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A special feature, profiling the annual flagship reports released today by the WTO and the WEF  (i)  World Trade Report 2019: The future of services trade On avera...

AfCFTA Ratifications Update, from @AmbMuchanga:  Good news. Mauritius has ratified the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement. We are moving and growing....

Diarise: The next meeting of the joint initiative on e-commerce at the WTO will be held on 22-25 October. The meeting will address data flow, privacy and facilitatio...

South Africa's former chief trade negotiator Wamkele Mene says South Africa can lead on improving the ease of movement of business people across borders on the continent, thro...

Regional Risks for Doing Business 2019: Sub-Saharan Africa (WEF)  Unlike other regions, the leading risks in 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa did not change from the...

WTO lowers trade forecast as tensions unsettle global economy Escalating trade tensions and a slowing global economy have led WTO economists to sharply downgrade their forecasts f...

Diarise: AmCham Business Summit 2019 (4-5 November, Nairobi)  Peter Draper: How should Africans respond to the investment, technology, security, and trade wars...

Olu Fasan: Farewell Chiedu Osakwe, Africa’s consummate trade diplomat (BusinessDay) Hardly has any other African, achieved anything close to what Osakwe did to develop...

Reporting African trade and industrialization trends, dynamics:  media workshops in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Addis Ababa (i) Next week in Johannesburg: ECA's AfCFTA Media Hub...

David Luke, Phil Rourke: Canada, Africa and the inclusive trade agenda  (Canadian Foreign Policy Journal) Canada's inclusive trade agenda has been put forward as part of the ...

Tributes continue to pour in following the death of Nigeria's chief trade negotiator and one of the AfCFTA's architects, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe.  A selection: (i)  Dav...

Featured tweet, Yinka Adeyemi: Chiedu Osakwe, Nigeria's chief trade negotiator, who chaired the Africa process that yielded the AfCFTA in Rwanda is dead. Was a global authority on ...

Keynote African trade policy discussions yesterday in Kampala: (i)  African Union Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs:  The entry into force of the Agreement ...

PwC's The Africa Business Agenda 2019: Kenya is top destination for companies seeking expansion in Africa The study by global audit firm PwC, conducted among chief executives arou...

ESAAMLG from Arusha to Ezulwini: Looking back and looking ahead (ESAAMLG) The report, ESAAMLG from Arusha to Ezulwini (1999-2019): Looking back and looking ahead (pdf), appropria...

Underway, in Moscow: VI BRICS International Competition Conference Diarise: The JSE SA Trade Connect (22-23 October, Johannesburg) AfCFTA updates from Cape Town, Nairobi, Kinsha...

AfCFTA sensitisation workshops: Malawi, Kenya Malawi to host AfCFTA sensitization workshops. The Ministry of Trade and Tourism, in partnership with the ECA and the AUC, is org...

The Third Ordinary Session of the AU’s STC on Communication and ICT starts in Addis Ababa on Monday. Profiled event document: The draft digital transformation strategy for Africa...

African Leapfrog Index: Getting Lions to Leapfrog With financial support from the Mastercard Impact Fund, the African Leapfrog Index – which was launched during the World Econom...

Rethinking the International Trade Architecture: address by WTO’s DDG Alan Wolff at the Institute for International Trade, Adelaide The topic of our conference is “Rethinking ...