Tag: Regional integration

A strategic planning and capacity development retreat on the role of African Regional Economic Communities (RECs)s in the Implementation of the First Ten Year Action Plan of the Af...

Featured tweet, @AfricaSweMFA: 26 countries represented at the Nordic-African FM meeting in Nigeria [this weekend]. Great discussions on peace and security, trade and gender equali...

Long seen as artificial barriers inherited from decolonisation, West African borders now lie at the heart of policies designed to encourage regional trade and combat political inst...

The African Union Commission (AUC), in collaboration with the Government of Niger, is organizing the sixth Meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) Negotiating Forum from ...

A strong set of event pointers, launches introduces today’s news selection: Today, is African Border Day: a message from AUC Peace and Security Commissioner, Ambassador Smail Ch...

African Border Day celebration 2017 Message from AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Smail Chergui (Algeria) Dear Fellow Africans, On the 7th of June 2017, we wil...

Continental Free Trade Area update: Conference of the African Union Ministers of Trade (5–16 June, Niamey) The objective of the 6th Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum...

Since the establishment of the East African Community (EAC), comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, the region has seen a steady strengthening of economic and poli...

Underway, in Arusha: EAC Sectoral Council Meeting on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment Today, in Addis: Arbitration in Ethiopia, East Africa, and beyond: prospects, possibil...

Think 20 Summit: Global Solutions (29-30 May, Berlin). Input by PwC’s Bob Moritz: The forces of globalisation, technology, and financial growth need to be reset for the future A...

The EAC presented for consideration Budget estimates for the Financial Year 2017/2018, totaling $110,130,183 to the East African Legislative Assembly Sitting in Arusha on 25 May 20...

Budget Vote Speech delivered by Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, in the National Assembly, 25 May 2017 It is my pleasure with Deputy Minister Masuku to table the B...

Kenya has been pivotal in global relations for a thousand years. In 1963, two years after I was born, Kenya gained its independence under my father Jomo Kenyatta. But Kenya has b...

To mark Africa Day 2017 why not explore the trade-related sections in the archives of the AU/OAU and the UNECA Underway, in Kempton Park: inaugural Joint Administration Committee ...

dti Budget Vote Address delivered by Dr Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry, in the National Assembly, 23 May 2017 In an input to the Portfolio Committee earlier this ...

Featured trade infographics: @ecn_africa: After years of stagnation, east Africa’s clothing industry has more than doubled its exports since 2009; @CB_CII: India’s major export...

African governments need to integrate entrepreneurship more fully into their industrialisation strategies This is according to the African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2017, released to...

Latest tralac Newsletter: Willemien Viljoen comments on Africa’s recent agricultural trade performance Just posted: Africans moved more freely in 2016, according to second ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with the African Union Commission and the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Africa, launched on Friday, May 19, 20...

As regional economic integration gathers pace in Africa, how can trade facilitation be leveraged to spur the economic growth and development necessary for its implementation? Is th...