This blog is one of three articles by Tamrat A. Gelu under the umbrella theme of Cooperation over the Blue Nile is the Way forward for Egypt. Part I…

This blog is one of three articles by Tamrat A. Gelu under the umbrella theme of Cooperation over the Blue Nile is the Way forward for Egypt. Part I…
This blog is one of three articles by Tamrat A. Gelu under the umbrella theme of Cooperation over the Blue Nile is the Way forward for Egypt. Part I…
The AfCFTA is an AU Agenda 2063 flagship initiative established to create an integrated continental market for goods and services and to support the movement of…
Formally launched by the Secretary of the national action committee, AfCFTA, Francis Anatogu,the launch had in attendance NECA, ANWBN, NASSI, MAN,…
Namibia is amongst the 33 African member states that have signed and ratified the AfCFTA with the African Union Commission. Mbumba said although AU…
The AfCFTA will also improve the prospects of Africa as an attractive investment destination. It will help advance the empowerment of Africa’s women, by improving…
With trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, expected to start January 1, 2021, officials and experts say, a lot of ground as…
As the AfCFTA is expected to commence in January 2021, stakeholders discuss the ratification in view of Nigeria’s intended reopening of its land borders.
He said AfCFTA was a key pillar of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, the continent’s broad 50-year development roadmap. Botswana, President Masisi said, was”…
The introduction of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) brings challenges, but those can be overcome to build a more competitive African economy,…
Come Jan. 1, Africa will be home to the largest free trade area in the world. Although the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), doesn’t go so far as to…
African youth have been called upon to own and take lead role in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and Agenda 2063. The…
The effective date for the AfCFTA agreement to come into force ought to have been July 2020, however, it was postponed to Jan. 1, 2021, as a result of the…
Lilongwe – The Malawi government says it has put in place measures in readiness for the Africa Continent Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as it rolls out on January 1,…
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) has been touted as an economic and globalization game changer because it has the potential to…
We need to work together and in a very practical way so as to ensure Sudan benefits from the AfCFTA and makes the most of its strong points, its workforce,…
Trading under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) officially commences this Friday, January 1, 2021, after years of ambitious planning and…
What is the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)?. African leaders attend a meeting to sign a free trade deal that would create a liberalized.
Le imprese africane si stanno attrezzando per l’apertura del mercato di 1,2 miliardi di persone, tra sfide sulle concessioni tariffarie, regole di origine e scambi di…
Ratified by 54 African nations, the AfCFTA creates a continent-wide free trade area, and is a strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and…
Dar es Salaam. Regional experts explained why countries should not fear joining the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which is touted as a game…
The Federal Government announced its commitment to Nigeria’s manufacturing sector and says the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) will…
The Federal Government has asked states across the nation should take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement in a bid to…
This sends a strong signal that the African continent is serious about regional integration and lays a robust foundation for successful implementation of the AfCFTA…
The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) seeks to liberalize trade and services across the African continent, making it the largest free-trade…
Barely two months to the start of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), only 26 percent of firms in Ghana are aware of the trade deal, the second…
Africa in the news: Post-election updates, Nigeria ratifies AfCFTA, and continued unrest in Ethiopia- Post-election updates in Cfte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Tanzania.
Less than six weeks to the start of trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, time is running out for countries to conclude and…
Kenya needs cement to be able to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). Exports such as flowers…
Also speaking, AfCFTA, Mene Wamkele expressed satisfaction that Nigeria is ready to deposit the instrument of ratification of the AfCFTA, noting that he is looking…
This summer, record Nile River flow and flood resulted in devastating loss of life, human suffering, and property damage. East Africa was hit especially hard. These floods were primarily driven…
AfCFTA key in driving auto sector investment momentum on the continent, Nissan boss. By Xolisa Phillip, in Johannesburg Posted on Thursday, 29 October 2020…
But looking to the complex trade relations already brewing in West Africa, many of the problems the AfCFTA is likely to face on the continent are already being…
Expected to kick off next year, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), will be a game changer for investment on the continent, which in recent years…
This includes a moving effective date for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), which slid from July 1 to possibly January 1, 2021, to avoid…
He further called on member states to pay attention to digital infrastructural elements associated with the operationalisation of the AfCFTA in January 2021 in order…
She said that the ATO would be an essential tool in AfCFTA implementation. She added that RECs’ presence on the Steering Committee portrayed a united front…
Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement is fundamental to the post-pandemic economic recovery, Hani Salem Sonbol, CEO…
In his speech, the president reiterated the government’s commitment to assisting Ghanaian enterprises to take advantage of the coming into force of the AfCFTA.
