Assessment Reports
E-Commerce Sub-Sector Assessment Report for Kenya (Mwencha (2016) 2016 E-Commerce Sub-Sector Assessment Report for Kenya)
ICC Africa Statement (20180412 ICC Africa Statement_v7)
Ecommerce News In Africa
Apple sent waves across the fintech landscape last month with the launch of its new savings account, which saw deposits reach nearly $1bn over the first 4 days. Savings are…
Interesting Data Privacy Case – Transfers of Personal Data, the EU versus the US. Meta has been fined a record €1.2bn by the Irish Data Protection Commission for not complying…
Recently Takealot announced that it would be using sustainable packaging. In this decision the South African ecommerce company was following other market leaders, such as Amazon. A lot is being…
Trade in digitally delivered services boomed during COVID, with global exports growing by 15% on average in 2020-21. The newly released WTO-OECD Balanced Trade in Services report reveals digitally delivered…
EFA has held a meeting with our European colleagues at the Ecommerce Europe to discuss the new EU proposals on customs. The draft circulated by the European Commission proposes that…
Tralac (the Trade and Law Research body) held its annual conference in Rwanda in mid-May. The AfCFTA Secretary-General, HE Wamkele Mene (the S-G), was the opening speaker alongside the Rwandan…
Travelling around Africa and in need of some insight into the cost of living in your country(ies) of destination? Numbeo, a data and research platform, determines the overall cost of…
This Newsletter has reported on this Online Intermediation Platforms Market Inquiry (OIPMI) since it was launched in 2020. On 18 April the Proposed Regulations and Guidelines were supposed to have been published,…
Prof. Adheesh Budree, a member of the EFSA Board sits on the GS1 Southern Africa Council. The primary objective of GS1, which is run by the Consumer Goods Council of…
OpenAI’s products, such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, might be the poster boys, but similar chatbots have been quietly springing up in Africa. One notable trend among them is how they…