Next week, the AfCFTA countries are taking the first big step with an Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) in which 41 countries have already registered to participate. The…
Month: November 2018
Economic Integration in Africa (AfCFTA) - IMF Finance
Now a new player is emerging with the potential to defragment Africa and boost the productivity of its economies: the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)…
Nile countries prepare water monitoring system to fill data gaps
have been at loggerheads since 2011, when Ethiopia started building the 6.5-gigawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, set to be the largest dam in Africa.
EA Debate: Role of youth in the implementation of AfCFTA
If ratified, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area would the continent the largest free-trade block in terms of participating countries since the formation of the…
Varsity students in AfCFTA competition
The competition seeks to create awareness among students on AfCFTA and related comparative advantages of Rwanda, according to the Economic Policy…
AfCFTA: Big economies afraid of 'cheating', says ECA's David
AfCFTA: Big economies afraid of ‘cheating’, says ECA’s David Luke, The CFTA is expected to promote value addition and consequently boost trade among…
East Africa to strengthen regional integration through AfCFTA
Representatives from 14 countries in East Africa have agreed to promote regional integration through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Somalia's Thorny Problems on the Horn of Africa
Editor’s Note: This assessment has been amended to delete a reference to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a Chinese infrastructure project.
Harnessing AfCFTA for gender equality is important - TMEA
Matsaert also shared his broad view on political will, how gender is a central issue, and the need to harness convincing arguments about how the AfCFTA should…
AfCFTA: Minister Ndagijimana urges greater political will to
Closing the three-day 22nd meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE), which focused on the implementation of the AfCFTA, the minister had…
ETHIOPIA : Behind the scenes of 'Operation METEC' - Issue 1486 dated 23/11/2018 - The Indian Ocean Newsletter
evening of 25 July with the now-deceased project director for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Simegnew Bekele, on the very eve of his death.
Madbouli reveals outcome of meetings with Algerian
The joint developmental fund will establish projects related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), according to Sudanese Foreign Minister Osama…
Ethiopia Offers Investors a Tantalizing, If Tainted, Promise
Indeed, the emphasis on critical — but expensive — infrastructure projects like the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has created an acute foreign exchange…
AfCFTA gives Africa hope - Zambia Daily Mail
With the coming of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which is aimed at creating an effective single market through the facilitation of the free movement…
AfCFTA: Moving from vision to action 'requires political will'
Trucks at Rusumo border post. Of the 49 countries on the continent that have signed the AfCFTA deal, only 12 have so far ratified it. Nadege Imbabazi.
Navigating Ethiopia's journey towards reconciliation and justice
tasked with building major projects, including the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), of perpetrating an outrageous plunder of the national wealth.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam nears completion, but not
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam nears completion, but not without controversy. By Jehron Muhammad | Last updated: Nov 20, 2018 – 9:02:39 PM.
We are committed to follow-up, continuation of GERD talks: Ethiopian PM
in order to achieve the desired understandings over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) for the benefit of the two peoples and the two countries.
Africans should be well informed about AfCFTA - expert
How exactly do you hope to help reach a regional consensus on how to move forward with implementing the AfCFTA? It’s important that policymakers from the…
Regional policymakers, experts to discuss AfCFTA
Signed in Kigali in March, the AfCFTA is a trade agreement initially endorsed by 44 AU member states, with the goal of creating a single market across the…
Afghanistan's Rivers Could Be India's Next Weapon Against
A similar dispute has been brewing between Egypt and Ethiopia as Egypt fears Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will reduce its share of the Nile…
MetEC management, Security members detained
Following the recent stalemates in the negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) · Politics | Mar 28. Ethiopia weathers US, Egypt…
Egypt: Negotiations on Ethiopia dam 'not easy'
Egypt is seeking to reach a “non-fragile” agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the country’s water resources and irrigation minister, Mohamed…
Dangote speaks on FG's signing of AfCFTA
Dangote said:I was in another forum recently and when the Ghanaian president was asked why the AfCFTA has not been signed by Nigeria and he pointed at me…
Egypt woos Sudan as upstream Nile basin states draw closer
a share of the the electricity to be generated from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and also to pressure Cairo into a compromise on the border dispute.
Will the next Middle East war be about water?
Construction on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began in 2017 on the Blue Nile, the largest of the two tributaries that supply about 85% of water into…
PAP winds up session with pledge to push for AfCFTA
Signed on March 21 in Kigali, the AfCFTA is a trade agreement initially endorsed by 44 AU member states. Its goal is to create a single market across the continent.
AfCFTA, the catalyst for Africa's growth
AfCFTA commits countries to remove tariffs on 90 per cent of goods, progressively liberalise trade in services, and address a host of other non-tariff barriers, like…
GERD to collapse within years: int'l dam expert
international dam expert Ahmed Al-Shennawi has predicted the collapse of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) after a few years of its operation.