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Global perceptions key to competitiveness and foreign investment
07 Apr 2014Creating a favourable global perception of South Africa can go a long way to attracting foreign direct investment. As a result, government stakeholders would like to broaden the co...
read moreOn bumpy roads and rails
07 Apr 2014Unprecedented investments in Africa’s ground transpor-tation are hardly enough.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which sprawls over 905,000 square miles, is the ...
read moreNew era as one-stop-post starts at Tanzania and Kenya border
07 Apr 2014One-Stop-Border Post (OSBP) means placing border officials of two adjoining countries at each other’s adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffi...
read moreEU, Africa shift focus to trade
04 Apr 2014Trade, security and migration top the agenda at biggest summit ever staged by the EU.
Africa and the European Union have agreed that “it is time for a fundamental shift from aid...
read moreCompetitiveness and economic transformation – Africa’s imperative
04 Apr 2014Africa has recorded robust economic growth since 2001 with average gross domestic product (GDP) of 6.0 per cent that has outpaced the rest of the world, with potential for sus...
read moreNegotiations on the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement are moving forward
04 Apr 2014African high-level officials indicated recently that negotiations for the establishment of a free-trade area spanning three major regional economic communities in Africa have ...
read moreUhuru tells Africa to support infrastructure investment
03 Apr 2014President Uhuru Kenyatta has challenged African governments to accelerate reforms that will encourage more private sector investment in infrastructure projects.
Citing Kenya as an...
read moreFG: Why Nigeria scuttled the EU-ECOWAS trade deal
03 Apr 2014The federal government has stated that it declined endorsing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union because acting otherwise would have been inimical to t...
read moreCustoms Territory promising
03 Apr 2014Barely a month into the implementation of the Single Customs Territory (SCT), Uganda seems to have started reaping the fruits of the first pilot project.
During a press brief...
read moreSACU appoints new Executive Secretary
03 Apr 2014The South African Customs Union (SACU) council of ministers has recently appointed a Namibian national, Paulina Mbala Elago, to the position of SACU Executive Secretary.
SACU...
read moreEU-Africa summit to debate free trade
02 Apr 2014EU and African leaders from 80 states are poised to meet in Brussels for a two-day summit as a deadline for tariff-free trade agreements draws near. Presidents Jacob Zuma and Rober...
read moreEAC competition law yet to be enforced
02 Apr 2014Regulating competition in East the African Community bloc still faces challenges as some countries are not enforcing the relevant law, the East African Competitions Act 2006.
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read moreEmerging markets can manage evolving mix of global investors
02 Apr 2014The mix of investors in emerging markets stocks and bonds has evolved considerably over the past 15 years, which has made capital flows and asset prices in these countries mor...
read moreNew economic report urges Africa to build credible institutions to boost industrialization
01 Apr 2014African countries need to introduce credible industrial policies and promote effective industrial policy organizations to enhance the structural transformation of the continent, sa...
read moreEast African Common Market Scorecard 2014
01 Apr 2014The EAC Common Market Scorecard 2014 assesses progress toward the development of a common market in capital, services, and goods across the Partner States of the East Afr...
read moreEurope-Africa relations: Well-intentioned diplomatic disaster?
01 Apr 2014At the 4th EU-Africa Summit, a number of issues might push tensions high.
The 4th EU-Africa Summit takes place in Brussels on 2-3 April. For months, there seemed to be a...
read moreAfrica loses $60 billion annually through illicit financial flows – Mbeki
01 Apr 2014Monies for infrastructure and social amenities for the poor African population are being transferred to other countries via illicit financial flows.
A former South African Pr...
read moreDelegates debate scoring countries on regional integration
31 Mar 2014Mr. Rene Kouassi, Director of Economic Affairs, African Union Commission has urged experts this week to advance regional integration goals and move from ‘intergovernmentalism to ...
read moreCustoms experts reflect on rules of origins in the effort to establish the Continental Free Trade Area
31 Mar 2014The first African Union consultative meeting on Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) Rules of Origin kicked off today in the Senegalese capital. Convened at the initiative of th...
read moreSouthern African Customs Union (SACU) benchmarks with EAC
31 Mar 2014Senior officials from Southern African Customs Union (SACU) together with their counterpart EAC concluded a two-day meeting aimed at benchmarking similar activities, learn the...
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