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28-Jul-2017 The Herald
The African trade revolution afoot
In a tumultuous year for the global trading landscape, negotiations for a huge Africa-wide free trade area — the Continental Free Trade Area, combining the economies of 55 states comprising 1.2 billion people in a market with a GDP of $2.19 trillion — are progressing rapidly.
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20-Oct-2016 TDM
TDM Special Issue on Int’l Arbitration involving Commercial and Investment Disputes in Africa
This Special Issue presents diverse views on a number of salient topics affecting international arbitration involving the African continent.
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7-Feb-2008 Business Day
ANC MP accuses EU of ‘recolonising’ Africa
The biannual meeting of European and South African parliamentarians to discuss South Africa-EU relations got off to a rocky start yesterday when a top African National Congress MP accused the Europeans of recolonising Africa through EPAs.
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14-Sep-2006 PIB
Joint declaration of first IBSA Summit
The Prime Minister of India, H.E. Manmohan Singh, the President of Brazil, H.E. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the President of South Africa, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, expressed their full support and commitment to the expeditious establishment of the Working Group to focus on the modalities for the envisaged India-Mercosur-SACU Trilateral Free Trade Agreement (T-FTA).
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21-Jun-2023 Lexology
Zooming in on the Investment Protocol to the AfCFTA: a new era for investment disputes across Africa?
State parties consider whether to turn to traditional methods of investment dispute settlement mechanisms or more innovative solutions, such as an African investment court.
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12-Aug-2021 Nikkei Asia
In Africa, Biden finds a free trade zone he can embrace
Eager to tap into a promising market while burnishing his administration’s credentials on free trade now that rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership looks as distant as ever, U.S. President Joe Biden appears ready to engage a new free trade zone in Africa.
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13-Oct-2020 IISD
The need for “Africa-focused” arbitration and reform of Tanzania’s Arbitration Act
Tanzania has enacted significant changes to the legislation governing foreign investment in natural resources with the aim of ridding the sector of the vestiges of “colonial” relationships.
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22-Jul-2020 XinhuaNet
Africa free trade area to create new opportunities for China-Africa cooperation: expert
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will create new opportunities for China-Africa cooperation, an Ethiopian expert said on Tuesday.
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13-Feb-2019 Euractiv
Cotonou successor: EU-Africa relations at the crossroads
Negotiators are hoping to break the back on talks for the successor to the Cotonou Agreement, which expires in May 2020, between the EU and 79 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).
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4-Sep-2018 China Daily
An FTA between China, African nations will boost global trade
Many have suggested that China and African countries, represented by African Union, should launch a feasibility study on free trade and investment facilitation negotiation.