African leaders and France on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, adopted the Africa Forward Summit Declaration, outlining a renewed partnership focused on inclusive growth, innovation, peace, sustainable ...

South Africa is four months into the country’s electricity market transition – widely regarded as the most important economic reform since 1994 – but the process is already at a crossroads. The ...

Malawi is a land-locked country in Southern Africa with operational Simplified Trade Regimes (STRs) with four neighbouring countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. At the regional level, ...

Evidence from firm-level survey data on barriers to regional trade participation reveals that among women-led non-users of AfCFTA preferences, the main reason is simply not knowing that the Agreement ...

Just 11% of South African goods exports are women-driven. This share has been shrinking over the past 20 years as historically male-intensive sectors have grown while female-intensive sectors have ...

Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade is the legal instrument designed for advancing the participation of women and youth in intra-African trade and integration. The Protocol is not yet in force. This ...

SADC convenes a workshop for validation of Malawi Coordinated Border Management National Strategy (SADC) The Southern African Development Community (SADC) in collaboration with the European Union (EU) ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. Africa’s intra-continental exports weakened much more sharply than Africa’s exports to ...

South Africa’s tariff investigation system is sliding into crisis, with duty applications taking years rather than months, reviews of old duties barely happening, and private sector applicants ...

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