Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are participating to the pilot phase of the Corridor Trip Monitoring System (CTMS), a project for the electronic monitoring and surveillance of cargo and truckers movements developed by the Tripartite policy organs with the financial support of the EU to facilitate safe cross border movement of goods and persons along the main corridors in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

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On 17 February 2022 the EU and Kenya agreed to advance negotiations on the conclusion of an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (iEPA). This iEPA is expected to improve trade and investment opportunities and help boost sustainable economic growth and job creation in Kenya. EPAs are free trade agreements initially conceived by the EU to cover groups of countries aggregated in specific regional areas with the purpose of streamlining negotiations with them. However, some of them have been concluded with individual African countries in view of their progressive extension to other countries pertaining to the same region. This is the case of Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon.

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