Tag: African Union
Communique of the video-teleconference meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly of the AU Heads of State and Government with Chairpersons of the AU RECs
17 Jun 20 NewsHis Excellency, President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa, and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) convened a video-teleconference Meeting of the Bureau ...
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03 Jun 20 NewsThe AfDB has posted its North Africa Regional Integration Strategy Paper 2020-2026
The North Africa Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP-NA) 2020-2026 has been designed to su...
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25 May 20 NewsTrudi Hartzenberg: Some reflections on Africa Day 2020, COVID-19 and the AfCFTA
We will all remember Africa Day 2020. Africa Day, which we have been celebrating on 25 May each yea...
COVID-19 must enable a new Africa – President Ramaphosa
25 May 20 NewsAfrica has marked the 57th Africa Day amid the Coronavirus pandemic with African Union Chair, President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling on the continent to use the global crisis as a...
Africa Regional Integration Index says continent can build more resilient economies through integration
22 May 20 NewsThe second Africa Regional Integration Index (ARII 2019) was launched Friday by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank and the African Union Commiss...
African regional responses to COVID-19
19 May 20 NewsThere is widespread recognition that the novel coronavirus is a global challenge. In order to contain the virus and address its devastating secondary effects, global collective act...
Launching the African Approach on the Regional Consultation on the Global Forum on Migration and Development
18 May 20 NewsThe African Union Commission, through the Department of Social Affairs (DSA) and the Directorate of the Citizen and Diaspora Organizations (CIDO), launched the African Meeting of t...
President Cyril Ramaphosa hosts virtual meeting with AU Regional Economic Communities Chairs: Communiqué
29 Apr 20 NewsCommuniqué
His Excellency, President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa, and Chairperson of the African Union (AU), convened a teleconference Meeting of th...
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29 Apr 20 NewsThe Intra-Africa Trade Fair, scheduled to take place in Kigali in September this year, has been postponed to September 2021
President Ramaphosa, as Chair of the African Union, con...
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24 Apr 20 NewsPeter Fabricius: Africa’s free trade agreement gets locked down for the year (ISS, Daily Maverick)
The AfCFTA has become the latest in the many casualties of the devastating cor...
President Ramaphosa: Unified Africa can curb COVID-19
23 Apr 20 NewsOnly a unified and coordinated response offers Africa the best possible chance of containing the COVID-19 outbreak.
To achieve this, the continent’s leading business people will...
Newly sworn-in AfCFTA Secretary General, Wamkele Mene, undertakes to serve Africa with resolute determination
19 Apr 20 NewsSince the launch of the negotiations in Johannesburg in 2015, remarkable progress has been achieved largely because of the political will and commitment of the Assembly of Heads of...
AUC, Afreximbank, Afrochampions and UNECA Joint Communiqué on the Need for A Holistic and Coordinated Trade and Investment Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
18 Apr 20 NewsThe 2020 COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that is both unprecedented and with many ramifications. The Pandemic poses significant health and social risks to the entire globe. In...
Will COVID-19 derail AfCFTA start of trading?
18 Apr 20 NewsPreliminary Assessment and Recommendations by AfroChampions
In early March 2020 AfroChampions completed its AfCFTA Year Zero Report: an assessment and ranking of African governmen...
COVID-19: FAO and African Union commit to safeguarding food security amid crisis
17 Apr 20 NewsRegional body and UN agency join forces to minimize lockdown’s impact on continent where one in five goes hungry
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO...
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17 Apr 20 NewsAU-FAO ministerial meeting on the impacts of COVID-19 on food security in Africa
Co-convened, yesterday, by the FAO Director-General and the Chair of the AU STC on Agriculture, Ru...
AU Chair appoints Special Envoys to mobilise international economic support for continental fight against COVID-19
13 Apr 20 NewsThe Chairperson of the African Union, President of the Republic of South Africa His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr Donald Kaberuka, Mr Tidjane ...
How will the AfCFTA live up to all the Expectations?
13 Apr 20 PublicationsMany commentators expect (and argue) that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will be the harbinger of far-reaching and swift change in and for Africa. This continenta...
Recovery from the Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: What Role for Trade?
07 Apr 20 BlogThe economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on African countries will be known only after the situation is brought under control. There will be immediate shocks to livelihoods, a...
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06 Apr 20 NewsAfrican Union: Impact of the Coronavirus Covid-19 on the African economy
Based on the description of specific key indicators of the African economy three scenarios are constructed...