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India mulling free trade pacts with African countries
Tue, 15 May 2012 09:24:00 -0700
New Delhi, May 15: India is exploring possibilities of entering into free trade pacts with regional groupings of African countries such as the 19-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said Tuesday.
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Malaya Business Insight
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:43:13 -0700
LONDON –– South Africa has become the latest country to sign the United Nations code of conduct governing anti-piracy operations in the western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden.
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EU's First EPA With African Countries Goes Into Effect
Mon, 14 May 2012 22:10:47 -0700
The interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and four Eastern and Southern African states, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Seychelles and Zimbabwe, went into effect on May 14, 2012.
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Botswana shoots up in global logistics
Tue, 22 May 2012 08:09:25 -0700
An authoritative World Bank assessment measuring the efficiency of the customs clearance process in 155 countries has ranked Botswana 68th, up a remarkable 66 places from the previous edition of the survey.
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MAURICE ILE DURABLE: MID Life Crisis
Mon, 21 May 2012 05:04:01 -0700
When the Prime Minister announced that he and Joël de Rosnay had conceived Maurice Ile Durable during a brief encounter in Paris, did he imagine that the gestation period would last 3 years 9 months? Finally, the long-awaited MID Strategy is about to be born… Or is it?
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Africa: Intra-African Trade or Global Integration?
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:07:24 -0700
[IPS] Geneva - Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
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Tanzania: Zanzibar Pushes to Join Island Alliance to Confront Climate Change
Wed, 16 May 2012 23:50:12 -0700
[AlertNet] Migombani - The East African archipelago of Zanzibar is attempting to win "environmental independence" from Tanzania by joining an organisation that promotes the sustainable development of islands in the Indian Ocean.
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