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Beyond the AfCFTA vision: Building an African cotton, textiles and apparel regional value chain
Africa exports much of its raw cotton and imports much of the fabric its garment makers use. In May 2026, the AfCFTA Advisory Council launched a vision for a competitive, vertically integrated cotton, textiles and apparel regional value chain. Agisanang Magooa and Mohammed El Maziani Haddouchi outline the council’s sectoral working group approach as a replicable model for AfCFTA implementation and highlight implementation challenges.
30 September 2026
From transport to developmental corridors?
African corridors receive high-level political attention as vehicles for regional integration, industrialisation and development. Mohammed El Maziani Haddouchi and Bruce Byiers explore these ambitions and the practical challenges of realising them, and present the AfRI Practice Hub initiative.
23 September 2026
Policy, progress and the people behind the AfCFTA
03 June 2026
African corridors for investment, food security and climate action
This paper by the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) and ECDPM discusses the challenges and opportunities of connecting four key policy areas in relation to African food systems and an approach to addressing these to encourage investment on and around transboundary corridors.
26 May 2026
Notes from Kasumbalesa: Where 25km of trucks meet bikes on the Lobito corridor
Bruce Byiers went to the Kasumbalesa border between Zambia and the DRC to find out what trading at the crossroads of the Lobito and North-South corridors looks like. Drawing on field observations, he shows why real incentives and everyday practices at the border matter as much as grand corridors and AfCFTA ambitions.
17 February 2026
Leveraging AFCFTA for regional supply chain integration and competitiveness
By Audu Amos, Helen Yangu Shishi and Suleiman A. S. Aruwa for the International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering Management & Applied Science.
01 February 2026
Status of AfCFTA ratification
By Tralac.
20 January 2026
Unlocking Africa’s critical minerals for broad-based prosperity and global competitiveness
By Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Landry Signé and Vera Songwe for Brookings.
14 January 2026
Compendium of Africa’s strategic minerals 2026
By Africa Finance Corporation.
01 January 2026
Making Africa’s integration work for jobs, scale, and structural change
By Anrew Dabalen, Woubet Kassa, Pierre Nguimkeu, Foresight Africa 2026.
01 January 2026
Agency, extractivism, and development: the case of the Lobito Corridor
By Ricardo Reboredo for Third World Quarterly.
17 December 2025
Optimizing value chain enablers to unlock South Africa’s mineral potential
By AfDB.
25 November 2025
Africa at the core of critical minerals
By B20 South Africa and WEF.
01 November 2025
Leveraging digital technologies for MSMEs’ integration into regional value and supply chains - The cases of Ethiopia, Malawi, United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda:
By UNCTAD.
22 October 2025
Regionalizing African mineral value chains: Requirements for success
By Silas Olan’g, Thomas Scurfield, Anthony Black, Michael Smith for Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI).
01 October 2025
Africa’s Development Dynamics 2025: Infrastructure, growth and transformation
By the OECD and the African Union.
01 October 2025
Strength in numbers: Regional action for Africa’s positioning in critical minerals
By Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Landry Signé, and Vera Songwe for Brookings.
26 September 2025
Intra‑regional food trade in West Africa: New evidence, new perspectives
By the OECD.
08 September 2025
African Integration Report 2025 - Strengthening the implementation of regional frameworks to fully leverage continental achievements
By the African Union.
25 August 2025
Critical minerals for Africa’s inclusive growth and development
By AFDB.
18 August 2025