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The Commission’s journey with the seven countries it covers in the subregion (Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe) with an extension of its services to the rest of ECCAS, started in 1962. This was just four years after its headquarters was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (in 1958) by the UN’s Economic and Social Council.</p> <p>ECA’s current mandate is to promote economic and social development of its member States by delivering cutting-edge ideas and prompting action for an empowered and transformed Africa; informed by the 2030 Agenda and African Union’s Agenda 2063. The Commission’s special focus in Central Africa, is to foster economic diversification and structural transformation for inclusive and sustainable development. 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