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26 Aug 19 NewsVictor Harison, Mario Pezzini: Firms must drive Africa’s transformation (Project Syndicate)
But if the AfCFTA is to fulfill its promise, African firms will need to prepare for a...
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16 Jul 19 NewsKenya: Ruto, Raila jointly launch national export strategy (The Standard)
Deputy President William Ruto and Opposition chief Raila Odinga yesterday launched a national export stra...
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05 Jul 19 NewsToday’s featured commentary, David Pilling (Financial Times Africa Editor): Are tech companies Africa’s new colonialists?
Ghana appears to have won the bid to host the AfCFTA ...
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14 Jun 19 NewsTanzania’s President Magufuli will assume the chairmanship of SADC in mid-August. Important dates to note: Fourth SADC Industrialization Week (22-26 July, Dar es Salaam); SADC Co...
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07 May 19 NewsNew commentaries on the AfCFTA:
tralac’s Gerhard Erasmus: The institutional design of the AfCFTA. Why do international trade arrangements have their own institutions? What ...
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18 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA ratification update: Cameroon assures ECA that it will ratify Africa’s Free Trade Area Agreement
“Cameroon will ratify the AfCFTA,” the country’s Prime Minister, Jo...
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16 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA update: The Gambia, today, deposited its instruments of ratification for the AfCFTA with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, becoming the 20th country to do so....
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26 Mar 19 NewsThe AU has posted the TOR for the proposed African Labour Migration Advisory Committee (pdf). It is one of the agenda items at next week’s Specialised Technical Committee on Soci...
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Tax reform, digitization key to financing Africa’s development – ECA report
23 Mar 19 NewsA new report by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) says it is urgent for African countries to broaden and deepen their tax and revenue collection bases while leveraging di...
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15 Mar 19 NewsDiarise: Canada Africa Business Conference (26-27 March, Gaborone)
Nigeria’s PEBEC launches innovative public service feedback, complaints platform to drive Ease of Doing Busine...
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12 Mar 19 NewsCOMESA’s tribute to the late Ambassador Julius Onen, the PS of Uganda’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives
UNCTAD is undertaking an Investment Policy Review of Angol...
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07 Mar 19 NewsDiarise: The IDA19 replenishment process will be held in June, in Addis Ababa. A backgrounder on the IDA19 Replenishment
A preview of next Tuesday’s Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-Nat...
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There is a time for everything: the African Continental Free Trade Area
06 Mar 19 NewsRemarks by Dr. Donald Kaberuka at the 23rd East Africa Law Society Annual Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, 30 November 2018
Thank you and Good Morning.
It is a pleasure to be here.&...
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AUC calls for a strong public-private collaboration in the mineral resources sector for the attainment of the AfCFTA
08 Feb 19 NewsThe Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC) participated in the Mining Indaba 2019 from 4-7 February 2018 in Cape Town. The Mining Indaba is the...
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06 Feb 19 NewsUnderway, in Monrovia: Network of Economic Journalists of West Africa meeting on AfCFTA
Diarise: 3rd German-African Business Summit (11-13 February, Accra)
African Mining Indaba:...
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04 Feb 19 NewsFeatured African trade policy tweet, from @DavidLukeTrade: This is very significant and underscores momentum behind AfCFTA. Ethiopia has always been wary of trade agreements, not i...
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With $100 million Afreximbank commitment, Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA) positions to support African businesses
04 Feb 19 NewsThe operationalization of the newly-created Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA) moved into high gear on Sunday with the holding of the pre-incorporation meeting of the Boa...
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ICEA 2019: The concretization of an African private sector
24 Jan 19 NewsThe prioritization of development constraints in Africa is propelling the private sector among the key sectors that can pull both growth and political will by balancing the power r...
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EAC still on the right track, says Secretary General
21 Jan 19 NewsThe East African Community (EAC) Secretary General, Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko, has said the region is without doubt,on the right track with significant achievements registered in 2018...
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Cooperation with Africa on an equal footing: Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at High-Level Forum Africa-Europe
18 Dec 18 News“We now have to change the way we look at Africa. We must not think exclusively of poverty, the threat of migration and a lack of respect for human rights. What is required now a...
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