Intra-African Fair in Cairo told AfCFTA can end colonial legacy of exporting raw materials
Jean-Louis Ekra, Deputy Chairperson of the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2023) Advisory Council and a former President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).
Best African music performance is now new category in 2024 Grammy Awards
Two existing categories have been moved to the general field, which means that all Grammy voters can participate in selecting the winners: producer of the year, non-classical and songwriter of the year, non-classical, the latter of which was first introduced this past year.
Dismissal of soldiers accused of sexual abuse from UN peacekeeping in Congo alarms South Africa
A team of South African investigators is working with the UN Office of internal oversight, the statement continues, adding “as the investigation progresses, any identified victims will be referred for assistance in line with the UN Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse”.
US Secretary of State says President Biden is keen on improved US-Africa trade programme
Over $10 billion worth of African exports entered the United States duty free last year under the programme. However, the US International Trade Commission earlier this year highlighted major shortcomings.
Without peace to keep, UN winds up its missions in Africa, experts wary of risky security vacuum
Half of the UN’s 12 peacekeeping missions are in Africa, comprises about 86,000 military, police and civilian personnel. MONUSCO and MINUSMA, two of the biggest and most expensive operations, are working to fully withdraw by the end of 2023.
Millions of jobs in Kenya, South Africa and 3 others in limbo over AGOA trade initiative
Apparel has been the standout success story of AGOA, which launched in 2000 to help develop African economies and foster democracy. African apparel exports under the programme reached nearly $1.4 billion last year, double the pre-AGOA amount.
Poverty and corruption are transforming African coastal waters into world’s biggest transnational crime scene
Drug runners also exploit the hard-to-police waters of East Africa, including the island states of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, the French island of Réunion and the Seychelles, which has the highest per capita rate of heroin use in the world.
US to evict Gabon, Niger, Uganda and Central African Republic from Agoa trade programme
Launched in 2000, AGOA grants exports from qualifying countries duty-free access to the US market. It is set to expire in September 2025, but discussions are already underway over whether to extend it and for how long.
Africa: A young continent ruled by old men and where democracy is strangled by gerontocrats
Youthful uprisings first flared in 2011, during the Arab Spring, when an uprising in Tunisia inspired others in Egypt and Libya. Later, powerful demonstrations erupted in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Senegal and even Eswatini, a tiny kingdom of 1.2 million people in southern Africa.
Africa’s cultural conquest of West has gained pace through music, industrialisation is limping
African fashion had its own shows in Paris and Milan. In Venice, Africa is the focus of this year’s Architectural Biennale. Last year, an architect from Burkina Faso won the prestigious Pritzker Prize. In 2021, Tanzania-born Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
