Tag: Intra-Africa trade

There is cause for celebration following the meeting in Cairo of 26 African heads of state representing the countries that make up the three major trading blocs on the continent ...

African airlines have called for greater intra-regional trade, better connectivity and more carrier cooperation if they are to take advantage of the continent’s potential, delega...

President Jacob Zuma says African countries are already working together to remove red tape that hinders intra-African trade. The President said while doing business in the contin...

The International Data Corporation (IDC) anticipates that 2015 will see closer intra-Africa trade facilitated by ICT initiatives such as payment systems, financial inclusion initi...

African Heads of States and Governments recognize the potential contribution of tourism to the growth and transformation of the continent, given that Africa is endowed with rich an...

Progress will come when agreements are implemented Among Africa’s policy wonks, underperforming trade across the continent is a favoured subject. To unravel the puzzle, they ree...

Africa's economic growth has been tremendous over the past decade with seven of ten of the world's fastest-growing countries coming from the continent, according to the United Nati...

Data released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics following the recent rebasing of the country’s Gross Domestic Product shows that the Nigerian economy is much more diversi...

Growth in intra-Africa trade is outpacing trade between Africa and rest of the world. However, more needs to be done to boost intra-African trade to take advantage of the increasin...

President Jacob Zuma says the African heads of state have prioritised tackling infrastructure bottlenecks to enable intra-Africa investment to happen in a bid to boost the continen...

The historically low levels of intra-African trade have made Africa vulnerable to external economic shocks and have fostered a dependency on the rest of the world. As a result of t...

Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, discusses the rationale for boosting intra-African trade This past weekend saw African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa for the 18th African Union ...

tralac has been collaborating with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) in South Africa during the past year on a project which focuses on the proposed Tripartite Fre...