tralac’s Daily News Selection
15 Feb 19 NewsAfrican Union Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture: Continental strategy for Geographical Indications in Africa 2018-2023
The protection of GIs could give African coun...
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Fintech in Sub-Saharan Africa: A potential game changer
15 Feb 19 NewsMobile money has grown exponentially in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 10 years, making the region the global leader in mobile money innovation, adoption, and usage.
M-Pesa, the...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection: AU Summit review
12 Feb 19 NewsA guide to the AU Summit:
Outcomes, commentaries, side-events, country postings
South Africa deposited its AfCFTA instrument of ratification, as did Mauritania and Republic o...
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Kagame makes case for African digital identity
12 Feb 19 NewsPresident Paul Kagame has backed the on-going efforts by the African Union to further accelerate the adoption of digital identities, saying this would shore up citizen inclusion in...
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Africa’s youth ready for a digital future but leaders are lagging behind: Ramaphosa at WEF 2019
24 Jan 19 NewsIf Africa’s leaders do not act quickly to move the continent into the 21st century, young people will leave them behind, South Africa’s President Cyril M. Ramaphosa said today ...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection, with an Ethiopian special focus
21 Jan 19 NewsAfCFTA could be in force by mid-year: STC of the Ministers of Trade, Industry and Mineral Resources
The Rwandan Department of Trade and Industry last week held the 2nd Ordinary Se...
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Ethiopia: Ministry manoeuvres toward digital economy
21 Jan 19 NewsThe Ministry of Innovation and Technology is revising its 15-year-old policy in a bid to digitise the nation’s economy.
Revising the national science, technology and innovation ...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
18 Jan 19 NewsToday, in Geneva: Retreat of Ambassadors of Landlocked Developing Countries
South African patent lawyer, Ms Esmé du Plessis, has been appointed to serve on the WTO panel to rule ...
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Africa trade and technology
15 Jan 19 NewsIntroduction
It is perceived that economic nationalism has slowed the meteoric rise of global trade. Since the Uruguay Round created the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, tr...
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Economic transformation in Africa: key trends in 2019
15 Jan 19 NewsThe global economy is slowing down
The US-China trade war, global increases in sovereign debt, and weak 2018 stock market performance have all weakened prospects for economic grow...
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tralac’s final Daily News Selection 2018
18 Dec 18 NewsToday in Vienna: The High-Level Forum Africa-Europe
President Kagame and Chancellor Kurz decided to call for a High-Level Forum to provide a space for European and African leaders...
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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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tralac’s Daily News Selection
14 Dec 18 NewsAhead of Monday’s IMF conference, The future of work in sub-Saharan Africa, in Accra, Ghana: a podcast with Axel Schimmelpfennig
AfCFTA updates from this past week’s AMOT mini...
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Future of Africa e-commerce looks bright as Nairobi event ends
14 Dec 18 NewsFirst Africa eCommerce Week closes with UNCTAD issuing the Nairobi Manifesto on the Digital Economy and Inclusive Development in Africa.
Africa’s next steps on the path to engag...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
13 Dec 18 NewsIMF’s Chart of the Week: Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth is a tale of different experiences
President Trump’s new Africa strategy was unveiled today in Washington:
Remarks by A...
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Continental free trade area to boost e-commerce in Africa
13 Dec 18 NewsA high-level session at UNCTAD’s first Africa eCommerce Week showed that the continent has the potential to scale e-commerce enterprises – but its new free trade area will be k...
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Tear down barriers and African e-commerce will thrive, say CEOs
11 Dec 18 NewsParticipants at UNCTAD’s Africa eCommerce Week discover that e-commerce will flourish only when governments and businesses across the continent work together.
Barriers to domest...
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Digital Africa must make its mark, Nairobi e-commerce event hears
11 Dec 18 NewsUNCTAD’s Africa eCommerce Week in Nairobi, Kenya, focuses on what must be done to speed up the readiness of African countries to engage in and benefit from e-commerce.
Key findi...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
04 Dec 18 NewsSome keynote, Q1 2019, African trade policy discussions to diarise:
Trade Policy Review for the East African Community (20, 22 March 2019, Geneva). This will be the only Afric...
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ICC: Tax policy for the digital economy
04 Dec 18 NewsIn an era of unprecedented digital transformation, taxation of the digitalised economy is a leading topic on the global tax agenda
Proposals at regional and national level have en...
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