South Africa released its pdf Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy (2.23 MB) for public comment on 20 May 2025. It is a polished and insightful document, reflecting the input of ...

Climate Investment Funds approve $2.6bn coal-exit plan for South Africa (Engineering News) A World Bank-linked climate fund has backed South African plans to cut its reliance on c ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download resources. The Heads and State of Government representing three regional economic communities (RECs) of the ...

Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati is Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Trade Forum. Before joining NTF in April 2014, she was a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of ...

According to Article 23 of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), entry into force occurs 30 days after the 22nd instrument of ratification is deposited with ...

Kyle Perel is currently pursuing a BS, double majoring in International Politics and Business Administration at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. He spent two months at tralac as a part ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In November 2023, following the conclusion of the annual AGOA Forum in South Africa, US ...

African economic integration has a long history. Both the African Union (AU) and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was Africa’s first post-independence continental ...

The combined, textile, apparel and footwear manufacturing industry remains Lesotho’s largest formal private sector employer – employing around 46 500 workers. Its current employment is below its early ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. As the drive to achieve net zero intensifies, the demand for critical minerals, essential ...

More than four years after the operational launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Ghana is participating in the Guided Trade Initiative (GTI), a pilot trading programme of the ...

The purpose of the evaluation is to review and assess the effectiveness of Sweden’s support to tralac, in terms of the standard evaluation criteria of OECD/DAC to determine its relevance, ...