Tag: African Union

African Union Ministers of Finance, Planning, Economic Development and Integration concluded their 9th annual meeting on 5th April 2016 with a strong call for the domestication of ...

The Seventeenth Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) for Africa kicked off on 2nd April 2016 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Conference...

The Africa We Want – A Shared Strategic Framework for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development Over the past 50 years (1963-2013) Africa focused her collective on ...

Report prepared for the Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Financ...

Regional Economic Communities (RECs) from the African continent led by the African Union and other strategic continental institutions have concluded talks on the 10 year implementa...

The African Economic Community (AEC) was established by the Abuja Treaty (1991) as an integral part of the African Union (AU). One of its objectives is to promote economic, so...

Ministerial Conference The Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Pla...

Connecting Africa through Political Leadership Foreword by His Excellency, President Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa and PICI Chairperson Over the...

A question of capacity Discussions for the UN Agenda 2030 have set high expectations for domestic resource mobilisation as a self-sustaining development finance strategy. Agenda 2...

The Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC) held a press briefing on 27 January 2016 on the margins of the 26th African Union Summit of Heads of S...

Addis Ababa, 29 January 2016 Today, on behalf of the NEPAD Agency, I have had the privilege to address a speech to the 34th NEPAD HSGOC in Addis Ababa. I have presented some ...

Members of African Union (AU) Executive Council converged in the Tigray region of Mekelle, on 24 January 2016, within the framework of their third Ministerial Retreat, holding unde...

Although the idea that Africa’s next stage in development requires industrialization is decades old, the current process of linking industrialization to the continent’s trade r...

Ties between China and Africa are expected to strengthen as the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) summit commences today, 4 December 2015. The historic event, the first t...

The African Union Commission (AUC) hosted a workshop on modalities for trade in services negotiations for the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) at the Newlands Sun Hotel in Cape T...

The technical meeting of the African Union Commission (AUC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on the convergence of Mo...

A regional integration agenda has been part of Africa’s strategy for economic transformation for more than three decades, and in some cases for almost a century. African leaders...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, provides an update on the state of play in the EPA negotiations between the European Union and African regions An Economic Partnership Agreement...

Speakers praised the African Union’s ambitious 50-year “Agenda 2063”, which together with its first 10-year implementation plan, the Addis Ababa funding scheme, and the ...

The Foundation of Africa Union Agenda 2063 Fifty years after the first thirty-three (33) independent African states gathered in Addis Ababa to form the Organization of African Uni...