The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has announced that about 3,000 young female Africans between 12 and 25 years will be trained to “develop coding and other cognitive skills for solving the continent’s contemporary problems, closing gender gaps and fighting poverty”.

In a statement on Friday, the UNECA said it has organised the initiative dubbed “the Connected African Girls Coding Camp”, in partnership with the Cameroon government, UNWOMEN, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and UNESCO.