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March 2 2011 - Business Report - By Samantha Enslin-PayneFurniture group Steinhoff International is looking to expand its retail business in Africa, as it intends now to consolidate its European operations.Chief executive Markus Jooste said yesterday that the group was looking at prospects in Africa, specifically among the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, where there were

WINDHOEK, Feb 22, 2011, 2011 (IPS/GIN)A schism about the division of revenues in the world's oldest customs union threatens to derail the process of regional economic integration in Southern Africa.The internal problems plaguing the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) for the past year have entered a new phase. A concept study looking into revenue sharing from the SACU pool proposes a radical

23 February 2011South Africa is pushing ahead to secure a free trade agreement between the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for East African States (Comesa).Briefing journalists in Cape Town on Tuesday, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said that a summit between the SADC, Comesa and the EAC would be hosted within weeks.He

A new generation of public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help close Africa’s large and growing ‘infrastructure gap’ estimated at US$31 billion a year. This was the consensus emerging from a meeting “Facilitating Acceleration of Infrastructure Development,” where a new, virtual network of practitioners was launched to strengthen government capacity for conceptualizing and implementing these

Il était prévu que les négociations d'un accord de partenariat économique (APE) entre l'Union européenne (UE), les membres de l'Union douanière d'Afrique australe (SACU), le Mozambique et l'Angola reprendraient le mois prochain, la nouvelle date butoir de leur conclusion étant prévue pour le mois de juillet, selon une déclaration du département du commerce et de l'industrie. L'accord, qui n'a pas

Edited by: Mariaan Webb - Creamer Media ReporterThe Fund for Research into Industrial Development, Growth and Equity (Fridge) has called for consultants to conduct a study into the potential of the establishment of the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community

Brigitte Weidlich, The Namibian, 30 July 2010The three-year tussle between some Southern African countries, including Namibia, and the European Union (EU) to finalise trade negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) will be concluded by the end of this year."The EU endorsed the request by countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to conclude a full EPA