12-Feb-2019
People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
China has been receiving flak for its conditional investments and loans that are resulting in land and resource grabbing in Asia and Africa.
6-Feb-2019
International Viewpoint
If this agreement comes into force, it is likely, because of the peculiarities of the insertion of Africa into the world capitalist civilization, to be among the worst of the free-trade wave that is underway.
4-Feb-2019
International Viewpoint
The entry into force of the AfCFTA is a decisive stage of the African Union’s neoliberal Pan-Africanist project.
31-Jan-2019
News Agency of Nigeria
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has again warned Nigeria against signing the African Continental Free Trade Area to save Nigeria from being a dumping ground for foreign goods.
24-Jan-2019
The Hindu Business Line
India and Mauritius discussed initiatives to strengthen bilateral ties including the early finalisation of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Partnership Agreement (CEPCA).
7-Jan-2019
Monde Diplomatique
African countries, backed by the EU, want internal and external free trade, which will wreck local agriculture, and rural economies and societies.
23-Oct-2018
Project Syndicate
If the EU is to seize the economic opportunities that Africa offers, it will need to work with the continent’s leaders to forge a new kind of partnership that treats African countries as equals. Simply put, the new EU-Africa relationship must be based on trade, not aid.
29-Aug-2018
Premium Times
The US is looking for African countries that would be interested in having bilateral free trade agreements with.
14-Aug-2018
New Dehli Times
Mauritius is the first African country that launched the FTA negotiations with China; MoU over the Belt and Road Initiatives is under negotiation.