African Continental Free Trade Area - a Pipe Dream or Silver Bullet?

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African Continental Free Trade Area - a Pipe Dream or Silver Bullet?

[Daily Maverick] Trade within Africa is of better quality than its trade with the rest of the world. The African Continental Free Trade Area can potentially help African countries transform by expanding domestic productive capacity, enabling them to move up the value chain and diversify local and export production.

Source: allAfrica.com

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Africa: PAFTRAC Challenges WTO to Hear Africa's Voice

[Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee] Cairo -- Following a meeting convened by the Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) and hosted by the Afreximbank, a communiqué addressed to members of the WTO and the eight candidates who have been shortlisted

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa's Leap to Clean Energy Seen Needing Policy Change, Investment

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Study predicts that fossil fuels will still account for two thirds of the electricity generated on the continent by 2030

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Rwanda: Kagame Hails Launch of Trading Under AfCFTA

[New Times] As African countries kick off trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, President Paul Kagame has welcomed the latest development.

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Ivorian Authorities Want Locals to Keep Up with COVID-19 Measures | Africanews

Ivorian authorities are concerned about locals slacking off coronavirus-prevention measures in light of a drop in daily new infections in the country.

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Africa: Beyond the Year of Return - Africa and the Diaspora Must Forge Closer Ties

[Africa Renewal] - Ghana Mission in Washington DC

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African Continental Free Trade Area launches - Voice Online

THE AFRICAN Union (AU) has launched the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). In an... The post African Continental Free Trade Area launches appeared first on Voice Online.

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Africa: Covid-19 Death Toll Surpasses 34,000 as Total Cases Exceed 1,4 Million

[allAfrica] As of September 23, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries have reached 1,420,664. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 34,323, and recoveries 1,168,363.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ebola: WHO alerts six African nations over new resurgence | Africanews

Between 2013 and 2016 more than 11,000 people died in the West Africa Ebola epidemic, which began in Guinea.

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Africa: Over 40,000 Covid-19 Deaths Across Continent

[allAfrica] As of October 21, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries have reached 1,665,755. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 40,228, and recoveries 1,369,189.

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Illicit financial flows costing Africa $89 billion annually - UN

UNCTAD say the scale and scope of illicit capital flight is equivalent to 3.7% of Africa’s GDP.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Africa: Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Forum On China-Africa Cooperation

[Daily News] THIS year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).

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Rwanda: Cancer Cases Double in Four Years

[New Times] The number of people who have contracted cancer since 2015 has more than doubled, rising from 2,115 cases to 5,040 in 2019, the Director of Cancer Diseases Unit at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), Marc Hagenimana, has said.

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Nairobi-based Company Turns Plastic Waste into Eco-Friendly Bricks | Africanews

An Eco-Friendly Manufacturing Plant is Turning Plastic into Bricks

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Hopeful Future for Africa amidst Today's Reality - African Voice Newspaper

By Olakunle Agboola - One of the major problems tormenting the continent is the unstable and opaque political environment. Most African countries are yet to establish fully-functioning and transparent governmental structures, having gone through two liberation stages. First, breaking free from

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Covid and conflicts compete for attention at African Union summit | News24

African leaders are expected to focus on the continent's Covid-19 response at a virtual summit this weekend, as well as pressing security crises that have gone overlooked during the pandemic.

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As US struggles, Africa’s COVID-19 response is praised

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At a lecture to peers this month, John Nkengasong showed images that once dogged Africa, with a... View Article The post As US struggles, Africa’s COVID-19 response is praised appeared first on TheGrio.

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Africa: Continental Free Trade Critical to Improve Africa' Investment - ECA

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a game changer for investment on the continent which in recent years has seen foreign direct investment (FDI) continuing to weaken, Regional Integration and Trade Division Director at the Economic Commission of Africa

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Africa: Total Number of Covid-19 Cases Across Continent Exceeds 1,3 Million

[allAfrica] As of September 8, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries have reached 1,306,532. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 31,522, and recoveries 1,045,252.

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Rwanda: Government Pledges Safety as Covid-19 Vaccine Roll Out Nears

[New Times] The Ministry of Health has promised that it will undertake all necessary precautionary measures to ensure that people are safe while being vaccinated for Covid-19.

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Africa: Kagame - Africans Must Connect Easily Despite Covid-19 Pandemic

[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Tuesday, December 8, made the case for continued collaboration among African countries, which he said will be critical for the continent to emerge from the current Covid-19 period in safety and prosperity.

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Africa: South African President Warns Pandemic Has Set Back African Development

[UN News] Despite the continent-wide approach taken by African countries to combat COVID-19, the pandemic has set back their development aspirations, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

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Africa: Can Solar Fridges Helping Vaccinate African Children Work for Covid-19?

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Solar powered refrigerators keep vaccines cold, even in places with no power

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Medical colonialism in Africa is not new

EARLY last year, a French doctor caused controversy when he proposed that vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic be tried on Africans because they lack masks and other personal protective equipment. Karsten Noko After widespread accusations of racism, he was forced to apologise for what he called his

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Africa: AfCFTA - How Intellectual Property Rights Can Help Create Jobs

[Africa Renewal] The Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is ambitious. Bringing together 55 African Union member states, it will form the world's largest free trade area by the number of participating countries.

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British fund, EIB target stake in Shelter Afrique

British investment fund CDC Group is among four global development finance lenders gunning for membership in pan-African housing financier Shelter Afrique.

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African Rights Court Seeks to End 'Vagrancy Laws'

[East African] The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights wants Africa to repeal laws which criminalise the status of individuals as being poor, homeless as opposed to reprehensible acts.

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Africa: Covid-19 Deaths Near 40,000 Across Continent

[allAfrica] As of October 19, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries have reached 1,646,278. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 39,747, and recoveries 1,354,446.

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Africa: Benefitting from the AfCFTA - A Manchester Trade-sponsored Discussion

[Manchester Trade] Prudence Sebahizi of the African Union Commission, Stephen Lande of Manchester Trade -- a Washington-based advisory firm -- and I recently got together for a chat before trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) started on January 1, 2021. These renowned

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Africa: 'Skills, Technological Advancement, Will Give us the Africa We Want' - President Tells AU Assembly

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Dr. George Manneh Weah, has called on African countries to focus efforts on crafting policies and programs that can create skills and technological advancement on the continent. Delivering a statement on behalf

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