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The failure of most signatories to ratify the Free Movement of People protocol is a major challenge for the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), says Stephen Karingi, Director, Regional Integration and Trade Division of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). To date only four countries have…

Only a minority of the goals set by the Rwandan president as part of his African Union governance plan have been achieved, he told his peers at the 17-18 February summit in Addis Ababa, as he hands the baton to his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto. According to the official programme,…

The Empowering Women in Agriculture (EWA) initiative recently held its 7th High-Level Breakfast Meeting on Empowering Women in Agriculture to showcase African women’s advancement in agriculture, which centered around the themes of scaling up empowerment, highlighting achievements, and cultivating partnerships. A group photo of stakeholders at the 7th Empowering Women…

The Empowering Women in Agriculture (EWA) initiative is set to hold a breakfast meeting to showcase African women’s advancement in agriculture next week Friday, on the sidelines of the upcoming 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of African Union, holding February 17 – 18 place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. EWA…

The African Minerals Development Center (AMDC) is set to host an ‘Industry Intel Session’ at the upcoming 2024 Mining Indaba scheduled for February 5 – 8 in Cape Town, South Africa, to showcase the tenets of the draft African Green Minerals Strategy (AGMS). The AMDC is mandated to coordinate and oversee…

The 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union is set to be held February 17-18, 2024, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, vis-à-vis the African Union Theme of the Year for 2024: Education. It will be recalled that the AU Theme for the…

African journalists reporting climate change issues and the transition to renewable energy must first understand their continent and its energy goals to be able to offer balanced reporting of the continent’s climate change and energy issues. This call was made by Verner Ayukegba, senior vice president at the African Energy…

Twenty years after it was established by the NEPAD Heads of State Summit on March 9, 2003, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Africa’s governance self-monitoring mechanism willingly acceded to by AU member states, is set to commemorate its main 20th anniversary, from 10 to 14 December 2023 in Johannesburg,…

The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), a leading global think-tank for sustainable development, has called for increased climate financing to help developing countries affected by climate change meet up with their financing requirements to mitigate the impacts of climate change.     This call was made during the…

Prof. Gibril Faal, the Gambian multi-disciplinary business and development executive cum visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics (LSE), has blamed the lump-of-labor fallacy for the fear and discrimination of African labor migrants in Africa.   The ‘lump of labor’ fallacy is the idea that there is…