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18 Apr 17 NewsVera Songwe, a Cameroonian economist and banking executive, is the new UNECA Executive Secretary. Ms Songwe has been working as the International Finance Corporation’s regional d...
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29 Mar 17 NewsToday, in Pretoria: SADC Ministers of Labour and Home Affairs are gathered for ‘2017 Regional Conference on Migration Initiatives’. Featured tweet, @IOMROpretoria: Half of SADC...
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24 Mar 17 NewsThe Africa Development Week opens in Dakar with a clarion call for policies that cater for youth
Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone: Youths get network for sub-regional trade
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23 Mar 17 NewsFeatured tweet, by AUC Deputy Chairperson, Amb. Kwesi Quartey: Conference of Ministers is going to be a heavy but interesting agenda for the next couple of days,with frank conve...
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SADC seeks investment in energy
22 Mar 17 NewsSouthern Africa will soon convene a special conference to present its multi-billion-dollar energy infrastructure development plan to potential funders.
SADC Council of Ministers c...
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20 Mar 17 NewsToday, at the WTO: MIKTA Trade and Investment Workshop
Starting today, in Accra: AU Protocol on Free Movement of Persons in Africa: meeting of Member States Legal Experts (20...
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14 Mar 17 NewsThe AERC Senior Policy Seminar XIX, on the theme of Industrialization in Africa (pdf), ends today in Abidjan. Today’s sessions cover regional industrialisation in Africa, financi...
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Policy options for Nigeria’s recovery, growth
13 Mar 17 NewsNigeria’s economy thought leaders bared the hard facts to rescue the economy from recession. Below are the key contents of their presentations at the Vanguard Economic Discourse,...
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Leveling the playing field: A new atlas transforms access to legal data in Africa
13 Mar 17 NewsA comprehensive legal framework is crucial for the proper governance of Africa’s mining sector. However, access to and knowledge of the evolving legislation of many African count...
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08 Mar 17 NewsMultimedia: Rwanda’s Paul Kagame – ‘All Africans want integration’ (Wall Street Journal)
State of Women’s Right in Africa (AU)
In Africa, women continue to be denied fu...
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South Africa: Economy shrinks in the fourth quarter of 2016
07 Mar 17 NewsA fall in mining and manufacturing production in the final quarter of 2016 pulled South African economic growth into negative territory, according to preliminary figures of gross d...
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28 Feb 17 NewsCFTA negotiations update, @CK_Knebel: H.E. Acyl @AUTradeIndustry opens CFTA workshop on tariff modalities & thanks @UNCTAD for support & highlights proposed joint work on N...
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24 Feb 17 NewsDiarise:
Trade Out of Poverty @APPG_TOP: Next month, we’re partnering with @DFID_UK to host a high level roundtable on “Africa & the TFA: from ratification to...
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Is Trump’s plan to repeal conflict minerals rule a gift for Rwanda?
20 Feb 17 News
Rwanda is counting on US President Donald Trump coming good on his intention to suspend a law that bars companies from handling conflict minerals to save the country more than $4...
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Madagascar: the trade policy and performance profile
16 Feb 17 PublicationsThis paper examines the trade profile and performance of Madagascar, focusing on the period since 2001. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO, 2015), Madagascar is slowly ...
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ICGLR Declaration on Section 1502 of the US Dodd Frank Act
15 Feb 17 NewsThe Conference Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has been following the debate on Section 1502 of the Dodd Frank Act with greatest atten...
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08 Feb 17 NewsFrom tralac’s roundtable, yesterday, on global, African, and South African trade and trade-related developments: the background paper, by Taku Fundira
CFTA negotiations update: ...
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Tackling illicit financial flows – can Africa rise to the challenge?
08 Feb 17 NewsAt this year’s Africa Mining Vision day, some of Africa’s most influential mining industry leaders and government counterparts debated strategies to counter Illicit Financial F...
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07 Feb 17 NewsToday in Cape Town: tralac is hosting a regional roundtable to consider global, African, and South African trade and trade-related developments of the past year and prospects for 2...
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06 Feb 17 NewsToday in Gaborone: Botswana’s Budget 2017/18
President Paul Kagame: address on AU reform issues at Heads of State and Government retreat (GoR)
The previous landmark studies of ...
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