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31 Jul 18 NewsDiarise: 5th COMESA Research Forum (6-10 August, Nairobi)
The 3rd Annual SADC Industrialisation Week began yesterday in Windhoek: an overview
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Regional integration and trade highlights at SADC Industrialisation Week
31 Jul 18 NewsThe message from the opening session of the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) annual regional public-private engagement forum, known as Industrialisation Week, was ...
Exceptions in the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
31 Jul 18 BlogPart IV of the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement contains certain General Exceptions to the non-discrimination principle in the MFN and national treatment rules. Exceptions ar...
The Settlement of Disputes under the SADC EPA
31 Jul 18 BlogAfrican states are not known for instituting formal dispute settlement proceedings about the violation of trade agreements. They never do so amongst themselves and very seldom vis-...
Trade routes: goods trade between SADC and the EU
31 Jul 18 InfographicsThe Eurostat database shows the export of goods (recorded in tons) to the EU28 member states by mode of transportation. The data shows the mode of transportation for external trade...
SADC EPA Trade Defense Mechanisms
31 Jul 18 BlogThe Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) EPA Group[1] is a WTO compatible Free Trade Agreement (FTA...
Trade between the SADC EPA countries and the EU
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27 Jul 18 News10th BRICS Summit Johannesburg Declaration
BRICS in Africa: Collaboration for inclusive growth and shared prosperity in the 4th Industrial Revolution (DIRCO)
Extracts from S...
Zim engages Sadc over market access
27 Jul 18 NewsZimbabwe is still engaging Sadc on full market access as it has not yet fully implemented the Sadc Free Trade Area due to industrialisation, a government official has said.
In a s...
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19 Jul 18 NewsA preview: SADC Industrialisation Week (30 July - 1 August, Windhoek) on the theme of Promoting infrastructure and youth empowerment for sustainable development. Register her...
SADC-PF gravitates towards regional parliament
19 Jul 18 NewsConspicuous efforts are being made to transform the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC-PF) into a regional parliament.
One of those efforts was the recent convergence of SADC national...
Industrialisation week to increase private sector participation
19 Jul 18 NewsTHE third annual Southern African Development Community industrialisation week is expected to broaden the participation of the private sector, youth and women in the implementation...
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11 Jul 18 NewsLaunched today in Addis Ababa: The inaugural Africa’s Development Dynamics 2018 report
Africa needs development strategies that are more coherent and that prioritise improved pu...
SADC Committee of Ministers of Finance and Investment meets in Johannesburg
11 Jul 18 NewsThe SADC Committee of Ministers of Finance and Investment met in Johannesburg South Africa on 11 July, 2018, joined by central bank governors from the region to discuss areas of co...
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10 Jul 18 NewsCOMESA Summit update: The 38th Inter-governmental Committee began on Monday in Lusaka. The committee will review reports on the implementation of regional integration programmes an...
Climate variability accelerates food and nutrition insecurity in Southern Africa
10 Jul 18 NewsFood insecure population on the increase
The number of food insecure people in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in the 2018/19 consumption year is 29 milli...
Understanding global remittances corridors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
03 Jul 18 NewsIs there any hope of reducing informal cross border remittances – or are informal channels really that bad?
The current global remittance market is estimated to be in the region...
South Africa on ratification of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area
14 Jun 18 NewsPresentation to the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry on 13 June 2018
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) was launched in June 2015 in Egypt. Negotiations of the legal t...
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13 Jun 18 NewsThe second African Transformation Forum takes place next week in Accra. Access the conference agenda here.
UNCTAD convenes an expert meeting on statistical methodologies for measu...
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11 Jun 18 NewsAfCFTA Ratification Barometer: Niger becomes the fourth state to deposit its instrument of ratification with the African Union
Starting today, in Cape Town: COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripar...