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African Union: future role in BRICS+ and G20

... of the few positive trends in the global economy in recent years has been the greater prominence of regional integration in the Global South of which perhaps the most important has been the AU-led creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The African Union is in the process of accession to the core of the G20 grouping as a full-fledged member and is also a participant of the BRICS+ meetings that in turn are increasingly targeting regional groupings from the Global South. What will be the future ...

27.02.2023

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Fighting the Trend: How Africa is Uniting Amidst the Global Retreat from Multilateralism

... able to agree on during the first and second phases of negotiations. Africa is rapidly changing and the continent is approaching a point of change that could reaffirm the continent’s new geopolitical role. With Nigeria and Benin having signed the AfCFTA Agreement at the Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Niamey, Niger, the African movement of multilateralism is gaining force. And whilst the 2019 G20 Leaders’ Declaration underlined global willingness to “realize a free, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, predictable and stable ...

12.07.2019

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