West Africa can align thirteen nations to move gas across a continent. It still can't get a truck across a border in under three days. That...
ECOWAS reaffirms 2027 target for the ECO, a common currency meant to bind together economies from Nigeria's oil wealth to Sierra Leone's leone
Why the African Continental Free Trade Area will stall unless the continent moves quality control from the border to the marketplace, the way Europe did.
Regional trade blocs have bound Southern Africa's economies together for decades. But integration has not meant equality - and one country still calls most of the...
By Danilo Desiderio Five years into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the gap between promise and delivery threatens to undermine the continent’s boldest economic...
By Danilo Desiderio In 1748, the French philosopher Montesquieu made a prescient observation in The Spirit of Laws: “Peace is the natural effect of trade.” More...
By Dishant Shah Africa’s economic landscape is being shaped by eight major Regional Economic Communities (RECs), each striving – sometimes successfully, sometimes not – to drive...
By Danilo Desiderio A recent publication from AfCFTA Dialogues, a platform dedicated to raising awareness and fostering a deeper understanding of the African Continental Free Trade...
Angola is set to become the 14th member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Free Trade Area (FTA), following the successful conclusion of a Trade...
By Ronald Sanders Recently, the smaller member states of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) have renewed complaints that the promised benefits and compensatory mechanisms...
The African Development Bank revealed that it has developed a 10-year plan and strategy that would focus on the economic transformation of the African continent. In...
