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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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.’…

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,…

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat will on Friday at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, launch the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative, to enable commercially meaningful trade and test AfCFTA’s legal and trade policy environment, intended to send a positive message to Africa’s economic operators.   The…

The 2nd African Forum on Mining (AFM2022) commenced on Monday, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which also marks the launch of the second phase of the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC). AMDC is the AU’s specialized agency mandated to provide strategic operational support and coordination for the implementation of the African…