Capital market stakeholders have called for urgent reforms to integrate African markets and accelerate economic growth across the continent. The ...

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 ...

It is a cliché that Africa's struggles to feed its people, educate its children, tend to its sick, and create economic opportunities for its highly resourceful population is a blight on the ...

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 ...

Eminent experts from across the country and beyond, the academia, as well as leading public and private sector players have called for deliberate and coordinated efforts, stronger policy discipline, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...