Kenya and the European Union have signed a long-negotiated trade agreement to increase the flow of goods between the two markets, as Brussels pursues stronger economic ties with Africa.
Britain sees surge in migration despite Brexit - as skilled workers from Asia and Africa plug staff shortages
22/05/2023
Figures seen by Sky News show how firms are recruiting outside Europe to secure the skills they need, with India in particular providing staff to fill key vacancies.
It is increasingly evident that leaving the European Union — the world’s richest single market — was a monumental act of self-harm for the UK. African countries should take heed and cooperate to ensure the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Hungary will sign a trade and development deal between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific states after it was promised amendments it sought, the Central European country's foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday.
It’s the second year of business on Africa’s biggest trading platform – the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) - and it isn’t going to be business as usual in the continent’s single biggest trading bloc.
Trade and investment relations with Africa are increasingly important to the European Union’s strategic goals
Let’s renew the EU-Africa partnership now!
16/02/2022
The European Union – African Union Summit, which is taking place today, is an important milestone. European and African leaders must underline that we depend on each other. A prosperous African future is a prosperous European future, writes a coalition of MEPs.
What progress is Africa's free trade pact making in eliminating barriers to trade, deepening economic integration and driving forward the continent's development?
A CAMPAIGN group backing independence in Western Sahara is to take the UK Government to court over a post-Brexit trade agreement with Morocco.
The UK’s science community is urging the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to match funding to rhetoric, as arguments continue over where the budget for the UK’s association to the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme will come from.
Stephen Delahunty reports on a lawsuit being brought before for the courts to consider the legality of the UK-Morocco Association Agreement
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was finally signed on the 5th of December 2020 by 54 out of 55 African Union member states, heralding the start of a new era of improved trade governance as intra-continental trade is boosted and African trade arrangements across regional economic communities are harmonised.
More than 15,000 direct and indirect jobs are currently being affected negatively due to the failure of Ghana and UK to sign a post Brexit trade agreement that allows Ghanaian fruit producers’ tariff free access to the UK market as exists under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
£100,000 of tariffs slapped on Fairtrade bananas from Africa threatening farmers with ruin
23/01/2021
Liz Truss under pressure to explain why punishing levies being charged - despite announcement that UK-Ghana deal was struck.
The African Union, comprised of 55 Member States, has prioritized enhancing regional integration and development, and in 2016 decided to move towards a “borderless” Africa with seamless intracontinental migration.
African free trade bloc opens for business
05/01/2021
AFRICAN countries officially began trading under a new continent-wide free trade area last Friday.
UK tariffs on exports from Ghana were effected today due to Brexit. Golden Exotics tells me how the business is being affected.
04/01/2021
UK tariffs on exports from Ghana were effected today due to Brexit. While both countries try to work out a trade deal, George Kporye, Corporate affairs manager of banana exporting firm, Golden Exotics tells me how the business is being affected.
After months of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the African Continental Free Trade Area launches, but full implementation of the historic pact may take years.
Final bid to prevent huge new tariffs ruining African farmers amid allegations of UK ‘bullying’
05/12/2020
‘People in Ghana are very angry. They do not understand why Britain is acting like a bully’
Liz Truss urged to sign off deals quickly to spare African states high tariffs once Brexit transition period ends.
Ghana won’t sign new UK trade deal in 2020
21/10/2020
Lack of time, an election and regional trade tensions have made agreeing a deal tricky.
The government has been warned to abandon its proposed tariff-free quota for raw cane sugar imports because of its potential to undercut UK growers.