Several African heads of state, who gathered in Djibouti in July 2018, inaugurated the Djibouti International Free Trade Zone (DIFTZ) described as the largest free zone on the continent. By 2028, it should become the main export point of products made in Africa to world markets.  Rwandan President Paul Kagame,...

Tunisia is a diversified economy. The country signed treaties and joined Comesa, tried to trade more with ECOWAS or ECAC, in vain. Today, as a member of the AfCFTA, it plans to quintuple its trade with the rest of the continent, until then to a ceiling of less than 2.5%...

The Tunisian Embassy in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, was inaugurated during a ceremony on Tuesday (October 8th) under the chairmanship of Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui and Kenya's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Ababu Namwamba. The inauguration of the embassy is part of the working visit of the Minister...

"We need to come up with innovative and practical strategies to promote industrialization and enhance trade in our region". President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states to focus on how to grow their economies rapidly through trade and improve the lives of...

« Je suis Kenyan », rappelle volontiers Vimal Shah. De fait, cet homme d’affaires, parmi les plus influents du pays, originaire d’Inde, est né au Kenya. « Et j’y mourrai ! » Avec Bidco, un groupe agro-industriel qui opère dans la région, Vimal entend développer un nouveau modèle d’agriculture intégré. Propos recueillis par Dounia Ben Mohamed...

Le président égyptien Abdel Fattah al-Sissi a saisi l’opportunité de l'ouverture, samedi 20 févriern2016, d'un sommet économique à Charm el-Cheikh, en Egypte, pour appeler à renforcer la place de l'Afrique dans l'économie mondiale. Le sommet "Africa 2016" est ouvert en présence de plus de 1.200 participants, dont les Présidents du...