Mayor’s Private Sector Conference
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Cryptocurrency and Kenyan Farmers
News, News ArticleCryptocurrencies make headlines for shaking up the financial world, but they are also gaining ground in less developed countries. In Kenya, an American economist, who introduced blockchain technology for low-income urban customers, has extended…
Botswana president calls for domestication of AfCFTA at national level
News, News ArticleBotswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Saturday urged African countries' parliaments to ensure that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is domesticated for it to be effective.
Masisi made this call in a speech he deliberated…
AfDB to spend $2bn on AfCFTA infrastructure projects
News, News ArticleMr Adesina explained that the AfDB was driving its industrialisation strategy to support value chains across Africa.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) plans to spend an additional two billion dollars on infrastructure targeted at promoting…
ECA partners ODI and ACET to research into how AfCFTA will promote post COVID-19 economic recovery
News, News ArticleThe Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is to assist member states to develop their national African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) implementation strategy with an environmental bias in anticipation of challenges of COVID-19 and climate…
AfCFTA targets zero duty on 97% products traded in Africa in 15yrs
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The target of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement is to achieve zero duty on 97 percent of all products traded in Africa in the next 15 years, the Secretary-General of AfCFTA Secretariat, Mr Wamkele Mene, has…
High Level Green Talk on Accelerating the EU-Africa Partnership for Green Transition in Africa
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The Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PACCI) presents its compliments and writes to invite you to the upcoming EU Africa Business Forum on the theme: High Level Green Talk on Accelerating the EU-Africa Partnership for Green Transition…
Global trade in 2021 to grow a bit faster at 8% – WTO
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By Rédaction Africanews
International trade is set to grow a bit faster this year than previously predicted, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday.
The volume of global trade contracted by 5.3% in 2020, less than expected as the…
AfCFTA Secretariat and UNDP sign a strategic partnership agreement
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source: afcta.au.int
The AfCFTA Secretariat and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today have signed a strategic partnership to promote trade as a stimulus for Africa’s socioeconomic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, and as a driver…
On implementing the AfCFTA in 2021
News, News Articleby David Luke, Judith Ameso, Mahlet Girma Bekele / in Op-ed
New trade agreement involves country and regional economic community actions
On 1 January 2021, Africa officially started trading under the African Continental Free Trade…
Day 4: Africa Private Sector Summit
News, News ArticleIntroducing Day 4 Keynote address Righting Business Wrongs.
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