Experts urge for women's empowerment in Africa to realize development aspirations

ADDIS ABABA, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Experts have called on African countries to expedite efforts of women's empowerment so as to realize global development aspirations in Africa.

This came as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) hosted an expert group meeting that brought together policy specialists and academia to review its upcoming African Women's Report on costing the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, which dwells upon achieving gender equality and women's empowerment.