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14 Dec 18 NewsAhead of Monday’s IMF conference, The future of work in sub-Saharan Africa, in Accra, Ghana: a podcast with Axel Schimmelpfennig
AfCFTA updates from this past week’s AMOT mini...
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SACU’s Trade Facilitation Programme: Talking Regional Customs Modernisation
14 Dec 18 BlogTrade Facilitation in SACU
Generally, the Trade Facilitation process intends to reduce impediments and bottlenecks in cross-border trade and thus promote a seamless movement of go...
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East African bloc agrees to make trade cheaper, faster and simpler
14 Dec 18 NewsMeeting in Nairobi, East African Community (EAC) ministers pledge to undertake trade facilitation reforms in line with continental and WTO agreements.
Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, the ...
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13 Dec 18 NewsIMF’s Chart of the Week: Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth is a tale of different experiences
President Trump’s new Africa strategy was unveiled today in Washington:
Remarks by A...
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06 Dec 18 NewsGetting to 22: Namibia, South Africa ratify the AfCFTA
@AmbMuchanga: More great news on AfCFTA ratification! The National Assembly of Namibia has approved the ratification of ...
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05 Dec 18 Newstralac in the news at AEC2018: ”We have learned a lot of lessons,” Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director of the Trade Law Centre, said. “We have a window to build capaci...
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WCO and SACU region celebrate successful conclusion of the regional Customs Modernization Programme
05 Dec 18 NewsBack in 2014, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Secretariat and the five Customs administrations of the SACU region (Botswana, Lesotho...
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04 Dec 18 NewsSome keynote, Q1 2019, African trade policy discussions to diarise:
Trade Policy Review for the East African Community (20, 22 March 2019, Geneva). This will be the only Afric...
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03 Dec 18 NewsAfrican trade events to diarise: African Ministers of Trade meeting (12-13 December, Cairo); 1st SADCSTAN workshop to adopt Harmonised Transport Standards (10-14 December, South Af...
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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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Safety, competitiveness, infrastructure key to aviation’s benefits in Africa
30 Nov 18 NewsThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged governments in Africa to maximize the positive social and economic power of aviation by working together to promote safe, s...
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29 Nov 18 NewsAfCFTA ratification update, @GovUganda: Today (Wednesday) the Instrument of Uganda’s ratification of the AfCFTA was officially handed over to the African Union Commission. Uganda...
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28 Nov 18 NewsTomorrow, in Addis Ababa: 6th African Union Commission-United States High Level Dialogue. Amb. Kwesi Quartey (AUC Deputy Chairperson) and Tibor Peter Nagy (US Assistant Secretary o...
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Committees are cornerstone of pan-African trade dream, NTFC Forum hears
28 Nov 18 NewsNational trade facilitation committees can make the dream of seamless African trade a reality, experts tell Addis Ababa forum on easing the flow of goods on the continent.
The dre...
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27 Nov 18 NewsDiarise: Role of capital markets in mobilizing domestic resources in Africa – a capacity building workshop (5-7 December, Gaborone). Download the concept note (pdf)
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Smooth African trade to tackle rising challenges: UNCTAD head
27 Nov 18 NewsCompetitive transport, logistics and foreign investment are essential to ease intra-African commerce and reap rewards of new deal, meeting hears.
Smoothing the way for African tra...
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26 Nov 18 NewsAfrican trade and infrastructure events starting today:
PIDA Week 2018, in Victoria Falls. Nepad CEO, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki: “As regional integration arrangements deepen and...
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Africa seeks cheaper, faster and easier trade at NTFCs forum
26 Nov 18 NewsA landmark forum, co-organized by UNCTAD, focuses efforts by African countries seeking ways to ease interregional and international trade.
African countries seeking to reduce the ...
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WTO report shows sharp rise in trade-restrictive measures from G20 economies
22 Nov 18 NewsThe WTO’s 20th monitoring report on Group of 20 (G20) trade measures issued on 22 November shows that the amount of trade covered by new import-restrictive measures hit a new hig...
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COMESA, EU sign €48 million trade facilitation programme agreement
21 Nov 18 NewsThe European Union and COMESA have signed a €48.3 million trade facilitation programme. The COMESA Trade Facilitation Programme (CTFP) aims at deepening regional integration, imp...
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