Tag: South-South cooperation

Business Summit seeks to maximise the potential of the economic and commercial partnership between South Africa and India The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) in partner...

The Indonesia-Africa Forum (IAF) 2018, a forum organized by Indonesia for the first time, has succeeded in drawing up a series of concrete agreements to further strengthen Indonesi...

Unleashing potentials: Developing Sustainable Economic and Investment Cooperation “[The] Indonesia-Africa Forum is the embodiment of the commitment of Indonesia and African coun...

Africa’s partnerships with the EU, India: key updates (i) AU Executive Council adopts the African Common Position for negotiations of a new cooperation agreement with the EU. In...

March 21st, 2018 marked a historical day for Africa in its vision to build an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa with the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agre...

Ten years ago, the worst financial crisis in decades roiled developing economies across the globe, temporarily halting their progress in the fight against extreme poverty. As the w...

In Abidjan: 5th African Union-European Union Summit concludes: Investing in youth for a sustainable future The 5th African Union-European Union Summit took place on 29-30 Nov...

As the most vulnerable countries continue to face serious development challenges, South-South cooperation offers enormous opportunities and potential to effectively support them in...

Featured African trade tweets: @AnnMbiruru: Good news for transporters from Dar. Only 3 police roadblocks are official in Tanzania between Dar es Salaam and Mutukula, said TZ Pres...

Risky trade dependence for sectors and countries that export commodities Almost twenty years after the launch of the first Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China-Africa relation...

A reminder: The Doing Business 2018 report was released today. Read more here. South Africa’s September trade statistics: another surplus (SARS) The R4bn trade balance surplus ...

The Institute for Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Wits Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP) held a one-day symposium at the University of...

African countries individually represent relatively small markets, but collectively, they represent enormous market potential, the United Nations deputy chief told an Africa Week e...

In this week’s tralac’s e-Newsletter: Talkmore Chidede discusses a recent suit filed by Zimbabwe invoking the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol Yesterday’s African Union ...

Through the Partnership for Investment and Growth in Africa (PIGA) project, companies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia are doing business with Chinese investors. African ...

Underscoring the importance of South-South cooperation, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on 12 September 2017 urged sustained commitment to mutually beneficia...

Featured @AUTradeIndustry tweet (from the ongoing BIAT conference in Tanzania): Intra-Africa Trade would double from the current level of ~$170bn per year to almost $400bn by addre...

tralac’s Weekly e-newsletter is posted: The battle over safeguards on poultry imports from the EU continues Profiled African trade and industrial policy events: (i) Growing bus...

Featured tweet, @MaureenAAchieng (IOM Ethiopia Chief of Mission and Representative to AU, UNECA, IGAD): @AUC_DPA Continental free movement in Africa is a step closer after 3 days o...

Despite the recent discourse about ‘Africa rising’, the continent’s growth and development prospects remain challenging. Optimism about Africa’s future was based largely o...