Tag: African Union

“Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa (2016-2025): From Political commitments to actions on the ground” – 21 September 2017, New York One of the biggest ...

In this week’s tralac’s e-Newsletter: Talkmore Chidede discusses a recent suit filed by Zimbabwe invoking the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol Yesterday’s African Union ...

The USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub supported a “Boosting Intra-African Trade Workshop,” in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 13th-15th September, 2017 to strengthen k...

While much of Africa has achieved impressive economic growth, United Nations officials on Thursday, 21 September 2017 encouraged countries on the continent to take further action t...

President Paul Kagame who is currently leading the African Union reforms process called for support towards the initiative noting that a more effective and efficient African Union ...

How can African negotiators and policymakers ensure that the CFTA will be successful? With the imminent release of the latest edition in the Assessing Regional Integration in Afric...

African statements to UNGA’s debate: updated resource page Starting today, in Mauritius: 3rd AU Customs Expert Trade Facilitation Forum. The Forum will develop a set of recommen...

The African Union Commission in collaboration with the Government of South Africa organized a Special Meeting of African Union Ministers of Trade, on 18 September 2017 in Addis Aba...

African Ministers of Trade on Monday met in Ethiopia on priority issues for the continent in the current Doha Development Round. The Ministers used their gathering to also discuss...

Today, in Addis: Informal meeting of AU Ministers of Trade The main objectives of the meeting are to: (i) take stock of recent developments in the negotiations at the WTO since th...

The African business community has continued to present the unified voice of business by putting in place the framework establishing the African Technical Business Advisory Committ...

Featured trade finance tweet, from @AUTradeIndustry: In 2014, SMEs constituted more than 80% of enterprises in Africa, but they accounted for only 28% of banks’ trade finance po...

The African Union Commission, in partnership with USAID, is hosting a Workshop on Trade Finance and Trade Information in Africa in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, from ...

Private sector will succeed through implementation of CFTA – Ghana Trade Minister The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has assured that the private sector ...

Featured consultancy on the SADC Trade Protocol: TOR for sugar sector study Forthcoming African trade and development events: (i) 11th Joint Consultative meeting between AUPSC, U...

The implementation mechanism of a Draft Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons in Africa aimed at promoting regional integration across the continent was the focus of discussions...

Concept Note for the launch of the 5% campaign, 18 September 2017 in New York At the 18th ordinary African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2012, the African Heads...

Statement by Ambassador Albert M. Muchanga, African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry, at the opening ceremony of the 16th AGOA Forum Lomé, Togo, 8-10 August 2017 I...

Profiled tweet, @jattamensah: In Addis on 9/8/17, @_AfricanUnion finance ministers agreed to meet financing targets set in 2015 by 2020 Finance Ministers of the AU Member States: ...

African Union Finance Ministers met from 7-9 August 2017 to accelerate implementation of the decisions of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government in Johannesburg (2015), Kig...