Tag: Free Movement
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19 Nov 18 NewsPan-African policy events starting today:
Africa Industrialization Week 2018 [ODI blog: Five new ways to promote African industriali-sation]
Workshop on Continental Tran...
Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area in Eastern Africa: From vision to action
09 Nov 18 News22nd Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of the Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa
In partnership with the Government of Rwanda, the United Nations Economic ...
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07 Nov 18 NewsReleased today: Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa – 2017
Extracts (pdf): Overall commitments to Africa’s infrastructure from all sources increased to $81.6bn in 2017 f...
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02 Nov 18 NewsTunisia’s Ms Aya Chebbi (31) has been appointed as the AU’s Youth Envoy. A brief bio is available here.
The World Bank has posted 25 Africa country Training for Reform analyse...
Launch of visa-on-arrival and E-visa arrangements for all African citizens entering Ethiopia
02 Nov 18 NewsRemarks by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat
I am pleased to be here today on the occasion of the official launching, by Ethiopia, of a visa-on-...
African economies sustain progress in domestic resource mobilisation
01 Nov 18 NewsAfrica has sustained gains in domestic resource mobilisation made since 2000, as tax revenues remained stable in 2016, according to Revenue Statistics in Africa 2018.
Providi...
Africa must look to internal migration to boost development
26 Sep 18 NewsAhead of the Global Compact on Migration to be signed by leaders in December, UNCTAD hosted a high-level panel on migration and economic transformation in Africa during the United ...
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24 Aug 18 NewsForum for China-Africa Cooperation: Africa still solidly in the crosshairs of China growth (Standard Bank)
When FOCAC was established in 2000, the rest of the world was perhaps be...
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16 Aug 18 NewsDiarise: Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Forum (25 October, Lagos). The Forum will also see the launch of TEFConnect, the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs...
Is Brexit now in the Emergency Ward?
31 Jul 18 BlogBrexit is due to happen on 29 March 2019 but there is no agreement yet on how the future relationship between the UK and the EU (the UK’s most important trading partner) will wor...
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23 Jul 18 NewsUnderway, in Nairobi: African Union E-Commerce Conference
The main expected outputs of the conference are: (i) Roadmap for the development of an African e-commerce strategy, which...
Global migration can be a potent tool in the fight to end poverty across the world
15 Jun 18 NewsHigh-income destination countries could realize even bigger gains with efficient labor market policies
Global migration has lifted millions out of poverty and boosted economic gro...
Rwanda deposits instruments of AfCFTA and Free Movement of people ratification
28 May 18 NewsRwanda on 26 May 2018 became the third nation on the continent to deposit the instruments of ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Rwanda also became the first ...
COMESA-EAC-SADC Immigration Chiefs discuss free movement
25 May 18 NewsChiefs of Immigration departments from the COMESA, EAC and SADC regions held a two-day meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss ways of introducing free movement of business persons...
AU Peace and Security Council on the African Migrants Crisis: Imperative for Expediting Free Movement Policy in Africa
21 May 18 NewsThe Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 771st meeting held on 11 May 2018, adopted the following decision on the African Migrants Crisis: Imperative ...
African Union will enhance Free Movement and Single Air Transport Market during the Extraordinary Summit on the AfCFTA in Kigali, Rwanda
20 Mar 18 NewsThe Extraordinary Summit on the African Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) held from 17-21 March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda, will serve as a platform for the African Union to sign into ex...
Kenya embraces the IGAD Regional Protocol on Free Movement of Persons
22 Feb 18 NewsKenya’s Cabinet Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Hon. Patrick Ole Ntutu launched the National Consultative Workshop towards the development of the Regional P...
Ghana commits to ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol
19 Sep 17 NewsThe Government of Ghana is firmly committed to the implementation of the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, the Right of Residence and the Right of Establishment as well ...
Free Movement of Persons to stimulate African regional integration
06 Sep 17 NewsThe implementation mechanism of a Draft Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons in Africa aimed at promoting regional integration across the continent was the focus of discussions...
AU on free movement of people and goods and its implications on peace and security in Africa
28 Feb 17 NewsThe Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 661st meeting held on 23 February 2017, at the ministerial level, adopted the following decision on Free...