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AEC2018: African countries must leverage their strengths to accelerate drive towards integration

04 Dec 18 News

Participants at the 13th African Economic Conference have called for African countries to leverage the full range of their strengths and resources to accelerate the ...

Let us make Africa’s infrastructure competitive, Zimbabwean Minister urges continent at PIDA Week

27 Nov 18 News

Africa needs to unite and work hard to reverse colonial infrastructure systems which promoted the extraction of profitable agricultural and mineral wealth for export at the expense...

Africa’s infrastructure deficit under spotlight as PIDA Week 2018 opens in Victoria Falls

26 Nov 18 News

The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week 2018 opened in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe on Monday with a media breakfast that brought together journalists, infra...

Modernisation of the multilateral trading system – WTO reforms

18 Nov 18 Blog

The multilateral trading system and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are today under threat. The system is being shaken by increasing protectionism and the imposition of non-tari...

American mid-term Elections: What International Implications?

18 Nov 18 Blog

The American mid-term elections took place during the first week of November 2018 and were keenly watched. Many have hoped that control by the Democratic Party of the House of Repr...

Is it time for a new Global Order?

18 Nov 18 Blog

The policies of President Trump have brought a new urgency to the debate about the future of the global economic and geopolitical order. American tariffs on Chinese goods[1], the w...

11th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union: Summary of key decisions

18 Nov 18 News

The 11th Extraordinary Session of the African Union Summit, focusing on institutional reform of the African Union, was held in Addis Ababa from 5th to 18th November 2018. It start...

Extraordinary Summit on AU Reforms begins with the aim “to make Africa stronger and give our people the future they deserve”

17 Nov 18 News

The supreme organ of the African Union, the Assembly, which comprises Heads of State and Government of all the 55 African countries, began its 11th Extraordinary Session today with...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

16 Nov 18 News

Mali’s parliament yesterday, 15 November, unanimously ratified the AfCFTA Agreement. @AbdoulayeDiop8: Bravo au gouvernement & a l’Assemblée nationale du Mali pour cette pr...

20th Extraordinary session of the African Union Executive Council held in Addis Ababa

16 Nov 18 News

The 20th Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) opened on 14th November 2018 at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with calls highlighti...

AUC Deputy Chairperson shares insights on the ongoing financial reforms of the Union

15 Nov 18 News

“This is a watershed moment for Africa” At the 31st Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit held in Nouakchott, Mauritania in July 2018, a budget of US$681,485,337 was ap...

Global Financial Integrity releases new study on trade misinvoicing in South Africa

14 Nov 18 News

Trade misinvoicing in South Africa leads to massive revenue losses Analysis of trade misinvoicing in South Africa from 2010-2014 shows that the potential average loss of revenue t...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

13 Nov 18 News

Regional Risks for Doing Business 2018 (WEF) Of the 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that we surveyed, “unemployment and underemployment” was identified as the most pressing...

Africa-Europe Partnership: A vision beyond migration

08 Nov 18 News

Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini during the S&D 2018 Africa Week This is the third important meeting that the [S&D – Socialists & Demo...

Institutional reform of the African Union is the major focus of the 11th AU Extraordinary Summit underway in Addis Ababa

08 Nov 18 News

Under the framework of the 11th African Union Extraordinary Summit, the AU Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) officially opened on Monday 5th November 2018, at the AU headqu...

Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2017/18

06 Nov 18 Publications

Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa is celebrating its 15th anniversary. This edition includes a review of the developments since 2001, the year when the first editi...

Global Financial Integrity releases new study on trade misinvoicing in Nigeria

31 Oct 18 News

Nigeria trade misinvoicing leads to significant revenue losses Analysis of trade misinvoicing in Nigeria in 2014 shows that the potential loss of revenue to the government was app...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

29 Oct 18 News

The G20 Compact with Africa meeting gets underway today in Berlin: President Ramaphosa: In his capacity as co-chair of the G20 Africa Advisory Group, President Ramaphosa wi...

African governance progress lagging behind needs and expectations of growing population, finds 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance

29 Oct 18 News

Despite strong GDP growth over the last 10 years, Africa has failed to generate economic opportunities for its booming youth population The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governan...

Joint Communiqué of the Ottawa Ministerial on WTO Reform

26 Oct 18 News

DG Azevêdo welcomes commitment to strengthen the WTO Speaking at a gathering of ministers to discuss WTO reform, which was convened by the Canadian government in Ottawa on 25 Oct...