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This report is based on the research done by FEMNET to assess the extent to which trade arrangements between African countries and the European Union facilitate African women’s economic empowerment and realization of their economic rights.
Le présent rapport est basé sur la recherche faite par FEMNET pour évaluer dans quelle mesure les accords commerciaux entre les pays africains et l’Union Européenne facilitent l’autonomisation économique des femmes et la concrétisation de leurs droits économiques.
The future of AGOA and US-Africa trade
| 6-February-2013
At a time when the US was struggling to stay on its two feet in the heat of a looming economic meltdown in 2008, were hopes of better trade deals with Africa unrealistic when President Barack Obama was elected into office?
World Bank urges Africa to reject EPAs with EU
| 16-November-2012
The World Bank’s Chief Economist for Africa, Shantayanan Devarajan has added his voice to the call on African countries to reject the Economic Partnership Agreements that the European Union is currently trying to force on them. 
The President of the African Organization for Standardization maintains that SADC, ECOWAS and EAC will continue to exist alongside the new African Free Trade Area.
Regional blocs seek to remove trade barriers
| 29-September-2012
Three regional economic communities (Recs) have taken the lead as Africa seeks to remove trade barriers by 2017.
Not yet Uhuru as long as interests of capitalist economies persist
| 22-September-2012
It cannot be Uhuru yet for Namibia and its partners, or should one say fellow downtrodden countries united in the economic bloc of the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) countries.
APE : La Commission Européenne met la pression sur l’Afrique, le Parlement s’érige en bouclier.
| 20-September-2012
Le parlement européen a adopté une résolution législative prolongeant la date butoir pour la mise en œuvre des accords de partenariat économique (Ape) intérimaires 2014 à 2016
La BAD prête à soutenir les pays africains à établir la Zone de libre-échange continentale vers 2017
| 30-July-2012
La Banque africaine de développement est prête à aider les pays africains à mettre en œuvre l’infrastructure physique et immatérielle nécessaire à l’établissement de la Zone de libre-échange continentale à l’horizon 2017, a déclaré, selon ce communiqué de presse, le président de l’institution, Donald Kaberuka. 
China has pledged $20bn (£12.8bn) in credit for Africa over the next three years, in a push for closer ties and increased trade. 
L’African Pineapples and Bananas Association fait front contre le tarif de douane préférentiel que l’Europe pourrait accorder à l’Amérique centrale.
UNCTAD to offer Africa assistance to boost intra-continental trade
| 24-April-2012
The UN Conference on Trade Development (UNCTAD) says it will offer assistance with three elements of the newly adopted African Union (AU) action plan on intra-African trade.
Africa: Coming Back to Bite
| 10-March-2012
African governments once rushed into signing bilateral investment treaties to encourage FDI. Lawyers are now calling for new models.
Une zone de libre-échange: de l’utopie?
| 11-November-2011
Les chefs d’Etat africains ont des plans ambitieux visant à créer une zone de libre-échange, regroupant 26 pays et plus de 600 millions de personnes sur le continent.
Africa’s Free Trade Zone: A Pie in the Sky?
| 5-November-2011
African heads of state have ambitious plans to create a free trade zone, encompassing 26 countries and more than 600 million people on the continent. But economic experts warn the project is a bold step that comes with a plethora of legal, administrative and political hurdles. Others suggest the plan might be a pie in the sky. 
The ACP and LDC cane sugar suppliers express their profound concern and dismay at the Commission’s proposals in respect of the elimination of sugar quotas in the context of the CAP reform announced on 12 October 2011. 
The ACP and LDC cane sugar suppliers express their profound concern and dismay at the Commission’s proposals in respect of the elimination of sugar quotas in the context of the CAP reform announced on 12 October 2011.
Africa still the odd one out
| 8-September-2011
While globally trade agreements are more and more about linking production chains between countries and continents, Africa remains locked in a struggle to overcome the colonial legacy of fragmentation, trade experts say. 
A quite amazing event took place in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on August 29 and 30. Two hundred representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from China and 19 African countries held a China-Africa People’s Forum.
África: Libre comercio con destino incierto
| 2-September-2011
Durante el último año y medio, el área tripartita de libre comercio dominó la agenda económica de África austral y oriental, pero no se sabe si impulsará la integración regional o profundizará las desigualdades existentes entre sus estados miembro |
L’accord entre l’Union Européenne et l’Inde menace l’accès aux traitements en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient
| 12-April-2013
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