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Ahead of the 41st Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive Council and the 4th AU – Regional Economic Communities (RECs) Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (MYCM), to be held July 17 in Lusaka, Zambia, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the AU, the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) has…

Between June 27 and July 1, the Department of Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry, and Minerals (ETTIM) of the African Union Commission, in collaboration with the Africa Business Council (AfBC) and All Africa Association for SMEs (AAASME), hosted the first-ever African Union Annual SME Forum, in Cairo, Egypt. The International…

A fortnight ago, a delegation from YouLead Africa and its affiliated entities i.e the Independent Continental Youth Advisory Council on AfCFTA (ICOYACA) and the Africa Under 40 CEOs Network (AFRICEN), was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for bilateral and multilateral engagements.       YouLead Africa, Africa’s flagship youth leadership program,…

The African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (the German Agency for International Cooperation) launched a series of regional civil society sensitization forums on the African Union Continental Free Movement Protocol (FMP).     By Adam Alqali The maiden Africa…

Despite its impact on people’s health and economic wellbeing, sanitation often comes at the tail end of discussions on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).       In Senegal’s new, lake-side city of Diamniadio, 40 kilometers outside of Dakar, global water and sanitation stakeholders were gathered at the 15,000-seater Dakar…

To foster intra-African electronic trade amongst women and youths under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the COMESA Federation of Women in Business (COMFWB) and the African Electronic Trade (AeTrade) Group last week, jointly launched Sokokuu, Africa’s premier e-commerce portal, to traders in COMESA region.     By Stephen…

Deliberations at tralac’s 2021 Annual Conference centred on how Africa can build effective public health preparedness against Covid-19 and future pandemics as well as the role of women, youth and SMEs in the continent’s emerging digital trade space     By Adam Alqali & Stephen Enoch As the third wave…

Stakeholders from the African Union, Member States, United Nations, private sector as well as civil society are currently participating in the three-day virtual commemoration of the 2021 African Integration Forum   By Adam Alqali     It would be recalled that July 7 was declared as African Integration Day by…

The 30th African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Forum of Heads of State and Government virtual meeting, under the chairmanship of President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa cum chairperson of the APR Forum, Thursday welcomed the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the 41st African Union member state to accede to…

New Faces New Voices (NFNV) Nigeria last week hosted a two-day virtual regional stakeholders roundtable which brainstormed on the impact of COVID-19 on West African women entrepreneurs and cross-border traders and how they could emerge stronger from the disruption caused by the pandemic.     The New Faces New Voices…