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08 Nov 19 News3rd Ordinary Session of the STC on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: updates, documentation
(i) AU member states urged to ratify the protoco...
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28 Oct 19 NewsDiarise: SheTrades Global (to be held in conjunction with the World Export Development Forum, 18-22 November, in Addis Ababa)
Themes that will be discussed include how free...
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23 Oct 19 NewsOECD’s 2019 Global Forum on Competition (5-6 December, Paris):
The profiled paper: Competition policy within the context of free trade agreements (pdf). This paper reports the ...
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19 Sep 19 NewsPwC's The Africa Business Agenda 2019: Kenya is top destination for companies seeking expansion in Africa
The study by global audit firm PwC, conducted among chief executives arou...
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16 Sep 19 NewsAfCFTA sensitisation workshops: Malawi, Kenya
Malawi to host AfCFTA sensitization workshops. The Ministry of Trade and Tourism, in partnership with the ECA and the AUC, is org...
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Movement of persons and migration in Africa: Considerations for African integration and the AfCFTA
28 Jun 19 PublicationsThe free movement of persons has an integral part to play in regional integration. Not only does it contribute to facilitating easier access to economic activities and opportunitie...
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03 Jun 19 NewsDiarise:
The Tripartite Sectoral Ministerial Committee (6 June, Addis Ababa)
African Ministers of Trade (AMOT) meeting (7-8 June, Addis Ababa)
Underway in Kigali: Af...
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30 May 19 NewsThe AfCFTA Agreement is now in force: selected perspectives
@AmbMuchanga: Historic milestone! AfCFTA Agreement has today come into force. We celebrate the triumph of bold, pragmat...
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09 Apr 19 NewsFeatured tweet, @EgyptAbaba: Few minutes ago, I officially deposited Egypt AfCFTA ratification instrument. Egypt is 18th depositor of the free trade area and four more to go to ent...
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07 Mar 19 NewsDiarise: The IDA19 replenishment process will be held in June, in Addis Ababa. A backgrounder on the IDA19 Replenishment
A preview of next Tuesday’s Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-Nat...
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32nd African Union Heads of State and Government Summit kicks off
11 Feb 19 NewsThe supreme organ of the African Union (AU), the Assembly, which comprises Heads of State and Government of all the 55 African countries, began its 32nd Ordinary Session on 10...
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EU-AU Ministers of Foreign Affairs Meeting: Joint Communiqué
28 Jan 19 NewsEurope and Africa are each other’s closest neighbours. What happens in Africa matters in Europe, and vice versa.
As equal partners with mutual interests, the two sides are worki...
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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...
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Towards a safe and orderly migration
18 Dec 18 NewsA 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 NewsIMF’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 NewsStarting 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 NewsThe 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...
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PAFoM IV calls on free movement of people to formalize trade across borders
21 Nov 18 NewsThe 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 NewsRegional 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...
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IOM Trends Analysis: Most Horn of Africa migrants move within region
13 Nov 18 NewsNearly 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 ...
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