Africa: African Integration Beyond Trade - When Africans Become Foreigners in Africa: [allAfrica] In my earlier piece in February, Beyond Preferences and Rhetoric: What Africa's 2025 Integration Moment Really Demanded I argued that Africa's long-term competitiveness would not be secured by waiting on external trade preferences, but by taking integration seriously as an economic project.… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSs9sJ #AfricanIntegration #TradePolicy #EconomicDevelopment #Africa2025 #IntegrationEconomy

We also just updated our map of active and suspended #AfricanUnion member countries for the first time in 2 years - and there was a lot to update.

There are now more suspended #AfricanUnion member countries than ever before - a total of six countries, or 11% of the organization's membership.

https://www.polgeonow.com/2023/09/african-union-au-suspended-member-states.html

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Map Update: Record Number of African Union Members Suspended (Sep. 2023)

A record six member countries are now suspended from the AU, after coups in Niger and Gabon.

Eritrea rejoins east Africa trade and security bloc IGAD after 16 years | Africanews

Information Minister Yemane Meskel said Eritrea resumed its activity in IGAD and took its seat at a summit organized by the seven-nation bloc in Djibouti on Monday

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