Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday to witness the signing of three bilateral agreements in a multi-day trip that is expected to strengthen rapidly expanding economic ties between the two countries.…
South Africa and China are working on a renewal of their ten-year strategic partnership in a bid to boost a commercial relationship that has been hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
With three African candidates running for the post of director-general of the WTO and the continent’s exports held back by an unequal system of trade, Africa faces some tough decisions.…
Listen to African Business Podcast 12: the UK’s Trade and Investment priorities in Africa with Emma-Wade Smith
Podcast host Desné Masie was delighted to welcome our special guest for Episode 12, Emma Wade-Smith, Her Majesty’s trade commissioner for Africa to discuss the UK government’s trade and investment priorities in Africa post-Brexit, and the private sector support the Department for International Trade DIT) is extending for UK businesses operating on the African continent in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. …
Senegal, just like the whole of Africa, has everything to gain from a free trade area, suggests Assome Aminata Diatta, Senegal’s International Trade Director.…
After a phony war stretching to the earliest days of his presidency, Donald Trump fired off the loudest salvo yet in his trade battle with China in July.…
Twelve miles off the coast of Namibia and 150 metres above the ocean floor, a fleet of six vessels scans and sifts for the valuable diamonds that boost the economies of southern Africa.…
Four years into a presidency rich in bilateral visits, US President Barack Obama and his entourage finally landed in South Africa in June 2013.…
Six long years after the African Union’s decision to establish an African free trade area, policymakers met in Kigali this March to put their signatures to the most ambitious pact in the continent’s history.…
Amid great fanfare 44 African countries signed the long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) earlier this year.…
