US-Africa trade deal turns 25 next year: Agoa’s winners, losers and what should come next

Posted on Mon 13 May 2024 in Trade • Tagged with Africa, USA, AGOA, sub-Saharan Africa, US, South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Togo, Burundi, CAR, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau

AGOA Africa Map

Bedassa Tadesse, University of Minnesota Duluth

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) is a landmark piece of trade legislation enacted by the United States in 2000. Its goal is to promote economic growth, development and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa by providing qualifying countries with duty-free access to the …


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Why history will judge Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza harshly

Posted on Mon 15 June 2020 in Africa • Tagged with Burundi, President Pierre Nkurunziza, Major General Evariste Ndayishimiye, Rwanda, politics

President Pierre Nkurunziza arrives to inaugurate Burundi’s Chinese-built state house on September 27, 2019. (Photo by ONESPHORE NibigIra/AFP via Getty Images)

David E Kiwuwa, University of Nottingham

Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi’s football-loving president and self-proclaimed pastor, has died at the age of 55. By all accounts this was …


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