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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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Africa-Europe Partnership: A vision beyond migration
08 Nov 18 NewsSpeech 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...
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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...
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Merkel looks to Africa to cement her legacy undermined by migration crisis
31 Oct 18 NewsGerman 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 NewsManagement 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...
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Climate change and multilateralism figure high on first day of UN General Assembly debate
26 Sep 18 NewsSecretary-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...
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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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The EU’s bank in Africa steps up the action
18 Sep 18 NewsWhether 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...
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German minister pushes for free trade deal ahead of Africa trip
22 Aug 18 NewsGermany’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...
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