Tag: Regional integration
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17 Oct 17 NewsAfrica Week 2017 is underway at the UN: update, downloads
SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement: updates from yesterday’s regional conference in Johannesburg. (i) Minister Davi...
Intra-African investments key for economic growth
13 Oct 17 NewsPresident Jacob Zuma says intra-African investments are critical to Africa’s future economic growth and South Africa is ready to contribute meaningfully to increase the levels of...
ESA-EU Interim EPA: Joint communiqué of the sixth meeting of the EPA Committee
13 Oct 17 NewsThe sixth meeting of the EPA Committee under the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (IEPA) between the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region and the European Union was held ...
Tripartite FTA signatures rise to 21 as Mauritius signs
10 Oct 17 NewsMauritius has signed the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement. This brings the total to 21 out of 26 countries that have signed the regional trade framework.
Minis...
IOM, IGAD assist East African states strengthen migration governance, migrants protection capacities
06 Oct 17 NewsIOM, the UN Migration Agency, with cooperation from the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD), organized a capacity building training from 18 to 29 September at IOM’...
COMESA’s trade potential pegged at over US$80bn
05 Oct 17 NewsThe current intra-regional trade in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is US$20 billion with a potential of over US$82.3 billion. This figure has risen from US$3.2 b...
Deeper and wider trade integration more beneficial for small businesses
05 Oct 17 NewsITC’s SME Competitiveness Outlook 2017 finds that deep regional integration generates more value-chain activity and helps improve SMEs’ competitiveness. Trade agreements w...
Sustainable Development Goals within an African context
26 Sep 17 PublicationsOn 25 September 2015, the United Nations adopted a set of goals focused on ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all as vital components of a new sustai...
Recommendations from the AU Boosting Intra-African Trade workshop
22 Sep 17 NewsThe USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub supported a “Boosting Intra-African Trade Workshop,” in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 13th-15th September, 2017 to strengthen k...
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19 Sep 17 NewsEvents, Thursday, in New York: (i) Flagship reforms for a more effective African Union: a conversation with Rwandan President Paul Kagame (Brookings Institution); (ii) Income inequ...
10th Session of the Committee on Regional Cooperation and Integration to focus on CFTA shared gains
19 Sep 17 NewsThe 10th Session of the Committee on Regional Cooperation and Integration (CRCI10) will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from October 31 to November 2, 2017, under the theme ‘Imp...
Ghana commits to ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol
19 Sep 17 NewsThe Government of Ghana is firmly committed to the implementation of the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, the Right of Residence and the Right of Establishment as well ...
African business leaders established the African Technical Business Advisory Committee (ATBAC)
18 Sep 17 NewsThe African business community has continued to present the unified voice of business by putting in place the framework establishing the African Technical Business Advisory Committ...
COMESA to recruit a new Secretary General in 2018
15 Sep 17 NewsThe Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa will appoint a new Secretary General next year (2018), through a competitive process.
With 19 countries, a geographical size of 1...
ICE 2017: ECA praised for “excellent initiative” in Central Africa
14 Sep 17 NewsCameroon’s Minister of Trade, Mr. Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, has described the upcoming meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts for Central Africa (ICE 2017) as...
Dti pushes ahead with localisation to boost domestic growth
13 Sep 17 NewsSouth Africa is working towards more effective monitoring and enforcement of localisation of products and compliance with local content requirements, Trade and Industry M...
2017 African Prosperity Conference on Business and the Continental Free Trade Area
13 Sep 17 NewsPrivate sector will succeed through implementation of CFTA – Ghana Trade Minister
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has assured that the private sector ...
Regional Dialogue on WTO Accessions for the Greater Horn of Africa: Nairobi Outcome
12 Sep 17 NewsFostering synergies and coherence between regional integration and the multilateral trading system through WTO accessions
1. Introduction
The Regional Dialogue on WTO Acces...
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06 Sep 17 NewsFeatured consultancy on the SADC Trade Protocol: TOR for sugar sector study
Forthcoming African trade and development events:
(i) 11th Joint Consultative meeting between AUPSC, U...
Better off together: how regional trade can best boost economic growth
06 Sep 17 NewsStrengthening economic cooperation among developing and developed countries will be examined during UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board meetings.
The impact regional integratio...