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  • 1-Feb-2017 Pulse
    African leaders agree deal on continental free trade

    This agreement is in furtherance of the commitment made by African leaders in Addis Ababa in 2012 towards the establishment of the CFTA.

  • 16-Nov-2012
    World Bank urges Africa to reject EPAs with EU

    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.

  • 23-Jul-2008 Afrique Echos
    EPA or development? Your choice

    The EPA will be disastrous for Africa. Its acceptance would amount to locking the continent into some kind of economic vacuum where its manouevring space would be drastically limited because of the exclusivity of such a deal, especially since the evidence shows that no country in the world has taken off with such bogus and demeaning arrangements.

  • 13-Dec-2007 Asia Times
    China outwits the EU in Africa

    During the past several years, an increasing number of differences have arisen in the strategic partnership forged between China and the European Union. Among the many critical issues clouding the mutual agenda are differing policy approaches towards Africa.

  • 3-Jul-2007
    African leaders cautioned on EPAs

    Africa Trade Network and Economic Justice Network of Ghana, both civil society organisations have issued a strong warning to African Governments to desist from signing up on the EU-led Economic Partnership Agreements aimed at establishing a new WTO compatible trading arrangement, removing progressively barriers of trade between EU and Africa.

  • 28-Oct-2006 Legal Week
    Africa: Arbitration nation

    A number of African governments have made efforts to encourage investment in the continent by entering into bilateral investment treaties and adopting arbitration legislation.

  • 13-Oct-2006 AllAfrica.com
    Africa: Trade still prime engine for prosperity in Africa, official says

    The United States is doubling the number of its trade and investment framework agreements (TIFAs) in Africa.

  • 3-Mar-2015 African News Agency
    On a free trade mission in Africa

    Treasure Maphanga is one of Africa’s most important women, with arguably the continent’s toughest job on her hands: driving the establishment and implementation of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).

  • 20-Jul-2011
    Free trade is not what Africa needs, Mr Cameron

    On his trip to South Africa yesterday, David Cameron talked of the need to go beyond debt cancellation and aid "to make African free trade the common purpose of the continent". He lamented there has never once been "a march or a concert to call for … an African free trade area". He pointed to the need for more inter-African trade to facilitate the growth that would mean "businesses growing, new jobs on offer, families on the up, living standards transformed".

  • 5-Sep-2008
    Standing firm and acting together against EPAs!

    The EPAs are not fundamentally concerned about African development but are designed to further the geo-economic aims of the ‘Global Europe’ strategy being pushed from Brussels in the interest of European corporations and capital. Declaration from Africa Trade Network.

  • 13-Jul-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Southern Africa: EU official ’creating rift’

    A top European Union official has been seeking to create divisions between South Africa and its neighbours in talks aimed at establishing a free trade deal, African diplomats have alleged.

  • 12-Jun-2007
    EU-Africa experts to meet amid hot critics on EPAs

    European Union (EU) and African experts are scheduled to meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week to discuss key issues on the EU-Africa cooperation. Agendas for the meeting might include EU-ACP cooperation-related issues, progress on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations and African Union matters.

  • 29-Feb-2024 AfronomicsLaw
    The AfCFTA’s digital `trade rules are not fit for Africa

    African heads of state are slated to meet this weekend for the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union and they could be prompted to make an unforced error that could weigh heavily in the continent’s plans to promote digital industrialization and the bridging of the digital divide.

  • 11-Jun-2023 The North Africa Post
    Kenya calls on Africa to use PAPSS to ditch US dollar in trade deals

    Kenya’s President William Ruto has called on African leaders to take first steps towards ditching the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency by adopting a pan-African payments system to facilitate trade within the continent.

  • 26-Jan-2022 African Business
    UK-Africa summit closes with millions in ‘misguided’ investment

    Grand UK investments in Africa’s green energy transition are more focussed on boosting British exports in an ’unsustainable’ trade relationship,’ development experts say.

  • 28-Sep-2021 East African Community
    EAC Secretary General urges AfCFTA Secretariat to adapt a private sector-led and people-centered approach to boost intra-African trade

    The East African Community Secretary General urged the AfCFTA Secretariat to adapt an integration approach that is people-centred, market-driven and private sector-led, to ensure African citizens benefit from the continental agreement.

  • 31-May-2021 7 Jours Info
    Les enjeux de la Zone de Libre Echange Continentale Africaine et à qui profitera-t-elle ?

    Les pays qui vont profiter de cette zone de libre échange continentale africaine, sont ceux qui découvrent et exploitent les matières premières des pays africains, notamment les grandes multinationales occidentales.

  • 22-Jun-2020 Afronomics Law
    An early assessment of the prospective Kenya-United States trade agreement

    Kenya’s negotiations with the United States while the African Union is in ongoing negotiations on a future agreement between African countries makes this a transitional moment in Africa’s trading relationship with the West.

  • 25-Nov-2019 Gulf News
    Africa’s free trade deal has GCC interested

    The GCC states are drawn to the African states’ promise, especially as the new continental trade deal will facilitate opportunities and unlock growth in parts of Africa that were previously difficult to access.

  • 3-Jun-2019 AIDC
    The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: Loss of sovereignty, lack of transparency

    Rather than making drastic structural changes to the systems of production within Africa, the AfCFTA may intensify the ‘race to the bottom’ between working classes on the continent.