Tag: EAC
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30 Apr 20 NewsAfrican leaders mull 2021 as AfCTA’s new take-off date (This Day)
The Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat, Mr Wamkele Mene, spoke during a webinar on the “Political ec...
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28 Apr 20 NewsDiarise: South Africa’s March merchandise trade statistics will be released on Thursday
Selected submissions to the US Trade Representative ahead of negotiations on the proposed...
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15 Apr 20 NewsThe ECA’s African Trade Policy Centre is conducting a short COVID-19 Africa Impact Survey to provide insights into the economic effects of COVID-19 on economic activity and trade...
EAC Secretariat urges Partner States to prepare economic recovery plans for the time after COVID-19
15 Apr 20 NewsThe COVID-19 global pandemic is not only a major health crisis that challenges health systems across the globe. It has far reaching ramifications on economies worldwide. The medium...
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14 Apr 20 NewsEAC Heads of State will convene an extraordinary virtual summit, tomorrow, to discuss the coronavirus pandemic
EAC Secretariat urges partner states to prepare post COVID-19 recove...
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11 Mar 20 NewsUganda to petition EAC on milk export blockade (Daily Monitor)
Uganda and Kenya, have for three months now bickered over milk exports with Kenya announcing last week it would not ...
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05 Mar 20 NewsTradeMark East Africa and the UNECA released their joint report – Creating a unified regional market: Towards the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area in Eas...
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02 Mar 20 NewsIGAD protocol on free movement of persons endorsed at ministerial meeting (IGAD)
Ministers in charge of Internal Affairs and those in charge of Labour of Member States of the Inte...
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25 Feb 20 NewsStarting tomorrow: Gabon’s AfCFTA national awareness and sensitization forum
Postponed: The 21st ordinary meeting of the Summit of the EAC Heads of State
The 21st Ordinary Mee...
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21 Feb 20 NewsHow emerging markets will shape Africa in 2020 (WEF)
In recent years, Sub-Saharan Africa has increasingly traded old friends, like the US and the European Union, for new ones in e...
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27 Jan 20 NewsDiarise:
Burundi’s National Trade Facilitation Committee meeting (28-31 January, Bujumbura)
Indian Ocean Rim Association experts’ meeting on intra-regional trade and ...
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24 Jan 20 News10th meeting of African Ministers of Trade (14 December 2019, Accra): Declaration on WTO issues
The following communication (dated 21 January 2020) is being circulated to del...
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02 Dec 19 NewsThe African Economic Conference 2019 began today in Sharm el-Sheikh. The theme: Jobs, entrepreneurship and capacity development for African youths. Concept note (pdf):
Specificall...
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27 Nov 19 NewsEAC Trade and Investment Report 2018: Accelerating market-driven integration
This report is structured in three parts, covering four chapters. Part One includes the backgroun...
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15 Nov 19 NewsNigeria to form border force with neighbors Benin and Niger to fight smuggling (Reuters)
Nigeria and neighboring countries Benin and Niger have agreed to set up a joint border pat...
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21 Oct 19 NewsDiarise:
EAC Regional Meeting on Trade Facilitation (22-25 October, Dar es Salaam). The meeting, under the leadership of the EAC Secretariat with the participation of the Chai...
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15 Oct 19 NewsConcluding today, in Lusaka: CII-Exim Bank Regional Conclave on India-Southern Africa Project Partnership
A guide to the WB/IMF 2019 Annual Meetings (which concludes on Sunday)
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10 Oct 19 NewsAfrica’s Pulse (World Bank)
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic performance has remained sluggish, hampered by persistent uncertainty in the global economy and the slow pace of refo...
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27 Sep 19 NewsReporting African trade and industrialization trends, dynamics: media workshops in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Addis Ababa
(i) Next week in Johannesburg: ECA's AfCFTA Media Hub...
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25 Sep 19 NewsTributes continue to pour in following the death of Nigeria's chief trade negotiator and one of the AfCFTA's architects, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe. A selection:
(i) Dav...