Africa

Corporate sector in China’s Belt & Road: Impact on people’s access to land and water

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.

The African Continental Free Trade Area: What kind of pan-Africanism?

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.

The African Continental Free Trade Area: Free trade and pan-Africanism

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.

Ethiopia approves AfCFTA as AU eyes Feb. 2019 implementation date

4-Feb-2019 Africa News

Ethiopia is the latest country to approve the African Union’s Africa Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA pact after the cabinet passed the deal.

Manufacturers insist “no to African free trade”

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.

India, Mauritius discuss fast-tracking of free trade talks

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).

What the US-Africa strategy means for SA and the continent

8-Jan-2019 Moneyweb

The US-Africa Strategy seeks to re-position the US and bring it to par with China and Russia.

Why free trade will be a disaster for Africa

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.

Why we are worried over African Free Trade Agreement — Dangote, MAN, LCCI

8-Nov-2018 Vanguard

Business groups have supported the Nigerian Federal Government’s delay in signing the African Continental Free Trade Area, stressing that adequate measure should be put in place to prevent dumping of goods into Nigeria and Africa countries in general.

Joint ITUC-Africa/ETUC/ITUC statement on the EU-Africa EPAs and EU-Africa trade relations

28-Oct-2018 ETUC

Trade unions from Africa and Europe have followed with grave concern the negotiation and conclusion of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and regional groupings in Africa.

The untapped potential of EU-Africa trade

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.

Govt, business consult on Africawide FTA

13-Oct-2018 NewsDay

Government has opened consultations with industry on rules of origin (RoO) for the ambitious African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aimed at promoting duty-free flow of goods and services originating in the bloc.

’Moving into the heart of negotiations’ for Africa’s free trade agreement

12-Sep-2018 RFI

Some general concerns centre on the potential impact a continental free market could have on particular sectors of national economies.

EU’s Juncker eyes Africa free trade pact

12-Sep-2018 Reuters

The European Union could one day look to take advantage of African efforts to forge a free trade area within the continent to work toward a comprehensive continent-to-continent free trade agreement.

Tensions grow over the future of the ACP group

7-Sep-2018 Euractiv

The African Union wants to have a continent-to-continent dialogue with Europe, a change that could make the framework of the Cotonou Agreement implode and leave the Pacific and Caribbean states out in the cold.

An FTA between China, African nations will boost global trade

4-Sep-2018 China Daily

Many have suggested that China and African countries, represented by African Union, should launch a feasibility study on free trade and investment facilitation negotiation.

Africa prepares to drive a hard trade bargain with EU

4-Sep-2018 Euractiv

Increasing trade between the EU and the ACP, particularly African countries, lay at the heart of the ambition of the Cotonou Agreement. But it has not worked out that way.