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18 Jul 19 Newstralac’s Message on Mandela Day 2019: Good Governance and the State
Mandela Day serves to remind and inspire us to strive for social justice. This is the complex and multi-facet...
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16 Jul 19 NewsKenya: Ruto, Raila jointly launch national export strategy (The Standard)
Deputy President William Ruto and Opposition chief Raila Odinga yesterday launched a national export stra...
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01 Jul 19 NewsTwo key trade policy events are taking place this week:
The Aid for Trade Global Review 2019 gets underway in Geneva on Wednesday, ending on Friday. By addressing the supply-...
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Africa’s output grew by 3.4% in 2018, Afreximbank’s African Trade Report 2019 shows
01 Jul 19 NewsAfrica’s output grew by 3.4 per cent between 2017 and 2018 despite the slowdown in global growth during that period, a new report by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) ...
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South Africa’s Trade Performance for January to November 2018
28 Jun 19 PublicationsDespite being one of the biggest economies on the African Continent, South Africa is confronted with high levels of poverty, income inequality and high unemployment, which have und...
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10 Jun 19 NewsA selection of African trade and development events to diarise:
The 2019-2020 Mauritius Budget was presented to the National Assembly today. Download the full Budget Speech on the...
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25 Apr 19 NewsAfrican trade policy events taking place today:
In Maseru: SACU Council of Ministers meeting
In Arusha: EABC-UNECA workshop on the role of the private sector in the AfCFTA
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10 Apr 19 NewsConcluding today, in Windhoek: UNCTAD regional capacity building training workshop on the use of statistics and the Productive Capacities Index to inform evidence-based policy-maki...
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04 Apr 19 NewsThe AfDB’s Regional Economic Outlook: the West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa regional reports have been launched
The IMF has posted the Analytical Cha...
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East Africa’s economy races ahead of its African peers, modest growth forecast for the rest of the continent – African Development Bank
04 Apr 19 NewsJob creation and ramping up manufacturing will continue to be major priority areas for creating growth, according to the African Development Bank Regional Economic Outlook Reports ...
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29 Mar 19 NewsA suite of AfCFTA updates:
Professor Benedict Oramah, Afreximbank President: 2019 Bullion Lecture, delivered earlier this week in Lagos on Leveraging the AfCFTA to B...
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South Sudan kicks off WTO membership negotiations
26 Mar 19 NewsAt the first meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of South Sudan on 21 March 2019, WTO members expressed support for working with the world’s youngest nation in order to...
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Trade Policy Review: East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda)
21 Mar 19 NewsThe third joint Trade Policy Review of the East African Community (EAC) takes place on 20 and 22 March, 2019 to provide clarification from the EAC members on its trade policies and...
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18 Mar 19 NewsUnderway, in Marrakech: Africa Regional Midterm Review Meeting of the Vienna Programme of Action for the Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024
Starting tomorr...
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15 Mar 19 NewsDiarise: Canada Africa Business Conference (26-27 March, Gaborone)
Nigeria’s PEBEC launches innovative public service feedback, complaints platform to drive Ease of Doing Busine...
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13 Mar 19 NewsTrade policy pointers:
Cameroon will host an AfCFTA national sensitization, information forum in mid-April 2019: further details, here and here
Togo’s AfCFTA forum:&nbs...
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Bi-National Commission: South Africa reiterates support for new Zimbabwe
13 Mar 19 NewsPresident Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated South Africa’s commitment to work with Zimbabwe in addressing the socio-economic challenges experienced by the two neighbouring countries...
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Export Diversification in Africa and Sustainable Growth
07 Mar 19 PublicationsLong-term growth is a necessary condition for developing countries to achieve developmental goals; however, being export-dependent for growth, this suggests that they need to devel...
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Final Declaration of the 2nd STC of the AU Ministers of Trade, Industry and Mineral Resources
06 Mar 19 NewsWE, the African Union (AU) Ministers of Trade, Industry and Minerals, meeting in our 2nd Ordinary Session of the Specialized Technical Committee of the Ministers of Trade, Industry...
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05 Mar 19 NewsFeatured tweet, @CelestinMonga: Sierra Leone ($500 income per capita) imports onions from the Netherlands, 7,000 kilometers away. Why? It takes more than one month to import fresh,...
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