Tag: African Union

Joint AfDB-AU-ECA-UNDP baseline report urges sustained commitment to reducing poverty and calls for upgrading the continent’s statistical capabilities to ensure and track future ...

Relations between the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) reached a nadir in 2016 following serious disagreements over European payments to AU peacekeepers in Somalia. The f...

Africa Week 2017 is underway at the UN: update, downloads SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement: updates from yesterday’s regional conference in Johannesburg. (i) Minister Davi...

“The international world must change the way it looks at Africa. Africa is a place of opportunity,” said Mr António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations during th...

Updated World Bank macro poverty outlook reports: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe AU’s STC on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning ...

The African Union Commission is organizing the Third Session of the Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration in Ad...

The 7th Meeting of the CFTA Negotiating Forum took place from 2nd – 7th October 2017 at the African Union (AU) Headquarters, in Addis Ababa. The meeting brought together Chief Ne...

The Single African Air Transport Market is to be launched during the January 2018 African Union Summit. In preparation for the launch, the Experts of the Ministerial Working Group,...

The African Transformation Report 2017 sets out a bold new agenda for African development, powered by a revolution in agriculture. The report unveils a radical program of reforms ...

Starting today, in Accra: The WIDER Development Conference on migration and mobility (jointly organized with the African Research Universities Alliance). Downloads: poster presenta...

In 2013, the African Union adopted Agenda 63, as a blueprint to propel the continent to prosperity within the next 50 years. As part of the agenda, African countries committed to ...

The African Union Commission is organizing the Seventh Meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) Negotiating Forum (CFTA-NF) from 02-07 October 2017 in Ethiopia. The Objec...

In the context of the African Union’s 50-year vision, Agenda 2063, this paper provides an analytical account and critical assessment of Africa’s strategic trade relations with ...

UNCTAD’s first Non-Tariff Measures Week concludes today in Geneva: an overview; an interview with Dr Manish Pande (Director of Quality Council of India) The WTO Public Foru...

On 25 September 2015, the United Nations adopted a set of goals focused on ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all as vital components of a new sustai...

Bridging Africa’s $68 billion infrastructure finance gap NEPAD Agency Continental Business Network gathered international investors and CEO-level business leaders at the New Yor...

The African Union (AU) Boosting Intra-African Trade (BIAT) Trade Information and Trade Finance Workshop was held at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Sal...

‘Africa needs the CFTA to prosper economically’ President of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nana Dr. Appiagyei Dankawoso I, has stated that Africa needs ...

At the backdrop of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, on 21st September 2017 in the Conference Room of the African Union Permanent Mission in New York (USA), Ministers of Tr...

The African Union Commission in collaboration with the Mauritius Revenue Authority organized the 3rd African Union Customs Experts’ Trade Facilitation Forum from 20-22 September ...