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DFS-2: Catalyzing Public-Private Partnerships for Africa’s infrastructure development
To mobilize the collective support of governments, the private sector, financing institutions, and development partners for the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa’s 2nd Priority Action Plan (PIDA PAP2) projects, Republic of Senegal last week hosted in its new city of Diamniadio the 2nd Dakar Financing Summit for Africa’s Infrastructure…
Read More »REVIEW | Wamkele Mene and AfCFTA Roulette
Bruce Byiers and Poorva Karkare focus on how Dercon’s thinking applies to African economic integration, and what someone like Wamkele Mene, the Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and his partners, might use from it. The book’s arguments The book’s main argument is that growth and…
Read More »When industrialization became a centrepiece of Africa’s agenda
The African Union Summit on Industrialization, Economic Diversification cum Extraordinary Session on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) held November 25 in Niamey, Niger. The 1980s First Industrial Decade for Africa (IDDA1) marked the beginning of a conscious policy effort to make Africa’s industrialization a priority. Subsequently,…
Read More »AU industrialization, AfCFTA summits to convene Nov 25 in Niamey
The African Union Summit on Industrialization, Economic Diversification and the African Union Extraordinary Session on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), alongside the commemoration of the 2022 Africa Industrialization Week (AIW2022), are set to be held November 20 – 25 in Niamey, Niger. AIW 2022 is billed…
Read More »COP27: Beyond the euphoria, lets negotiate well for Africa, By Abideen Olasupo
The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP27) is currently underway in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, with an estimated 5,000 delegates in attendance, including 120 world leaders, climate activists, and youth representatives. For the 27th time, world leaders at COP27 are sharing more plans towards mitigating climate…
Read More »AU: Promoting the Triple Nexus — Peace, Security and Development
The African Union Policy Conference on the Triple Nexus between peace, security and development featured reflections on strategies of simultaneously promoting development and integration, along with peace and security. It is a universal belief that there can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable…
Read More »OP-ED | AfCFTA: Africa set to takeoff or to crash this decade, By Joachim Buwembo
Will the single market be realized fast enough to withstand the global storms where powerful societies are devising ways, covert and overt, to devour others? Imagine a big plane with hundreds of passengers racing on the tarmac readying to take off. But towards the end of the runway,…
Read More »tralac’s 20th anniversary conference holds October 13-14 in Nairobi
The Trade Law Centre (tralac), Africa’s leading trade capacity-building think-tank assisting countries to improve trade governance and achieve inclusive trade policy processes, is set to hold its annual conference which also coincides with its 20th anniversary on the 13th and 14th of October, in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference,…
Read More »INTERVIEW | Why African governments should prioritize investment in digital infrastructure – Poncelet Ileleji
Poncelet Ileleji chairs the Economic for Africa (ECA) Africa taskforce on the 17th Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF), scheduled for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 28 to December 02, 2022. Newspage: The theme for the 17th Global IGF is: Resilient Internet for a ‘Shared Sustainable and Common Future.’…
Read More »When ‘actual trading’ began under AfCFTA
The long-awaited commercially meaningful trade has now commenced under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), as stakeholders gathered on Friday evening at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, to launch the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative. The Guided Trade Initiative, which seeks to test AfCFTA’s operational, institutional,…
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OP-ED | Why New AU leaders Need a Bold Vision for Africa’s Peace Operations, By Ibrahim Barrie et al.
As Mahamoud Youssouf begins his tenure at the African Union Commission, he can draw …
