ISDS Case Map
African Union
African countries should prioritise upskilling and digitising the public service in order to accelerate
implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) protocols, especially in areas where tariff phasedown has been agreed.
With the Protocol on Investment (POI) to the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) adopted, the next question is, ‘ What’s in it and what’s next for the Continent”?
Kenya has committed to becoming the preferred gateway to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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 Trades Union Congress, Ghana (TUC-Ghana) is unhappy about neglect in the formulation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) policy.
Makthar Diop, the managing director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), says the Africa Free Trade Continental Agreement (AfCFTA) is becoming a lot of talk, and may not become a reality if laws and regulations are not fixed.
Liberia, an ECOWAS member state where importers mostly experience high tariffs on goods, which lead to inflation of prices on the local market, is yet to ratify the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Business owners across Africa are the powerhouses who keep the continent moving and economically viable. In the past, it was not always easy to run a business that traded on a broader scale across the continent.
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has published a Guide for Rules of Origin under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
Ethiopia is one of the African countries that will benefit from Afrexim Bank’s USD one billion package to recoup any losses incurred as a result of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).
