Africa
EFA Keynote Speaker at the 14th AU High-Level Private Sector Forum
EFA was a keynote speaker at the AU Private Sector Forum organised by the East Africa Community in Nairobi on 10 July. Ruhi Suttarwala, an award-winning ecommerce practitioner with extensive experience of…
Read MoreThe SA Competition Commission Designates Ecommerce as a Sector to be Controlled for Abuses of Buyer Power
The CCSA held 2 workshops on its new guidelines dated 22 May 2023 on buyer power abuses. EFSA attended the first of these workshops, on 14 June. Following the new…
Read MoreOther AfCFTA-Related News: SA Starts Workshops on the AfCFTA, the Ecobank Group Starts a Trade Hub, and the UBA Launches a Fund to Resource SMEs
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) is rolling out a series of awareness workshops on the AfCFTA Agreement throughout the country. The first was held in June…
Read MoreThe AfCFTA’s Draft Protocol on Women and Youth
The Women an Youth Protocol has not attracted such criticism and does look likely to get adopted by the next Ministers’ meeting. It is worth remembering, that the AU’s Maputo…
Read MoreNews from Africa
The AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol The hopes of the Secretariat to complete the negotiations on the Protocol by 23 July have not succeeded. The meeting of the negotiators has been…
Read MoreDemocratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has adopted a Digital Code
EFA understands that the new DRC ‘Digital Code’ is a far-reaching piece of legislation – all 175 pages of it – covering a broad spectrum of topics, from ecommerce and…
Read MoreOnline Gambling In Africa
Africa is an attractive proposition for the gambling industry with masses of untapped potential. Since 2020, online gambling across the continent has boomed, partly due to the COVID pandemic when…
Read MoreThe Digital Divide will be Reduced by More Smartphones
There were 503.14 million smartphone subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021, and that number is expected to reach 798m by 2027, based on the steady growth seen in earlier years.…
Read MoreThe SA Competition Commission
Last month we reported that the final recommendations on the Online Intermediation Platforms Market Inquiry (OIPMI ) had been postponed until 19 May. Now we are told that the Report may…
Read MoreThe Accelerate Africa Programme
Prosper Africa and Future Africa have announced the launch of the Accelerate Africa programme, which will provide intensive guidance, mentorship, and resources for early stage African founders, according to DISRUPT AFRICA.…
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