Tag: RECs

On 15 June 2015, the African Union Assembly launched the negotiations to establish the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017. Experience of existing Free Trade Areas (FTAs)&nb...

Ministerial Conference The Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Pla...

A question of capacity Discussions for the UN Agenda 2030 have set high expectations for domestic resource mobilisation as a self-sustaining development finance strategy. Agenda 2...

The Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC) held a press briefing on 27 January 2016 on the margins of the 26th African Union Summit of Heads of S...

Members of African Union (AU) Executive Council converged in the Tigray region of Mekelle, on 24 January 2016, within the framework of their third Ministerial Retreat, holding unde...

Although the idea that Africa’s next stage in development requires industrialization is decades old, the current process of linking industrialization to the continent’s trade r...

Representatives from Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and the African Union Border Programme (AUBP) met in Zambia to discuss Border Management in Africa. This was the second m...

The technical meeting of the African Union Commission (AUC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on the convergence of Mo...

A regional integration agenda has been part of Africa’s strategy for economic transformation for more than three decades, and in some cases for almost a century. African leaders...

Request for observer status by the African Organization for Standardization (ARSO) to the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade: Submission from Uganda The delegation ...

Speakers praised the African Union’s ambitious 50-year “Agenda 2063”, which together with its first 10-year implementation plan, the Addis Ababa funding scheme, and the ...

The Foundation of Africa Union Agenda 2063 Fifty years after the first thirty-three (33) independent African states gathered in Addis Ababa to form the Organization of African Uni...

Understanding the opportunities and challenges and making the African Maritime a reality is a must, if Africa aspires to a better and secured future in the context of Agenda 2063. ...

African countries’ trading relationships have been changing in recent years. Trade with their traditional trading partners, the European Union and the United States (their ‘old...

The TICAD VI High-Level pre-event was held on the margins of the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA, on 28 September 2015. The objective was to discuss Afri...

This paper discusses the possibilities for including suitable trade remedies provisions as part of the Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), which will be negotiated in order to...

The Heads of State and Government of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) met ...

We, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, having met at our Twenty Fifth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 14 to 1...

Heads of State and Government of the 54 member states of the African Union (AU) met in Johannesburg, South Africa from the 14th to 15th June. The Assembly meeting was the last in t...

Preparatory to the 2017 establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in Africa, three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) – the Common Market for Eastern and Southern A...