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Morocco has been appointed to lead the Bureau of the 57th Session of the ECA’s Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development.
This decision was made unanimously during the opening day of the Expert’s Segment of the conference in Addis Ababa.
Zakaria El Harmiri, Head of the Multilateral African Affairs Division at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco, will occupy the post.
The first Vice Chair will be Cameroon, the second Benin and the third Kenya. The rapporteur will be Zimbabwe.
The outgoing chair, Zimbabwe’s Andrew Bvumbe, expressed support for Morocco’s leadership.
He highlighted Zimbabwe’s contribution over the past year, including its active collaboration with the secretariat to amplify Africa’s voice in significant global forums, such as the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the United Nations General Assembly, the High-level Working Group on the Global Financial Architecture, FfD4, and COP29.
The Kingdom of Morocco also agreed to host the next Conference of Ministers (CoM) in March 2026, under the theme “Growth through Innovation: Harnessing Data and Cutting-edge Technologies for Africa’s Economic Transformation.”
