Tag: African Union
African Border Day: Message from AUC Peace and Security Commissioner Amb. Smail Chergui
07 Jun 17 NewsAfrican Border Day celebration 2017
Message from AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Smail Chergui (Algeria)
Dear Fellow Africans,
On the 7th of June 2017, we wil...
High Level Panel on Migration in Africa launched with Liberia’s Sirleaf as chair
07 Jun 17 News“Just last week, some forty young men and women died of thirst in the Sahara Desert, while trying to reach Europe. More than a thousand have perished in the Mediterranean Sea sin...
Conference of the African Union Ministers of Trade (AMOT) on the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA)
05 Jun 17 NewsThe African Union Commission (AUC) Department of Trade and Industry, in collaboration with the Government of Niger, is organising a Conference of the African Union Ministers of Tra...
13th CAADP Partnership Platform calls for stronger accountability on continental commitments on agriculture
05 Jun 17 NewsMeeting pushes for the realisation of the AU Malabo commitments on agriculture through mutual accountability for results and impact
African Union Member States have been urged to ...
What are the top 5 challenges Africa is facing?
01 Jun 17 DiscussionTarik Oguz, tralac Research Advisor – ICT, discusses the challenges facing African countries today and what needs to be done in order to address them
We observed another Africa ...
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31 May 17 NewsUnderway, in Arusha: EAC Sectoral Council Meeting on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment
Today, in Addis: Arbitration in Ethiopia, East Africa, and beyond: prospects, possibil...
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26 May 17 NewsFeatured newsletters: tralac, Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, West Africa Brief
Finishing today, in Mauritius: The Commonwealth’s African Regional Consultation on ...
The new self-financing Mechanism of the African Union: Can the proposed AU levy be a step towards financial independence?
25 May 17 DiscussionIn recognition of Africa Day 2017, Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the significant recent decision by the AU to adopt a new self-funding mechanism
Introduction
The...
UNDP Africa presents its latest knowledge products to the African Group of Ambassadors to the UN
23 May 17 NewsUNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa convened a high level event hosted by the African Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations on Tuesday, 16 May 2017.
Billed as a k...
Activities of the African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) related to the work of the WTO TBT Committee
23 May 17 NewsThis document contains a statement provided by the African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) at the TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) Committee meeting of 29-30 March 2017 un...
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22 May 17 NewsFeatured trade infographics: @ecn_africa: After years of stagnation, east Africa’s clothing industry has more than doubled its exports since 2009; @CB_CII: India’s major export...
Unlock the potential of African entrepreneurs for accelerating Africa’s industrial transformation, says the African Economic Outlook 2017
22 May 17 NewsAfrican governments need to integrate entrepreneurship more fully into their industrialisation strategies
This is according to the African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2017, released to...
Commonwealth African countries to discuss priorities for reviving world trade
22 May 17 NewsAmid an unprecedented global trade slowdown, African policy-makers, negotiators and trade analysts will meet on 25-26 May 2017 in Mauritius to discuss priorities for reviving world...
SA ‘working on scrapping visa for all African citizens’
16 May 17 NewsSouth Africa is working towards allowing all African citizens to enter the country without visas – but at first “trusted travellers” like diplomats, officials, academics, bus...
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10 May 17 NewsUnderway, in Kigali: the third Transform Africa Summit. Further details: conference website
Starting tomorrow, in Maputo: the 5th Annual African Mobile Phone Services Policy Initi...
Why the African Union must press ahead with a business and human rights policy
10 May 17 NewsThe African Union (AU) is developing a policy designed to hold companies to account by setting down guidelines on how they should conduct business on the continent.
The aim of th...
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09 May 17 NewsAfrica ponders challenges as WTO steps in way of AU self-financing model (New Times)
The WTO and the US government have written to a number of African Union member states on the l...
Africa ponders challenges as WTO steps in way of AU self-financing model
09 May 17 NewsThe World Trade Organisation and the US government have written to a number of African Union member states on the legality of the implementation of the new self-financing mech...
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08 May 17 NewsLater this week, in Addis: the Assessing Regional Integration in Africa VIII Expert Group Meeting (10-11 May)
Africa Integration Index: Fourth edition launched (Visa)
This index ...
Own AU reforms process – Kagame
08 May 17 NewsPresident Paul Kagame has called on African countries and regional economic communities to take ownership of the African Union reforms process to facilitate urgent implementation. ...