The lucrative trade in African primates threatens their survival: Barbary macaque and its trainer in Marrakesh square (Jemaa El Fnaa), Morocco Ilias Kouroudis/Shutterstock The trade in African primates is a hugely lucrative business. Every year it involves hundreds of thousands of animals and threatens the survival of wild populations. Marilyn Norconk explains why this is […]
The highs and lows of the opium trade in southern Africa | The Conversation
The highs and lows of the opium trade in southern Africa: Shutterstock The reach of European empires and of Indian Ocean trade networks drew southern Africa into the global politics of opium around the turn of the twentieth century. Between the late 1880s and early 1920s and there was a shift from economies of supply […]
UK-Africa trade and investment: who benefits? | The Conversation
UK-Africa trade and investment: who benefits?: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (centre) with a host of African leaders at the UK Africa Investment Summit in London. EPA-EFE/Hollie Adams There has been much hype about a major Africa investment summit being hosted by the UK. Attended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and an array of royals, […]
Making sense of South Africa’s new copyright bill and US trade threats | The Conversation
Making sense of South Africa’s new copyright bill and US trade threats: Shutterstock The Office of the US Trade Representative has announced a review of South Africa’s eligibility for Generalised System of Preferences benefits. The office took the step after it was petitioned by the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a private sector coalition representing large […]
Africa should focus on industrialisation. Free trade will follow | The Conversation
Africa should focus on industrialisation. Free trade will follow: Workers in an assembly line Shutterstock The African Continental Free Trade Area is a continental agreement which came into force in May 2019. It covers trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property rights and competition policy. Of the 55 African Union member states, only Eritrea […]
SA News: SAA on collision course with trade unions in a fight for survival
SAA on collision course with trade unions in a fight for survival: Trade unions were notified on Tuesday that retrenchments are being contemplated. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) say … Source: “South Africa” – BingNews
Exotic pet trade highlighted at Crocworld Conservation Centre’s November talks
Exotic pet trade highlighted at Crocworld Conservation Centre’s November talks: Crocworld Conservation Centre on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast welcomes two dynamic speakers to the programme for the November edition of the educational monthly talks. On Saturday, 9 November, Ndivhuwo Shivambu (PMB) and Tinyiko Cavin Shivambu (PMB), PhD candidates in Zoology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal […]
The African free trade zone can’t ignore continent’s security issues | The Conversation
The African free trade zone can’t ignore continent’s security issues: Millions of people have been displaced from countries like Mali. Can a free trade zone create more security? NICOLAS REMENE/EPA-EFE The new African free trade zone came into effect at the end of May 2019. All of the African Union’s (AU) member states are now […]
Africa’s Mukula trees score a victory as trade is put under closer scrutiny | The Conversation
Africa’s Mukula trees score a victory as trade is put under closer scrutiny: Rosewood is coveted for its colour Winai Tepsuttinun/Shutterstock CITES – the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora – has decided to include Mukula trees, one of many rosewood species, in its Annex II listing. Species covered […]
It’s time to break the deadlock over Africa’s ivory trade: here’s how | The Conversation
It’s time to break the deadlock over Africa’s ivory trade: here’s how: African elephant PhotocechCZ/Shutterstock Fierce debates over ivory have dominated the global conference for the international trade in species for 30 years, since the first international ivory ban was instituted in 1989. This is no different at the 18th Conference of the Parties to […]
