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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ruling NRM concluded the nominations on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, with those nominated promising to work towards ...

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 ...

The 2019 Index, which builds on the first edition published in 2016, provides up-to-date data on the status and progress of regional integration in Africa. It also helps to assess the level of ...

From the 1960s to the mid-1980s, Western-owned or Western-controlled financial institutions governed Africa’s banking system. In 1985, everything changed when Gervais Koffi Djondo co-founded the ...

For too long, African trade has operated with limited visibility across supply,Markets cannot trade what they cannot ...

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 ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday cautioned that Africa cannot achieve industrial scale, negotiate competitively, or withstand global economic shocks if it continues to operate as a tapestry of ...