In a rapidly fracturing world, regional integration could be a source of resilience for the African continent. The African Union agreed in 2019 to establish the African Continental Free Trade Area ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Hippolyte FofackIt is almost impossible to imagine European Union officials receiving their salaries in a currency other than the euro, which has become an emblem of European identity and unity.

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 ...

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 ...

Loknath Mishra, the new CEO of UBA UK, has unveiled an expansion strategy focused on helping bridge Africa’s $100 billion ...

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 ...

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 ...

African countries are pursuing stronger regional integration to reap the benefits of larger markets and take advantage of economies of scale; and to tackle regional and global challenges such as ...

An organisation promoting regional economic integration among six Central African nations has suspended its activities amid a ...