African Continental Free Trade Agreement

The objective of integrating the African economies is now continental. Hence, the entry into force of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement for a Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) marks a new and more ambitious stage in the process of integrating African economies[1]. Generally, regional integration projects and initiatives have a strong focus on the trade dimension. They aim at lowering and eliminating trade barriers by prohibiting participating members' restraints of trade in the internal market or by creating a common market. The trade dimension is important. However, its objectives would not be achieved without a competition policy dimension as a compliment. Hence, restrictions of competition on the regional level have both a trade and a competition component. To achieve the objective of creating regional markets free of trade barriers, it is crucial, in addition to the prohibiting restriction of trade, to police private and State initiated anti-competitive behaviors.

August 2, 2021

Edward F. Luke II and John Ohaga will present at an Online Webinar hosted by the ADR Section of the African Bar association: “African Continental Free Trade Agreement AFCFTA and ADR: Challenges and Expectations”

Date: 2 August 2021

Time: 2pm West Africa Time (9 a.m. Eastern),

Zoom Meeting ID: 8968649 4750;

July 26, 2021

Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa

Research Officer: Africa Trade, Political Economy & Trade Law

Salary from £36,647 to £44,140 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £47,456 pa inclusive of London allowance

This is a fixed-term appointment for two years

The News and Events published every week include conferences, major developments in the field of International Economic Law in Africa at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as well as relevant case law.

July 15, 2021

The African International Economic Law Network (AfIELN), the regional network of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), welcomes you to the 2021 virtual colloquium in collaboration with Afronomicslaw Blog.

The theme of this year’s event is "COVID-19 and International Economic Law: Africa's Experiences and Responses" and will be held from the 23rd - 24th July 2021.

The News and Events published every week include conferences, major developments in the field of International Economic Law in Africa at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as well as relevant case law.

In this essay I reflect on the question: What do we make of Africa’s States’ sovereignty whose economies have been reordered/structured around imperial relations of domination, whose larger reigns of social coexistence reeks of neoliberalism and whose citizens are always served the short end of the stick in the access or provision of social welfare services? Not to belabour the point, our increasingly datafied lives promising ‘enormous’ economic value require renewed governance, effort and thinking most pertinently from African States lest what we have as statehood is annihilated on the altar of technological imperialism.

June 14, 2021

Caribbean-African Trade Webinar Series

Single zoom registration entitles you to any and all events here.

Keynote Address

H.E Mr Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the AfCFTA

Facilitators

The News and Events published every week include conferences, major developments in the field of International Economic Law in Africa at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as well as relevant case law.

June 11, 2021

6th Annual Competition and Economic Regulation (ACER) Week

Online courses and call for papers

20 - 29 SEPTEMBER 2021