Search results « africa »
-
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 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.
-
23-Apr-2011
EPAs are bad for Africa
The position taken by Namibia with regard to the signing of the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is commendable and should be a guiding principle for further negotiating trade agreements between Africa and the rest of the world.
-
5-May-2022 Eurasia Review
Russia’s meandering return path to investing in Africa – OpEd
United States, European Union and their Pacific allies’ sanctions are fast-driving Russia towards Africa. As the sanctions bite, Russia continues stepping up to realign with Africa, stemming its policy with mountainous pledges.
-
23-Sep-2015 The New American
In African Union, globalist agenda becomes clear
The continent of Africa is being unified economically and politically under an EU-style continental regime beyond the reach of citizens. And the entire integration agenda is, in fact, being supported by powers that do not have the interests of Africans in mind.
-
8-Nov-2023 Modern Diplomacy
South Africa hosts AGOA forum aims at strengthening US-Africa trade relations
South Africa prepares to host the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum to review critical challenges and obstacles adversely impacting trade opportunities and economic cooperation between the United States and Africa.
-
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
-
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.
-
21-Sep-2023 The Nation
The new colonialist food economy
This past summer, the global trade regime finalized details for a revolution in African agriculture. Under a pending draft protocol on IPR, the trade bodies sponsoring the AFCFTA seek to lock all 54 African nations into a proprietary and punitive model of food cultivation.
-
19-Dec-2007 AllAfrica.com
Africa united against EU arrogance
The recent summit between African heads of states and the EU has shown that Europe has failed to move beyond their colonial-era past-times of economic and political bullying.
-
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.
-
28-Sep-2023 Engineering News
South Africa to motivate for AGOA renewal for Africa’s development
South Africa will motivate for the extension and renewal of the US preferential trade framework the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for itself and other African countries.
-
16-Jul-2020 GRAIN
¿Qué significan los TLCs para las mujeres en África? Una revisión crítica del Área Continental Africana de Libre Comercio
¿Qué significan los TLCs para las mujeres en África? Una revisión crítica del Área Continental Africana de Libre Comercio
-
4-Dec-2015 All Africa
South Africa: government signs twenty-six agreements worth R94 billion with China
More than twenty agreements signed as President Zuma hosts President Xi Jinping on a State Visit.
-
13-Dec-2021 GRAIN
O que significam as ALCs para as mulheres Africanas? Um olhar crítico sobre a Área de Livre Comércio Continental Africana
O que significa este acordo comercial para as mulheres Africanas e para o seu papel na produção e comércio de alimentos no continente?
-
9-Jul-2020 GRAIN
What do FTAs mean for African women? A critical look into the African Continental Free Trade Area
What does this trade deal mean for African women and their role in the continent’s food production and trade?
-
16-Aug-2019 Mondaq
African states launch the operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, creating one of the largest common markets in the world
The AfCFTA entered into force on May 30, 2019 for all States that have ratified the Agreement. Trading under the agreement will begin on July 1, 2020.
-
20-Aug-2008 LaRRI
EPAs: The new game of divide and rule
It will be critical in the coming months to mobilise resistance to the implementation of the Interim EPA in its current format and thereby strengthen the Namibian Government’s hand not to sign a final EPA with the EU. Namibia should also link up with African and international campaigns against EPAs, which have emerged in the past few years. The battle is not lost but there is little time left to prevent EPAs from becoming a new and powerful tool to promote EU interests at the expense of Africa’s development needs. A new publication from the Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI).
-
28-Oct-2018 ETUC
Joint ITUC-Africa/ETUC/ITUC statement on the EU-Africa EPAs and EU-Africa trade relations
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.
-
11-Jan-2007 L’Express
Triangular cooperation Mauritius-India-Africa: The Mauritian perspective
The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) was yet again the focal point of discussions between Mauritian International Trade Minister Madun Dulloo and his Indian counterpart Kamal Nath last week in Delhi. CECPA, whilst being a powerful bilateral instrument to enhance trade and economic ties between our two countries, is also an inventive collaborative effort which will ultimately make of Mauritius the ideal step-stone on the India to Africa economic route.