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20 Aug 19 NewsNext month, UNU-WIDER, in partnership with the Brookings Institution, launches its inaugural Massive Open Online Course: Industrial Policy and the Challenge for Africa
An intervie...
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14 Jun 19 NewsTanzania’s President Magufuli will assume the chairmanship of SADC in mid-August. Important dates to note: Fourth SADC Industrialization Week (22-26 July, Dar es Salaam); SADC Co...
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16 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA update: The Gambia, today, deposited its instruments of ratification for the AfCFTA with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, becoming the 20th country to do so....
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19 Mar 19 NewsA reminder of the call for papers for the TMEA, University of Portsmouth, Centre for International Trade and Investment Law (India) conference: Inclusive and sustainable participat...
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07 Mar 19 NewsDiarise: The IDA19 replenishment process will be held in June, in Addis Ababa. A backgrounder on the IDA19 Replenishment
A preview of next Tuesday’s Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-Nat...
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India-South Africa Joint Statement/Joint Communiqué
29 Jan 19 NewsOf the State Visit of President Cyril Ramaphosa to India, 25 January 2019
At the invitation of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the President of the Republic of South Africa...
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first State Visit to India
29 Jan 19 NewsPresident Cyril Ramaphosa, during his media remarks on 25 January 2019 following his first State Visit to India as President of the Republic of South Africa, said that fruitfu...
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30 Nov 18 NewsAfCFTA ratification update, @AUTradeIndustry:
“Great and welcome news. Getting closer to 22. Senegalese cabinet last night adopted draft law authorizing ratification of AfCFTA A...
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Intra-African trade key to continent’s economic growth, says Mauritian Minister
18 Sep 18 NewsThe 24th Session of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Southern Africa opened in Mauritius today with an impassioned plea from Foreign Affairs, Regional Integrati...
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Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Action Plan (2019-2021)
10 Sep 18 News1. Preamble
1.1 The 2018 Beijing Summit and the Seventh Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Beijing from 2 to 4 September 2018. Hea...
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Declaration of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
06 Sep 18 NewsTowards an Even Stronger China-Africa Community with a Shared Future
1.1 We, the Heads of State, Government and Delegations of the People’s Republic of China and 53 African coun...
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Kagame backs new China-Africa development framework
05 Sep 18 NewsPresident Paul Kagame has backed the Africa-China development framework announced on Monday by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
President Kagame was speaking on Tuesday at a roundtab...
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2018 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC): Remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa
04 Sep 18 NewsRemarks by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the 2018 FOCAC Opening Ceremony in Beijing, China
At the outset, allow me to express our profound gratitude for the gener...
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2018 FOCAC Beijing Summit: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony
04 Sep 18 NewsChinese President H.E. Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on Monday. The full...
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In Beijing, UN chief urges China, Africa for a win-win collaboration for ‘the future we want’
04 Sep 18 NewsHighlighting the economic and development progress made in China and Africa, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged them to unite their combined potential for pea...
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FOCAC: Call for investment-led trade
04 Sep 18 NewsPresident Cyril Ramaphosa has called for investment-led trade between Africa and China.
This will help promote the industrialisation of African economies and position the continen...
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31 Aug 18 NewsEthiopian trade, industrial policy updates:
(i) Ethiopia’s PM appoints new policy reforms advisor, chief trade negotiator (ECADF). Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has assigned Mamo Mi...
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Tensions grow over the future of the ACP group
31 Aug 18 NewsThe African Union wants to have a continent-to-continent dialogue with Europe, a change that could make the framework of the Cotonou Agreement implode and leave the Pacific and Car...
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Third Singapore-Sub-Saharan Africa High-Level Ministerial Exchange Visit
29 Aug 18 News12 Ministers from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda called on Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong at...
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Mauritius-China FTA: Third round of negotiations underway
14 Aug 18 NewsThe three-day third round of negotiations on the Mauritius-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) opened on Monday, 13 August 2018 at the Hilton Hotel in Flic en Flac. The FTA aims at fu...
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