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15 Oct 19 NewsConcluding today, in Lusaka: CII-Exim Bank Regional Conclave on India-Southern Africa Project Partnership
A guide to the WB/IMF 2019 Annual Meetings (which concludes on Sunday)
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10 Oct 19 NewsAfrica’s Pulse (World Bank)
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic performance has remained sluggish, hampered by persistent uncertainty in the global economy and the slow pace of refo...
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27 Sep 19 NewsReporting African trade and industrialization trends, dynamics: media workshops in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Addis Ababa
(i) Next week in Johannesburg: ECA's AfCFTA Med...
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25 Sep 19 NewsTributes continue to pour in following the death of Nigeria's chief trade negotiator and one of the AfCFTA's architects, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe. A selection:
(i) Dav...
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10 Sep 19 NewsProfiled EAC trade and regional integration policy events starting today:
EAC experts meeting on the AfCFTA
Extraordinary meeting of the Sectoral Council on Trade, Investment, Fi...
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22 Aug 19 NewsThe East African Business Council convened a workshop today in Nairobi to review the EAC’s Common External Tariff. Selected tweeted highlights:
@KEPSA_KENYA: The workshop is exp...
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14 Aug 19 NewsTwo commentaries on intra-African trade,
pointing to the potential impact of the AfCFTA:
Global Trade Review’s (GTR) Africa trade briefing: Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis...
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“EAC Staff desert stations over pay”: EAC Press Statement – Clarification of issues
14 Aug 19 NewsOur attention has been drawn to issues raised in a story by The East African Newspaper edition of 10th – 16th August, 2019 headlined “EAC Staff desert stations over pay”.
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05 Aug 19 NewsThe Ministerial Session of the 2019 AGOA Forum began to today in Abidjan: selected updates
The theme of this year’s Forum is AGOA and the Future: Developing a new trade para...
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Uganda: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
25 Jul 19 ResourceIntra-Africa trade profile for 2018
In 2018, Uganda exported and imported goods to the value of US$1.6 billion and US$1.4 billion, respectively to and from the rest of Africa. Int...
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Tanzania: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
25 Jul 19 ResourceIntra-Africa trade profile for 2018
Tanzania’s trade composition with Africa is relatively concentrated in a few products in terms of exports while relatively diversified when i...
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The Development of REC Community Law: The EAC Court of Justice makes an important Contribution
12 Jul 19 PublicationsWhen the internal legal order of a particular regional integration arrangement is described as being based on “Community Law”, it typically means an advanced level of integrati...
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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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20 Jun 19 NewsDiarise: UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report will be released next Wednesday (26 June) on the theme Made in Africa: rules of origin for enhanced intra-African trade
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11 Jun 19 NewsThe AfDB’s 2019 Annual Meetings opened today in Malabo on the theme Regional Integration for Africa’s Economic Prosperity. AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said the bank had inv...
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07 Jun 19 NewsSelected resources, previews of this weekend’s G20 Trade Ministerial in Japan:
The IMF’s G20 Surveillance Note, other IMF G20 resources; Asia Times: G20 finance ministers lan...
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Conclusion of the Bilateral Tariff Negotiations between SACU and the EAC
07 Jun 19 NewsPress release
The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA), which was launched on 10th June 2015, aims to establish a single market for 27 African countries with a co...
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28 May 19 NewsThe AU, CoDA multi-stakeholder dialogue on implementing the AfCFTA concludes today in Addis Ababa. For insights on debates: @AUTradeIndustry, #coda4afcfta, #auccoda
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15 May 19 NewsAfrican trade events to diarise:
Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2020 (1-7 September 2020, Kigali)
World Export Development Forum 2019 (18-22 November 2019, Addis Ababa)....
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East African Private sector discusses their contribution to the AfCFTA
10 May 19 NewsEABC charts out ways to leverage on the AfCFTA
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) isn’t simply a ‘Free Trade Agreement’; it’s about establishing a unified co...
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