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Africans need to invest in each other’s economies
Changes in the global trading landscape have resulted in reduced flows of foreign direct investment from the rest of the world to developing countries, and to Africa in particular. Recovery in the...
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How Africa’s young entrepreneurs are changing the trade landscape
Africa has always been and will continue to be a dynamic landscape, from both a physical and a human geography perspective. While in the past the continent’s rich resources were used for the advantage...
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Blockchain disruptors set sights on Africa
From funding atrocities in Sierra Leone to fuelling civil conflict in the Central African Republic, few of Africa’s valuable resources are as closely tied to violence and war as the diamond. Unveiled...
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Architect of CFTA: No way Nigeria will abandon trade pact
The African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) summit held in Kigali, Rwanda in March 2018 was supposed to be the culmination of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah’s dream of a truly united...
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Africa bids to unlock trade finance potential
Amid great fanfare 44 African countries signed the long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) earlier this year. The bloc is expected to boost intra-African trade – pegged at less than 20%...
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Big read: Is Africa’s free trade area a pipe dream?
Six long years after the African Union’s decision to establish an African free trade area, policymakers met in Kigali this March to put their signatures to the most ambitious pact in the continent’s...
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Tariffs exacerbate US-South Africa rift
Four years into a presidency rich in bilateral visits, US President Barack Obama and his entourage finally landed in South Africa in June 2013. While the President’s lack of haste in visiting Africa’s...
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Africa’s Blue Economy: An overlooked opportunity?
Twelve miles off the coast of Namibia and 150 metres above the ocean floor, a fleet of six vessels scans and sifts for the valuable diamonds that boost the economies of southern Africa. Honing in on...
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Africa nervously eyes Trump’s trade war
After a phony war stretching to the earliest days of his presidency, Donald Trump fired off the loudest salvo yet in his trade battle with China in July. Threatening to impose 10% tariffs on over...
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Exlusive Interview with Assome Aminata Diatta, Senegal’s director at the...
Senegal, just like the whole of Africa, has everything to gain from a free trade area, suggests Assome Aminata Diatta, Senegal’s International Trade Director. But better identification of growth...
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