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The Organizing Committee of the 6th All Africa Intellectual Property Summit (AAIPS 2025) has announced Ethiopian Airlines and Air Peace as the official airline partners for the upcoming summit, scheduled for 12–14 November 2025 in Dakar, Senegal. African Newspage is the official media partner of the 6th All-Africa Intellectual Property Summit…

The Organizing Committee of the 6th All-Africa Intellectual Property Summit (AAIPS 2025), scheduled for November 12–14, 2025, in Dakar, Senegal, has announced a special pre-summit webinar to commemorate African Technology and Intellectual Property (ATIP) Day on September 12, 2025, from 14:00 to 16:00 WAT. The webinar, themed “Driving Regional Integration…

The Southern African Development Community (SADC), in partnership with the European Union (EU), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the International Trade Centre (ITC), has officially launched the SADC component of the Africa Trade Competitiveness and Market Access (ATCMA) Programme. Partners at the launch of the Southern African…

Trade between African nations rebounded sharply in 2024, reaching $220.3 billion, a 12.4% increase over the previous year—after a 5.9% contraction in 2023, according to Afreximbank’s African Trade Report 2025. Launch of the Africa Trade Report at the 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meetings in Abuja, Nigeria This resurgence was powered by stronger activity…

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the Government of Grenada, convened the 4th AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2025) from July 28 to 29 in St. George’s, Grenada, under the theme: “Resilience and Transformation – Enhancing the Africa-Caribbean Economic Cooperation in an Era of Global Uncertainty.” Family photo…

The African Union Development Agency–NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), through its African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH) programme, has officially launched the African Working Group on Substandard and Falsified Medical Products (SFMP) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and unveiled the newly appointed leadership who will spearhead this critical initiative. Left to right: Rapporteur: D Solim…

The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) has joined the National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe — all of which are recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having achieved Maturity Level 3 (ML3) – in signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on…

The Réseau Africain de la Propriété Intellectuelle des Magistrats (RAMPI), or the African Network of Intellectual Property Magistrates, has been confirmed as a strategic partner for the 6th Edition of the All Africa Intellectual Property Summit (AAIPS), scheduled for November 12–14, 2025, in Dakar, Senegal. This year’s summit, hosted in…

The African Union Commission (AUC), in collaboration with the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will host the 4th African Union Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Forum from June 23 to 27, 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria. The 4th MSME Forum, themed: “Building Resilient MSMEs through Digital Innovation, Market…

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has voiced a strong opposition to the international credit rating agency, Fitch  Ratings, over its recent downgrade of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), noting that the decision is based on misinterpretation and faulty classification of sovereign loans. The downgrade, announced on June 4, lowered…