Women have long driven cross border trade in Africa. They sustain entire communities by moving goods across borders, ensuring food security and stitching regional supply chains together in the [...]

The Bashir Adeniyi Centre for International Trade and Investment (BACITI) of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) has urged Nigeria to move beyond celebrating foreign direct investment (FDI) [...]

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat is stepping up efforts to bring Burundi deeper into the continent’s single market, as trade between African countries rose [...]

Namibian representatives to the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), Alpheus! Naruseb and Rodney Cloete, have expressed strong support for implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Read More

ECOWAS Commission Hosts Brown Bag Seminar on Geopolitics and the Blue Economy in West Africa 03 August 2026 - The ECOWAS Commission organized an interactive Brown Bag [...]

Ministers, parliamentarians, political party leaders and women’s networks from across West Africa today adopted the Abuja Regional Action Agenda, setting out concrete, time-bound steps to advance the [...]