Africa’s trade blocs were designed to unite the continent: four reasons they haven’t delivered

Africa’s leaders must urgently rationalise the mission of regional integration and ensure that common political values ...
Opinion
The EastAfricanOpinion

Why Africa rallies for access, hesitates at integration: Agoa-AfCFTA politics

Africa moves fast to protect access to external markets, but its own continental free trade dreams stall as domestic politics get in the way.
MyJoyOnline

Africa’s integration is about people and access to markets, not just policies – BoG Deputy Governor

Matilda Asante Asiedu, has emphasised that Africa’s integration is not merely a policy framework but a process that directly ...
TheCable

Challenges of regional organisations and the future of integration in Africa

Regional organization and integration in Africa are rooted in Pan-Africanism and the post-independence quest for unity, collective ...
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West African regional integration under the spotlight

Abuja, Oct 30, GNA – Fifty years after the creation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the future of regional integration will be under the spotlight at the second gathering of ...
AllAfrica on MSN

AU Executive Council Opens 48th Ordinary Session With Strong Call for Unity, Sustainable Water Management and Accelerated Continental Integration

The Forty-Eighth (48th) Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) kicked off Wednesday at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, with a strong call for ...
Nairametrics

African Central Bank grants Nigeria permanent board seat

Nigeria has secured a permanent seat on the Board of the African Central Bank (ACB), marking a major milestone in ...
The Africa Report

For a successful integration, Africa needs an operating system update

Ask any traveller about their experience moving across parts of Africa and you will likely hear about familiar challenges: high costs, indirect routes and unpredictable schedules that can make even ...
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Piecing the Puzzle of African Integration: The Successes and Exponential Potential

Achieving African integration is not an end in itself. The purpose must be to offer the African citizenry prosperity and security. The objective of both regional and continental integration must ...
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Make East African integration work for the ordinary citizen

It is noteworthy to see the seed sowed by our liberators in 1967 as East African Community (EAC) grow to a vivacious economic bloc. However, there is a missing link between the political elite and the ...
Euromoney

Africa’s integration moment: Can payments, markets and currencies converge?

For more than a decade, the idea of a truly integrated African market has hovered somewhere between political aspiration and economic inevitability. With the African Continental Free Trade Area ...
Reuters

Africa must speed up integration to face crisis: AU

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - African states must speed up economic integration to deal with challenges posed by the global economic crisis and mitigate future external shocks, the African Union commissioner ...