Tag: AfCFTA

The Services Protocol to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement entered into force on 30 May 2019, along with the other parts of the consolidated text. However,...

Implementation of AfCFTA faces delay due to COVID-19 (Ghanaweb) Approval of phase one operational instruments required for the start of duty free trading within the Africa Contine...

The newly elected Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, H.E. Wamkele Mene swore in today as the first ever Secretary General (SG). The...

The AfCFTA and the US-Kenya Free Trade Agreement challenge: getting beyond divide-and-rule (Wilson Center’s African Program) Hardly had South African President Cyril Ramaphosa s...

Customs duty on e-transmissions: India, South Africa make new submission at WTO (Economic Times) India and South Africa have made a new submission at the WTO against the proposed ...

COVID-19: trade and REC updates South Africa: International Trade Administration Commissioner Meluleki Nzimande told Fin24 that the trade administration body would follow the...

TradeMark East Africa and the UNECA released their joint report – Creating a unified regional market: Towards the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area in Eas...

South Africa’s WTO ambassador Ms Xolelwa Mlumbi-Peter has been elected as the 2020 chair of the Council for TRIPS. Lesotho’s Mr Refiloe Litjobo will chair the Committee on Bala...

@AUTradeIndustry: update on the AfCFTA negotiations The 8th meeting of the AfCFTA Technical Working Group on Trade in Services began today in Addis. It is an opportunity for AU me...

Towards the socioeconomic transformation of Africa through job creation – the role of the social partners The 6th African Social Partners’ Summit took place on 25-26 Febr...

How emerging markets will shape Africa in 2020 (WEF) In recent years, Sub-Saharan Africa has increasingly traded old friends, like the US and the European Union, for new ones in e...

Kimberly Ann Elliott: Would a US-Kenya trade deal throw African integration off course? (WPR) But a bilateral deal with the US will make it harder to bring the AfCFTA to fruition....

Why the need for a pharmaceutical initiative anchored on the AfCFTA? Extracts from the technical paper prepared for the Third Africa Business Forum (UNECA) This innovative AfCFTA-...

Digitisation has contributed to a changing trade environment in many ways – facilitating multinational value chains, enabling the rise of the micro-multinational and giving us ne...

Posted by the AU: 2nd biennial review report on the implementation of the Malabo Declaration AfCFTA: How prepared is Africa for July 1st? (CNBC Africa) The Commissioner for Trade...

Speech delivered at the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union I stand before you immensely humbled by this great honour ...

AU Summit updates: Featured tweet by Prudence Sebahizi (Head of AfCFTA Interim Secretariat): Congratulations to HE Mr Wamkele Mene, SG of the AfCFTA Secretariat. Young and vibrant...

The shortlisted candidates for General Secretary of AfCFTA: Nigeria’s Cecilia Akintomide has served as a former VP and General Secretary of the of the AfDB; South ...

Call for papers: Harnessing intra-COMESA trade through the interface with the African Continental Free Trade Area. Selected papers will be peer reviewed and considered for publicat...

Makhtar Diop: SSATP’s new phase is ready to deliver (World Bank) For over 30 years, SSATP has been helping African countries build the underlying and enabling “invis...