Africa & Middle East
Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Africa and the Middle East.
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14-Feb-2019 Business Day SA-UK post-Brexit deal just about finalised
SA’s negotiations with the UK to ensure that a trade agreement is in place in the event that it exits the EU without a deal is 99% complete, trade and industry director-general Lionel October said. -
13-Feb-2019 The Herald Zim not yet ready for full AfCFTA
Zimbabwe should ramp up value addition and beneficiation of its products beforehand, says official. -
11-Feb-2019 MENAFN UK eyes free trade agreement with GCC countries in future, UK Minister tells WAM
UK Secretary of State for International Trade, has said that the UK enjoys strong trading relations with GCC countries and is looking forward to have a free trade agreement with the bloc in the right time. -
8-Feb-2019 CADTM Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine : Quel panafricanisme ? (Partie 3/3)
Il n’y a rien dans ce processus de la ZLECAf qui indique une réelle préoccupation de l’Union Africaine pour l’émancipation des peuples africains de l’exploitation et de la domination -
7-Feb-2019 Ecofin Afrique - Royaume-Uni: cinq pays africains concluent un accord de continuité commerciale avec Londres
L’accord qui a été signé avec les Comores, les Seychelles, Madagascar, Maurice et le Zimbabwe, vise à permettre la continuation des relations commerciales entre les cinq pays africains et le Royaume-Uni, malgré le Brexit. -
7-Feb-2019 The New Times MPs endorse Rwanda-Qatar investment treaty
Rwandan Members of Parliament kicked off their ordinary sessions by approving a bilateral investment treaty between Rwanda and Qatar. -
6-Feb-2019 International Viewpoint The African Continental Free Trade Area: What kind of pan-Africanism?
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. -
6-Feb-2019 CADTM Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine : Quel panafricanisme ? (Partie 2/3)
En cas d’entrée en vigueur de cet accord les conséquences risquent, à cause des particularités de l’insertion de l’Afrique dans la civilisation capitaliste mondiale, d’être parmi les pires de la vague libre-échangiste. -
4-Feb-2019 International Viewpoint The African Continental Free Trade Area: Free trade and pan-Africanism
The entry into force of the AfCFTA is a decisive stage of the African Union’s neoliberal Pan-Africanist project. -
4-Feb-2019 CADTM Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine : Quel panafricanisme ? (Partie 1/3)
C’est dans une dynamique d’assomption d’une orientation néolibérale du panafricanisme que s’inscrit la conception de la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine. -
4-Feb-2019 Africa News Ethiopia approves AfCFTA as AU eyes Feb. 2019 implementation date
Ethiopia is the latest country to approve the African Union’s Africa Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA pact after the cabinet passed the deal. -
31-Jan-2019 News Agency of Nigeria Manufacturers insist “no to African free trade”
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. -
28-Jan-2019 Defimedia En Inde : Pravind Jugnauth annonce la signature d’un accord de partenariat économique
L’Inde et Maurice sont sur le point de signer un accord de partenariat économique global visant à approfondir les relations entre les deux pays. -
23-Jan-2019 L’Express Maurice Post-Brexit: Maurice signe un accord commercial avec le Royaume-Uni
Il entrera en vigueur dans l’éventualité de la sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’UE. Il garantira l’accès préférentiel des produits locaux au marché britannique, soit en duty free et sans quota. -
22-Jan-2019 Jerusalem Post Ukraine and Israel sign massive free trade agreement
The expectation is that this deal will bring trade between the two countries to over $1 billion within five years. -
21-Jan-2019 Infomédiaire Commerce : Les pays arabes veulent leur zone de libre-échange
Les dirigeants arabes ont appelé à Beyrouth, à l’issue du 4ème sommet arabe sur le développement économique et social, à l’activation de la zone arabe de libre échange. -
8-Jan-2019 Moneyweb What the US-Africa strategy means for SA and the continent
The US-Africa Strategy seeks to re-position the US and bring it to par with China and Russia. -
7-Jan-2019 Monde Diplomatique Why free trade will be a disaster for Africa
African countries, backed by the EU, want internal and external free trade, which will wreck local agriculture, and rural economies and societies. -
19-Dec-2018 Vanguard Nations agree to spur trade in East Africa
Members of the East African Community to implement trade facilitation reforms including reducing “non-tariff barriers”. -
18-Dec-2018 Business Day Brexit will not disrupt trade relations between UK and SA, says Davies
The Southern African Customs Union is close to finalising a deal with the UK to replicate the existing economic partnership agreement which the customs union has with the EU, says South African trade and industry minister.
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African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) legal texts and policy documents
Tralac’s page on the African Continental Free Trade Area -
SEATINI Uganda
The Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) is a regional non-governmental organization founded in 1996 soon after the WTO Singapore Ministerial Conference — mainly focusing on WTO, but also bilateral and regional trade negotiations in Africa. -
SEATINI Zimbabwe
The Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) is an African initiative to strengthen Africa’s capacity to take a more effective part in the emerging global trading system and to better manage the process of globalization.
