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East African Community

Relief as Tanzania agrees to approve EU trade deal
8-Feb-2022 Business Daily
The East African Community could finally sign the new Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union this month as a bloc after Tanzania changed its initial stance.
The AfCFTA Investment Protocol: preparations for the negotiations and expectations
29-Dec-2021 Tralac
The preparations for the negotiations of the Investment Protocol under the AfCFTA agreement (The Agreement) are already underway though still in the early stages.
Tanzania leads East Africa in drawing American investments
21-Nov-2021 The Citizen
Total foreign direct investments from the US to Tanzania was $1.5 billion in 2019. Tanzania is followed by Kenya - which received $353 million in the same year.
Inside the French push for stronger trade with Kenya
1-Nov-2021 The Star
France-Kenya ties have intensified during the tenures of presidents Kenyatta and Macron. Franck Riester, France Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, is leading a delegation to Kenya for a two-day visit.
Xiplomacy: Xi-proposed "eight major initiatives" facilitate China-Africa trade
1-Oct-2021 Xinhua Net
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in September 2018, Chinese President proposed that China would launch eight major initiatives in close collaboration with African countries.
EAC Secretary General urges AfCFTA Secretariat to adapt a private sector-led and people-centered approach to boost intra-African trade
28-Sep-2021 East African Community
The East African Community Secretary General urged the AfCFTA Secretariat to adapt an integration approach that is people-centred, market-driven and private sector-led, to ensure African citizens benefit from the continental agreement.
Kenya appeals to Uganda to sign EU trade pact
13-Sep-2021 The Independent
Kenya has again appealed to Uganda for a joint strategy on accessing the European market through the stalled EU/EAC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
Bye-bye regional implementation, hello variable geometry
18-Aug-2021 Euractiv
The EU-Kenya agreement to implement the Economic Partnership Agreement originally planned with the entire East African Community unties the Gordian knot between its supporters and opponents among African countries in the short term, but has long-term consequences beyond the divergence of tariffs towards the EU.
Bloc gives Kenya nod to enter into EU trade pact
6-Jul-2021 Business Daily
Kenya has the green light to pursue the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe after the regional business bloc recalled its previous position that restricted East African Community member states from endorsing the deal.
Kenya-UK economic partnership agreement betrays the East African Community
3-Jul-2021 Citizen Digital
While the Kenya-UK EPA consistently makes reference to the EAC and even purports that its is signed on behalf of Kenya and the EAC, it fails terribly when examined against the above requirements of mutual cooperation.
East Africa: Kenya moves to implement trade deal with EU as neighbours lag
25-Jun-2021 All Africa
A communique released after the meeting with EU chiefs indicated Kenya will be allowed to move forward with implementing the agreement, even after EAC member states hold reservations.
Kenya’s President arrives in Brussels for trade talks
23-Jun-2021 CGTN Africa
President Uhuru Kenyatta was on Monday afternoon received by King Philippe at the Royal Palace in Brussels at the start of his two-day official visit to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union.
Tanzanian to ratify free trade area agreement
31-May-2021 The Citizen
The government of Tanzania will ratify the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) between June and October this year.
Regional Economic Communities and the AfCFTA investment protocol
22-Apr-2021 Tralac
The legal regimes of the eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) recognised by the AfCFTA Agreement as building blocks of the African Continental Free Trade Area will not disappear when the AfCFTA is implemented.
SADC urges Member States to sign and ratify AfCFTA and TFTA
5-Apr-2021 SADC
The Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community has urged Member States that have not yet signed and ratified the AfCFTA and the TFTA to do so to allow for the implementation of the agreements.
European Union renews interest in stalled trade deal
12-Mar-2021 The Standard
The European Union (EU) is looking to revive the stalled multilateral trade talks between the 28-member economic bloc and the East African Community (EAC).
EAC secures unlimited access to Kenya-UK trade deal
2-Mar-2021 The East African
East African Community (EAC) member states have secured an open-ended time frame to access the trade agreement signed between Kenya and the United Kingdom.
UK-Kenya trade agreement may threaten regional integration
24-Feb-2021 The Maritime Executive
The United Kingdom (UK) parliament has warned that the British government’s new bilateral trade agreement with Kenya could undermine the East Africa Community (EAC) regional integration initiative.
Private sector firms join push for AfCFTA agenda
24-Feb-2021 The East African
Private sector lobbies in Africa’s six regional trading blocs have formed the African Business Council, a continental umbrella body to spearhead the business agenda for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
New deadline set for ratification of Tripartite Free Trade Area
24-Feb-2021 COMESA
Ministers from the tripartite group of regional economic communities in eastern and southern Africa have set June 2021 as the deadline to achieve the threshold of 14 ratifications required to enable the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) enter into force.