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  • Africa: 'Market Information Gap Threatens U.S.$400 Billion Intra-Africa Trade'

    BOTSWANA, 2017/07/14 Access to data across African economies, which has been hindered by the fragmented nature of the respective markets, is currently threatening a $400 billion intra-Africa trade potential. Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) said the present transactions price at $170 billion remained their due to wide gap in market data, which presently needs to be closed to foster accelerated trade integration. Meanwhile, the size of intra-African trade could be doubled from the current level of about $170 billion per year to almost $400 billion by addressing the issue of availability of market data on the continent.
  • Russia And Nigeria Deepen Economic, Political Ties

    RUSSIA, 2017/07/09 Russia and Nigeria have taken steps to deepen their economic and political ties, next Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Geoffrey Onyeama, held diplomatic talks with his counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, during an official working visit to Moscow on May 29-31. Lavrov held talks with Onyeama and his delegation on May 30. The foreign ministers discussed issues pertaining to the steady development of bilateral ties in political, trade, economic and humanitarian areas. They concentrated on prospects of cooperation in the nuclear industry, hydrocarbon processing, infrastructure projects and exports of Russian industrial products to Nigeria.
  • Tripartite Free Trade Area plods along slowly in Africa

    BOTSWANA, 2017/06/24 Trade between African nations has long been outstripped by intra-regional trade in other parts of the world – for Africa as a whole, intra-regional trade is between 10% and 13% of total trade. This is far lower than in regions such as the EU, where about 60% of trade is between member states, and the Association of South-east Asian Nations, which has a rate of about 25%. Intra-regional trade in North America is put at about 40%. However, the ratification of the Tripartite Free Trade Sector(TFTA) – potentially later in 2017 – could help change that and push the development of additional intra-regional trade increase. A pan-regional free-trade zone, the TFTA stretches from Cairo to Cape Town and encompasses 26 African nations. Africa’s Tripartite Free Trade Area would reduce regional tariffs and create a pan-African single market, to aid development and cash in on a growing middle class in the continent. But with member countries often belonging to multiple economic areas, progress is both complex and slow, as Kit Gillet reports.  
  • Importers threaten to increase prices of goods if government implements tax to fund African Union

    BOTSWANA, 2017/06/15 Importers have threatened to increase the prices of goods if the government implements the 0.2% import tax to fund the AU. Mr Samson Awingobit Asaki, Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association, told the Ghana News Agency that the implementation of the tax would increase the cost of operation for importers. Mr Asaki added that at the same time as it happens like that, they would have no other choice than to transfer the cost onto the prices of goods for the consumers.
  • Benjamin Nentanyaho to Draw Israel's Attention Trade in West Africa

    ISRAEL, 2017/06/06 Long before the civil war, Israel had cemented its feet on Liberian soil. The Executive Mansion, until the demise of Samuel Doe, stood as a testament to Israeli handiwork as the seat of the Liberian presidency for decades. "The visit of PM Netanyahu will draw the attention in the Israeli business community to the opportunities in this region, and will bring along additional Israeli companies to have trade and investments in the region, Actually, the initial one is by presently here."
  • Prime Minister Netanyahu - Israel Coming Back to Africa

    ISRAEL, 2017/06/06 The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has cautioned Heads of States and Government at the ECOWAS 51st Ordinary Summit session held at the Farmington Hotel in Harbel that there is so much that need to be done for the betterment of the people of the ECOWAS region. High on the schedule at the conference was political, economic and security concerns within the region. Having slammed the rising wave of terrorism in Africa and the world, the Israeli PM said the terrorists worship death by murdering indiscriminately but added a collaborative effort can defeat them.
  • Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister set for three-state African visit

    CANADA, 2016/11/06 Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister Stéphane Dion has announced that he will make a seven-day visit to Africa for bilateral talks. Dion will visit Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia between 5 to 11 November. This will be his initial visit to Sub-Saharan Africa, and it will highlight the importance that Canada attaches to strengthening bilateral relations with African nations.
  • Nigeria Reaffirms Trade Commitment to India with $15B Oil Deal

    INDIA, 2016/11/04 Nigerian authorities have announced plans to sign a transaction worth $15 billion as an advance crude oil payment from the government of India.. Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s junior minister for Petroleum Resources, says the $15 billion in advance oil payments will provide some respite for Nigeria’s current cash flow problems. According to theCable, the transaction will see the Indian government make an upfront payment for the purchase of Nigerian crude, which would be repaid on the basis of firm term crude contracts over a couple of years.
  • Osinbajo Tasks Africa On Economic Development

    LIBERIA, 2016/08/25 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has task African nations on the need to work together particularly in developing their economies for the benefit of their people ahead of other forms of international cooperation. Osinbajo stated this while receiving the visiting Vice President of Liberia, Mr. Joseph Nyumah Boakai in his office at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. According to him in a statement by his spokesman Laolu Akande , “we have to help ourselves initial before others come, we should look for ways we can benefit each other.”
  • Africa: Nigeria Leads Africa, Israeli Negotiations On SMEs Growth

    ISRAEL, 2016/08/20 Nigeria is leading in a new trade and commerce cooperation between African nations and Israel, which will see small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) based in Africa benefit from the economic competencies of Israel. According to the facilitators of the partnership, the Africa Leadership Summit (ALS), a new platform, the Africa-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) was inaugurated recently in Abuja to oversee the planned economic relationship between the continent and Israel. The Convener of ALS, Mr. Olusegun Olanipekun told journalists at a leadership conference where AICC was formally unveiled that AICC would concentrate its efforts