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7-Aug-2019 African Law & Business
Investor-state disputes in Africa
In May 2017, out of 613 cases brought under the ICSID Convention and Additional Facility Rules, 135 cases involved African states, of which 45% were brought based on states’ consent in BITs.
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18-Feb-2017 Maghreb Emergent
Ndongo Samba Sylla, économiste sénégalais : « La Zone de Libre Echange Africaine est une erreur » (Entretien)
Docteur en Economie, ex-conseiller à la Présidence de la République du Sénégal, Samba Sylla explique pourquoi la ZLEC est « un suicide pour les pays africains ».
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23-Feb-2011 Bua News
South Africa pushes for new African FTA
South Africa is pushing ahead to secure a free trade agreement between the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for East African States (Comesa).
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12-Sep-2023 Zawya
United States and Africa: increased engagement regarding trade creating opportunities in the African free trade area
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in December 2022, between the United States (US) trade representative and the AfCFTA Secretariat at the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit (Summit) in Washington DC.
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29-Nov-2022 EABWNews
AU summit showcases Common African Agro-Parks
The African Union Members States, the Regional Economic Communities, the United Nations (FAO, UNIDO, ECA), and Development Partners converged to discuss the implementation and financing modalities for the establishment of the Common African Agro-Parks (CAAPs).
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4-Feb-2022 African Business
Lopsided EU trade agreements are harming Africa
Africa needs a more equal trade relationship with Europe where African countries are treated as partners, not serfs, argues Uganda’s presidential advisor on exports.
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5-Oct-2021 ISS Africa
Algeria-Morocco rift another blow to Africa’s free trade aspirations
Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra’s announcement on 24 August of a new break in diplomatic relations with Morocco is another setback for free trade and free movement on the continent.
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28-Sep-2021 Global Compliance News
Africa: China’s trade with the continent grows to record highs
Trade between China and Africa almost doubled between 2020 and 2021, and over the last 20 years trade between China and the region has increased twenty-fold.
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26-Aug-2021 ACBio
African social movements demand that AU suspends undemocratic and pro-industry seed and GMO guidelines and processes
More than 50 African groups denounce how the African Union is using the African Continental Free Trade Area as a justification to push the seed harmonisation agenda.
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28-Jun-2018 Pambazuka
“You dropping BRICS from above? We’re throwing bricks from below!”
Social movements resisting the policies and agendas of Brazil-Russia-India-China-SouthAfrica elites will make their voices heard during the BRICS summit in Johannesburg on 22-27 July.
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6-Apr-2018 Le Faso
Union Africaine et Accord-cadre de libre-échange : Pas décisif ou pas de Sisyphe ?
Accord de libre-échange en Afrique ou pour l’Afrique ? Accord pour autrui ou Accord pour les Africains ? Accords des Africains ou Accord d’autrui sous mains africaines ?
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28-Mar-2018 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Impact of foreign direct investment on arbitration in Africa
Whilst arbitrations involve African parties or interests, most of these arbitrations have their seat outside Africa.
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11-Jun-2015 Deutsche Welle
Half of Africa joins in a free trade zone
African leaders have established a single free trade area encompassing 26 countries and 625 million people in eastern and southern Africa. And next week, they’ll kick off a process to negotiate an all-Africa trade pact.
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1-Mar-2024 African Union
Operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area launched
The 12th Extraordinary summit of the African Union which was held in Niamey on the 7th of July 2019 was a momentous occasion for Africa, as it saw the successful launching of the operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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1-Mar-2022 The Africa Report
I confess, I am an AfCFTA sceptic
I do not share the view that the AfCFTA is the solution to Africa’s low level of intra-Africa trade. Neither do I believe that it will trigger the great transformation of Africa’s economies that its advocates assert it will.
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27-Oct-2021 Daily Sabah
African Union sees ‘huge potential’ for trade with Turkey
There is a huge potential when it comes to expanding and deepening relations between Turkey and African countries, the African Union’s commissioner for economic development, trade, industry and mining said.
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8-Jul-2020 African Law Blog
PAW2020: The future of ISDS in Africa
African states need to take a unified and proactive approach to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), in order to make a system that is fairer to Africa and more consistent.
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7-Nov-2019 Euractiv
Africa offers a test to von der Leyen’s ‘geopolitical Commission’
The African Union Commission’s high representative on Cotonou has warned that keeping the ACP framework will make it harder for the EU to agree on a ‘continent-to-continent instrument’.
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17-May-2019 Le Monde Diplomatique
La ZLEC, un afrolibéralisme caché derrière le masque du panafricanisme
La ZLEC, tout en relevant de l’idéologie afroliberale, a su se parer subtilement des atours du panafricanisme pour mener sa propagande.
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17-Apr-2019 Down to Earth
Rein in dairy exports to our continent: African farmers to EU
African dairy farmers protested outside the European Union HQ to demand that they don’t over-produce milk and then flood African markets.