East African Policymakers Agree to Expedite Regional Economic Integration

BY XINHUA Some 300 policymakers and economic stakeholders drawn from 14 East African countries wrapped up a four-day high-level conference on regional integration in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea with an agreement to expedite regional economic integration, the Eritrea Ministry of Information (MoI) said on Saturday.

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African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Towards Unity and Harmonization, Eventually…

Arguably, the long-term benefits of AfCFTA outweigh the short-term challenges a country may face if it joins. BY METKEL SEWRA | SHABAIT Forty four out of fifty five African countries signed the consolidated text of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement during the 18th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of African Union (AU) […]

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President Guelleh Puts Himself Under Ethiopia’s Protection

By African Intelligence, THE plan for economic integration devised by Djibouti and neighbouring Ethiopia could ultimately lead to a kind of political unification between the two countries. During the last few weeks, certain Ethiopian dignitaries have hinted at it and one of them even went so far as to utter “a single country with two chiefs”. […]

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