ISDS Case Map
Africa
The Gambia became the 22nd country to ratify the agreement effectively helping meet the minimum threshold.
The Belt and Road Initiative provides a framework for Chinese investment to enhance existing infrastructure as well as build new production sites and trade routes to better connect China with the rest of the world.
The National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) thrown its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to signed and ratified the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is nearing reality as only one country is left to ratify the Agreement for the deal to reach the 22 countries required for the Agreement to effectively come into force.
India Government is working on a comprehensive strategy to boost India-Africa bilateral trade.
How the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.
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).
China has been receiving flak for its conditional investments and loans that are resulting in land and resource grabbing in Asia and Africa.
If this agreement comes into force, it is likely, because of the peculiarities of the insertion of Africa into the world capitalist civilization, to be among the worst of the free-trade wave that is underway.
The entry into force of the AfCFTA is a decisive stage of the African Union’s neoliberal Pan-Africanist project.
