The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Afreximbank have announced the development of the African Trade Exchange Platform (ATEX), a digital business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government (B2G) tool to help boost intra-African trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). A statement by the ECA on Friday (27 January) also noted that the ATEX platform […]
The European Union (EU) has provided a fresh credit facility of 32.7 million euros to the Democratic Republic of Congo to be used to provide assistance to people in the eastern region where several populations have been affected by fighting between the army and rebel groups. The loan will be channeled through humanitarian organizations to […]
Morocco granted residency permits to 14,000 out of 28,000 applicants as part of the second phase of a migrant regularization campaign that lasted from December 2016 to December 2017. The softening of the regularization requirements was taken upon Royal instruction with the aim to help the remaining 15,000 applicants to have access to employment, social […]