With the COVID-19 pandemic creating a global crisis, cross-border trade legal observers have said the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) deal,…
The National Conference is organised by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI), the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) and the National AfCFTA…
The buzz and excitement around African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), hailed as the answer to a fully integrated pan-African economy, has…
AfCFTA: key to Covid rebound? The economic recovery from Covid-19 in Africa will also require the boosting of trade, which suffered from coronavirus-related…
The AfCFTA drafters have a singular opportunity to fashion a regime that supports modern investment policies by promoting sustainable development while…
While there is general optimism surrounding the promise of the AfCFTA to aid economic development, there must also be recognition that, like all free trade…
The AfCFTA drafters have a singular opportunity to fashion a regime that supports modern investment policies by promoting sustainable development while…
According to the assessment, AfCFTA modalities on goods trade will lead to an increase in GDP of all African countries, with a projected growth of between 0.35…
More than any other time in history, now is the time for regional cooperation in the Nile River Basin. In the summer of 2020, the Nile River reached its highest…
This was disclosed by Mr. Francis Anatogu, Secretary, National Action Committee on AfCFTA, in an interview with TVC News on Friday afternoon. On concerns É
The AfCFTA is a framework agreement, covering trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property rights and competition policy. Protocols on trade in…
The people of Sudan are nowhere near where they ought to be. Towns and villages along the Nile, including the capital Khartoum, are underdeveloped and lack proper planning and supporting…
GUEST COLUMNIST BY Abdul Samad RABIU. I start by congratulating African leaders on the opening of the AfCFTA secretariat last month. I believe the…
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reached a significant milestone when the first year of the first stage filling, that is expected to span two years, was completed in July…
Member states agreed under the AfCFTA to liberalise 90 percent tariff lines of non-sensitive products within five years for developing countries and 10 years for…
The history of water use in the Nile basin is riddled with biased, one sided colonial treaties and agreements between colonial powers and their protectorates. Since 1891, a series of…
The Nile basin, for the first time in its history, is experiencing a change in the status quo of the region. This is largely due to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance…
Ethiopia has a considerable renewable energy endowment, with an abundant hydropower potential, wind, solar and geothermal, as well fossil fuels. Hydropower constitutes almost 92.5% of the total energy mix and…
He appealed to member states that have not ratified their agreement to AfCFTA to do so before the next AU summit in December, saying it would pave the way for…
Interview: AfCFTA needs dedicated fund, strong leadership to succeed: expert. Source: Xinhua| 2020-08-25 10:05:47|Editor: huaxia. Video PlayerClose. ACCRA,…
The government of Ghana has officially commissioned and handed over the headquarters of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat to the African Union in Accra
The African Union announced in August 2020 that negotiations around the first commercial trade deal under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (…
During the official commissioning and handing over of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat (AfCFTA) building in Accra last week, Ghanaian…
GUTA demands clear rules of origin for AfCFTA. Fri, 21 Aug 2020 Source: Goldstreet Business. The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is asking all key…
The African Union announced that the first commercial deal under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to take place on January 1,…
-A note by Ethiopian- and Sudanese-American professionals to the African Union. Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have been in intense negotiation for the last several weeks. The three countries have…
President Akufo-Addo will, on Monday, August 17 hand over the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat Building to the African Union…
Dr Matsheka said,”AfCFTA brings Africans together to reorganise themselves to achieve economic freedom, which should translate into solid and sustainable…
Why would the AfCFTA succeed, when the billions of dollars in foreign aid that has found its way to African countries to aid the attainment of ‘self-sustainment’, has…
Alors que le monde a les yeux rivés sur la pandémie Covid-19, ce juillet 2020 annonce le début de la fin d’une injustice séculaire sur l’utilisation des eaux du Nil.…
One of the objectives of the AfCFTA is to promote industrial development through diversification and regional value chain development, Agricultural Development,…
The delay in the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) creates an opportunity to extend the market being created, Alain Nkontchou,…
In the past few years, Ethiopia’s energy requirements have increased immensely due to pressures in population, minimum living needs such as sanitation and lighting, and resource demands of vital projects…
The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) could catalyze development and growth of Africa, and help the continent recover from the…
Moussa Faki Mahamat, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, in a cheerful mood after the launch of AfCFTA on March 21, 2018 in Kigali.
Engineer Simegnew Bekele Aynalem was the first Chief Project Manager of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). From the inception of the project that he managed until his untimely death,…
Some 85 years ago, in 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie I stood before the General Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva to make a speech that would make him an…
Favorable hydrologic conditions, not seen in the Nile River Basin for the last two decades, in some cases a century, should encourage negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Sudan. This…
African leaders have shot themselves in the foot by postponing the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) until 2021. Sub-Saharan…
If policymakers act fast to seize the opportunities that this “ABC” triangle of events offers and reset U.K-Africa trade relations, a win-win partnership can emerge.
Recently the Ethiopian Foreign Minister, H.E. Gedu Andargatchew delivered a brief about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a hydroelectric dam construction on the Blue Nile River. His audience were…
On June 19, 2020 Egypt, citing a failure to reach an agreement, sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) accusing Ethiopia of intransigence. The second of such…
Ethiopians do not know the value of their water resources; they have yet to realize it. Dr. Seleshi Bekele. Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia In the…
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretary-general Wamkele Mene has described the agreement as sending”a strong signal to the international…
The secretariat will take advice from health officials as it works to implement the deal and revive economic growth on the continent. While the agreement entered…
At a high level, AfCFTA is focused on stimulating growth, creating employment and diversifying economies across the continent through the creation of a single…
By Alazar Feleke The 1902 Treaty has often been referred to a Treaty between Ethiopia and Egypt and that this treaty addressed the use of the Nile Waters. It should…
Arguably, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is just the game-changer the continent needs right now. The agreement is a necessary but not…
Rivers do not flow in a vacuum. The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world with its headwaters on the White Nile and its major tributary the Abay (Blue Nile) originating in the Ethiopian highlands.…
The start of trading for the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) originally due to commence on 1 July 2020 has been delayed due to the Covid-19…
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is one of the greatest examples of Pan-Africanism since the creation of the African Union (AU).
TAR: How much of a blow to Africa’s economies is the postponement of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)?. Oramah:…
In good times, with Europe accounting for around 30% of African trade, there has been little appetite to upset the status quo. In times of economic unease, African…
The Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, Sunday, urged African leaders on implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, to tackle…
Describe the impact of COVID-19 on AfCFTA so far? The African economy was set to grow at about 3.4% in 2019 and projected to increase to 3.9% in 2020, but…
The AfCFTA, which was due to be implemented on July 1, will be the largest free trade area in the world, uniting 1.3 billion people in a $3.4 trillion economic…