Emerging challenges face Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area One of Africa’s flagship initiatives for integration, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), recently signed faces challenges at the Regional Economic…
Étiquette : African Agenda Vol. 21 No. 2
The African Continental Free Trade Area: Facts and Figures
By admin0CFTA milestone timeline June 2015: Negotiations launched February 2016: First negotiating forum held May 2016: Adoption of 12 negotiating guiding principles February 2017: First meeting of the 7 technical working…
Emerging challenges face Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area
By admin0One of Africa’s flagship initiatives for integration, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), recently signed faces challenges at the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) level, especially in the Economic Community…
COMESA grappling with itself: ready to open up to the African Continental Free Trade Area?
By admin0Only three of 27 members of the Common Market for Eastern Africa (COMESA) bloc have endorsed the tripartite free trade area deal, three years after it was launched, shining the…
Africa cannot wait
By Stephen Appraku0On the sidelines of the Africa-wide Multi-stakeholders’ Forum on the AfCFTA, held in Accra, Ghana, *Million Habte of the African Union Commission and *Ambassador Nelson Ndiragu express their views on…
AfCFTA - hasty decisions and incoherences
By Stephen Appraku0Third World Network-Africa hosted an Africa-wide multi-stakeholder consultation on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in Accra, Ghana, from June12-14. The over 40 participants which included officials from national…
Will rising international concern over a new debt crisis be matched by action?
By Stephen Appraku0The number of poor countries facing major debt crises has doubled since 2013, says IMF; but are remedies robust enough? Asks *Mark Perera. In March, the IMF turned up the…