Tag: African Union

March 21st, 2018 marked a historical day for Africa in its vision to build an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa with the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agre...

The petition for the quick creation of a unique African passport is directed to African nationals from the continent and the diaspora and has been launched by the AfroChampions Ini...

AfCFTA special selection (2) Trade and development events to diarise: 2018 Spring Meetings of the IMF, WBG (16-22 April, Washington) 53rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governor...

South Africa is keen to sign the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on Monday. “South Africa wa...

AfroChampions Initiative commits USD 1 million on awareness-raising actions On the occasion of the AfCFTA Business Forum, the African Union and the AfroChampions Initiative have j...

Regional governments should move fast and expedite integration process to give the East African Community a competitive edge in the proposed continental free trade zone, the East A...

African trade policy events starting today: In Abidjan: Africa CEO forum; In Nairobi: Regional meeting on SPS collaboration, leasing and coordination in Eastern and Southern Afric...

Negotiating teams from countries that last week signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) deal will spend the first ten days of May in Addis Ababa to iron out outstan...

A key tool for monitoring the AfCFTA will be through a Country Business Index that was revealed at a Business Forum on the eve of the signing of the historic agreement. The UN Eco...

Mukhisa Kituyi was speaking at a business forum attended by Africa’s leaders a day before they signed into life the historic African Continental Free Trade Area Political declar...

Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the legal arrangements for the establishment of the AfCFTA The first two legal instruments for launching the African Continental Fre...

The text of the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) contains several provisions about how this new trade arrangement will co-exist with the Regi...

There is renewed interest (and excitement) about the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The first in a series of agreements to launch this continental trade arrangement ...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses how the AfCFTA can help address the challenge of non-tariff barriers faced by African traders Non-tariff barriers are some of the m...

The leaders of Africa’s 55 countries made history on 21 March 2018, when they come together in Kigali, Rwanda to sign an agreement that will launch the African Continental Free T...

Profiled trade and development events: Yesterday, in Kigali: 18th Executive Council Meeting of the Extraordinary Summit on AfCFTA Yesterday, in Addis: coordination meeting to pre...

Keynote Address by President Paul Kagame, Chairperson of the African Union, at the AfCFTA Business Forum A warm welcome to Kigali, and thank you all for being here today. I thank...

H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) underscored the need for Africa to speak with one voice as African Union member states embark on impleme...

The Extraordinary Summit on the African Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) held from 17-21 March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda, will serve as a platform for the African Union to sign into ex...

AfCFTA represents an opportunity for the EAC to get back on the saddle. A statesman once compared regional integration to riding a bicycle – you have to proceed in a forward dir...