UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses an African Union summit in Addis Ababa via video in February 2022. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images This year’s celebration of Africa Day provides ...

Victor Oluwafemi, has called for urgent continental intervention to address rising xenophobic tensions in South Africa.

Abuja, Oct 30, GNA – Fifty years after the creation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the future of regional integration will be under the spotlight at the second gathering of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visa in Nigeria has launched its Africa Integration Index that measures the degree of economic integration within key trade corridors of sub-Saharan Africa, namely West Africa, East Africa and ...

The integration process currently revolves around an array of regional economic communities, including eight recognised as the building blocks of the African Union (AU). The East African Community ...

Africa’s long-articulated dream of integration is slowly edging from rhetoric toward reality—but not fast enough. At the heart of this ambition lies the African Continental Free Trade Area, a flagship ...

Only a more united Africa can avoid “diversified dependency,” whereby primary commodities still dominate exports even as trade shifts eastward toward China and India. Heads of state and government ...