NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo announced on Tuesday that the African Union, an economic community that will succeed the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), will be established later this month. Nigeria ratified the African Union’s constitutive act on April 26, bringing the number of OAU member states supporting the union up to the necessary two thirds. […]
The South African Federation of Trade Unions will lobby other police organisations following the loss of 82 000 Sapu members
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A new report says the EU-Horn of Africa migration policy puts African migrants at risk. DW spoke with the report’s co-author Lutz Oette.
At risk are other economies in the region and alternatives are being sought to allow trade.
Africa is a long way off a common monetary union as the continent continues to struggle to harmonise economic policies, South Africa’s central bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday. The Organisation of African Unity first mooted the idea of an African Central Bank and common currency in 1963.
Leaders from Africa’s main trading bloc met on Tuesday to discuss ways of enhancing its free trade zone, including steps to a customs union, at a two-day summit amid widespread regional tensions. Nine heads of state and government attended the summit and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was appointed vice-chairperson.
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Leaders from Africa’s main trading bloc on Wednesday opened a summit in Djibouti to mull ways of forming a unified customs system for its 21-member states. Six presidents and a prime minister will explore possibilities of putting in place the commons unions for their markets by 2008.
Agriculture ministers meeting in Brussels this week are facing charges of hypocrisy over their attempts to reform Europe’s highly subsidised cotton sector, after four of the world’s poorest countries warned that the current blueprint will fail to end dumping of EU exports in world markets.