The ECA Office for North Africa held on 9-12 September 2025 a capacity building workshop under the theme: “Unlocking AfCFTA Opportunities: Capacity building for youth and female-led SMEs in Libya and ...

South Africa’s fishing industry has secured access to export fish and fish products from listed fisheries to the United States beyond January 2026. This comes after South Africa’s fish products were ...

How US tariffs are affecting South Africa’s trade dynamics (IOL) South Africa’s trade with the United States had already fallen even before the 30% US tariffs came into effect ...

South Africa's sugar farmers face 'double whammy' from Trump tariffs, cheap imports (Engineering News) South Africa's sugar industry, valued at around R25-billion, directly and in ...

Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati is Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Trade Forum. Before joining NTF in April 2014, she was a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of ...

Dr. Ify Ogo is a legal economist and trade specialist. Her experience includes working as the UNDP Regional Coordination Specialist on the AfCFTA, as well as Trade Policy Expert at the African Trade ...

George Chikondi Lwanda is a regional programme and policy advisor with the UNDP Africa Centre, a 2018 Asia Global Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the Hong Kong University, and an alum of the Mo ...

Beatrice Chaytor is an international trade lawyer, called to the Bar in England and Wales as well as Sierra Leone, with over 30 years’ experience in providing advice and support to NGO’s, governments ...

Ms Viola Sawere has over 15 years’ experience in international trade policy, private sector development and multi-stakeholder dialogue. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In November 2023, following the conclusion of the annual AGOA Forum in South Africa, US ...

One of the important protocols forming part of the set of agreements within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is the Digital Trade Protocol (‘the Protocol’). This protocol has the very ...

Over the past 10 years, intra-Africa trade has grown from US$ 98 billion in 2013 to US$ 102 billion in 2022. Despite this performance, intra-Africa trade as a share of Africa’s global trade has ...