Tag: COVID-19

A post-coronavirus recovery in Africa should address the fundamental causes of vulnerabilities and go beyond fiscal and monetary adjustments whose sole aim is to ensure the surviva...

Diarise: ECOWAS Ministerial meeting for the adoption of two new ECOWAS standards (25 June) The West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) has launched its official website. Th...

A special feature on the Kenya-USA FTA: The United States-Kenya Free Trade Area (FTA): insights into the bilateral trade relationship and early progress on setting terms for a...

The African Union Chairperson, Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, today launched the ‘Africa Medical Supplies Platform’ adopted as a single online marketplace to enabl...

Rebuilding Investor Confidence in Times of Uncertainty The damage has been done: COVID-19 has dealt the global economy its most severe blow since the Second World War, c...

As Africa braces itself for the peak in COVID-19 cases, the continent is launching the Africa Medical Supplies Platform, an innovative marketplace to enable all African governments...

Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19: selected highlights Joint Statement: extract We fully recognize the positive role of China-Africa investmen...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major challenge to humankind, and is the most serious global public health emergency since the end of World War II. To defeat COVID-19 through greater s...

Across sub-Saharan Africa, digital technologies are driving change – from kids learning to code outside Niger’s capital, to drones delivering medicines to remote communities in...

All industries on the continent are reeling from the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and low commodity prices, UNCTAD’s new report says. The trend of declining foreign d...

With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic crippling economies the world over and set to trigger into motion Africa’s first recession in 25 years, the Economic Commission for Africa a...

South Africa’s March 2020 trade data[1] showed that measures adopted by its global trade partners to curb the spread of COVID-19 mainly impacted South Africa’s imports. Main so...

An East African Budget Day special feature from tralac. The joint budget theme for the 2020/21 budgets: Stimulating the economy to safeguard livelihoods, jobs, businesses and indus...

The pandemic-induced crisis will have severe impacts on household incomes and industries in the region and requires swift policy actions.  The COVID-19 infection rates i...

UNCTAD and the five UN regional commissions join forces to help developing countries tackle trade and transport challenges from the coronavirus pandemic. A new joint UN project is...

Summary of government intervention measures and Deloitte insights The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is currently causing significant adverse impact on the global economy with go...

The EAC Secretariat in partnership with the African Union Border Programme is reinforcing the border officers and communities to reduce the risks for cross border transmission of t...

New data shows a worrying deterioration of trade for developing countries and a continued struggle for the automotive and energy sectors, while office equipment rebounds. Internat...

At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was predicted that most of the health systems in Africa and the COMESA region would be overwhelmed by the unprecedented spread of the viru...

President Cyril Ramaphosa, as the AU Chairperson, convened a virtual meeting of the African Union Bureau and RECS today to discuss, inter alia, the Africa COVID-19 pandemic strateg...