ISDS Case Map
AfCFTA
African Continental Free Trade Area
Kenya’s President William Ruto has called on African leaders to take first steps towards ditching the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency by adopting a pan-African payments system to facilitate trade within the continent.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ahmed Attaf said Monday in Algiers that Africa could only turn the last page of the history of colonialism by allowing the Sahrawi people to exercise their inalienable and imprescriptible right to self-determination.
The Trades Union Congress, Ghana (TUC-Ghana) is unhappy about neglect in the formulation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) policy.
Speakers at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Industry (UNCTAD) workshop have indicated that Special Economic Zones (SEZ) are crucial for pushing Africa’s industrialisation agenda in the context of the AfCFTA.
At the industrialization policy conference in Harare, trade unions discuss whether trade and industrialization are a panacea to Zimbabwe’s economic woes. They also identified the role unions play in policy making to ensure that workers and communities benefit from trade.
There remains an ample room for Vietnamese exports to Africa, as the country accounts for only 0.6% of the continent's total import of 600 billion USD per year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, given opportunities brought about by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
The recently leaked investment protocol of the African Continental Free Trade Area shows the investor-state dispute resolution will be set out after the adoption of the protocol.
