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Climate-resilient transport infrastructure is the recipe that Africa needs to grow

A common topic that often emerges in the economic literature’s discussions on the high cost of transport in Africa is the lack and the poor status of infrastructure linking the different countries and regions in the continent. This factor is usually indicated as the main reason for the high price of African products and of the inability of Africa to compete in international markets. Instead, a less debated argument are the difficult geographical conditions faced by many African States - especially in Sub-Saharan Africa – that frequently need to cope up with floods, droughts, storms, and other natural disasters causing premature deterioration of such infrastructure and increased maintenance costs.

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Decolonizing African agriculture: option or utopia?

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently issued the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024. The report reveals that food insecurity in Africa remains the highest of any region, with rates of hunger that are on the rise. In 2023, 298.4 million people were estimated to have faced hunger, compared with 41.0 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 3.3 million in Oceania. This numbers have grown steadily since 2015. There is a clear trend of rising prevalence of undernourishment in Africa, in contrast with other regions like Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, where progress is being made or nutrition levels remain unchanged.

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“Augmented” AfCFTA e-Tariff Book now online

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) e-Tariff Book is a web-based electronic database that contains the updated Schedules of Tariff Concessions submitted by AfCFTA state parties and Customs Unions active in Africa, as well as information on tariffs applicable on goods exchanged between African countries within the AfCFTA liberalisation agenda. Launched by the AfCFTA Secretariat in July 2022, this tool provides an essential guidance to economic operators in African States that trade under the AfCFTA rules. The functions of the tariff book have been recently expanded, allowing now traders to easily determine the product-specific rule of origin (RoO) that their product needs to fulfil in order they can qualify for preferential trade under the AfCFTA.

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AfCFTA Protocol on Investment: trojan horse for foreign investors?

An article published on Bilaterals (a website that is notoriously critical about free trade, especially among countries with different development levels), argues that the AfCFTA Protocol on Investment could lead to a surge in land grabbing in Africa, especially by foreign investors, if not correctly implemented by State Parties. Land grabbing is the practice by foreign companies, nations, or individuals of purchasing or leasing large portions of land in Africa for agricultural production. Land grabbing is a growing concern in Africa which raises the risk of abuses in the forced expropriation of plots occupied by poor local and indigenous peoples.

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ECOWAS launches electronic certificate of preferential origin

The ECOWAS Commission has officially launched this week an electronic Certificate of Origin (eCO) as part of its efforts to facilitate trade in the region and promote better integration among the Community's member States.

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