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Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in Africa at center of 32nd AU Summit

16 Jan 19 News

“Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa” is the theme that will be at the center of discussions during...

Towards a safe and orderly migration

18 Dec 18 News

A global migration compact may help combat the myth that migrants are liabilities In August 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Pri...

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13 Dec 18 News

IMF’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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12 Dec 18 News

Starting tomorrow: Ministerial Retreat, in Nairobi, on trade facilitation in the EAC: ministers are expected to adopt a declaration of policy objectives for a regional trade f...

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21 Nov 18 News

The WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body meets today: selected updates India asks WTO to set up panel against US for imposing higher duties on steel, aluminium. China, the EU, Mexi...

PAFoM IV calls on free movement of people to formalize trade across borders

21 Nov 18 News

The Fourth Pan African Forum on Migration (PAFoM IV) began on 19 November 2018 in Djibouti City under the theme ‘Harnessing the benefits of Free Movement of persons regime for su...

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13 Nov 18 News

Regional Risks for Doing Business 2018 (WEF) Of the 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that we surveyed, “unemployment and underemployment” was identified as the most pressing...

IOM Trends Analysis: Most Horn of Africa migrants move within region

13 Nov 18 News

Nearly 400,000 migrant movements were recorded in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia during the first six months of 2018 – an average of 2,000 or more individuals per day. It is an ...

Africa-Europe Partnership: A vision beyond migration

08 Nov 18 News

Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini during the S&D 2018 Africa Week This is the third important meeting that the [S&D – Socialists & Demo...

African economies sustain progress in domestic resource mobilisation

01 Nov 18 News

Africa 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...

Merkel looks to Africa to cement her legacy undermined by migration crisis

31 Oct 18 News

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged on Tuesday, 30 October 2018, a new development fund to tackle unemployment in Africa, a problem spurring the mass migration that has shaped ...

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27 Sep 18 News

Management of Africa’s global position must change: Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s UNGA address Let me start with a paradox. In no other region is the sense of trans-nat...

Climate change and multilateralism figure high on first day of UN General Assembly debate

26 Sep 18 News

Secretary-General calls for renewed commitment to rules-based order, reformed, reinvigorated, strengthened multilateral system If there was one issue that was a recurrent theme on...

Africa must look to internal migration to boost development

26 Sep 18 News

Ahead 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 ...

The EU’s bank in Africa steps up the action

18 Sep 18 News

Whether or not Jean-Claude Juncker’s plans for a “partnership of equals” with Africa becomes reality any time soon, the Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank will have an...

German minister pushes for free trade deal ahead of Africa trip

22 Aug 18 News

Germany’s development minister Gerd Müller is promoting a “customs-free trade deal in Africa” ahead of his seven-nation Africa visit. Experts say the real issues are being i...

Global migration can be a potent tool in the fight to end poverty across the world

15 Jun 18 News

High-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...

Migration in Africa plays growing development role, report reveals

31 May 18 News

A comprehensive analysis of population movement within Africa demonstrates it could have unexpected economic benefits and support development on the continent. African migration c...

COMESA-EAC-SADC Immigration Chiefs discuss free movement

25 May 18 News

Chiefs 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...

CFTA, migration & illicit financial flows discussed in Songwe’s meeting with African Ambassadors

28 Feb 18 News

Economic Commission for Africa’s Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, on Tuesday met with African Ambassadors in Ethiopia for their 19th quarterly briefing which touched on a number...