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PAN AFRICAN VISIONS MARKETING AFRICAN SUCCESS STORIES & MORE MAG 0619 Vol 2, June 2019 www.panafricanvisions.com The Dream Gets Closer To Reality -What The AfCFTA Could Mean For Africa UNCTAD’s Joy Kategekwa On The Game Changing Prospects of The AfCFTA Cote d’Ivoire’s Second Miracle & AGOA Forum With Ambassador Haidara Mamadou What Can the D.R. Congo Hero to Villain? President A Legacy Dismantled: The bring to the EAC Block? Weah and Realities of Root Cause of Khama-Masisi Governance in Liberia Rift in Botswana PAN-AFRICAN PRO-AFRICAN www.centurionlg.com Contents PAN AFRICAN VISIONs CONTENTS A Harbinger of Hope In The AFCFTA __________________ 2 A Legacy Dismantled: The Root Cause of Khama-Masisi Rift _ 30 Dreams of a United Africa See Big Boost Continent Kicks Off Rwanda France Honeymoon: Franco-Rwandan Cultural Centre To World's Largest Trading Bloc________________________ 3 Be Reopened In Kigali ____________________________ 32 The African Trade Deal Could Boost Economies Despite Challeng- Six million people to face food insecurity in South Sudan – UN es __________________________________________ 4 Agencies warn _________________________________ 33 The AFCFTA Will Have A Game Changing Impact The Whole Con- South Sudan appeals for $12 M to boost Ebola dispersal, prepared- tinent-Dr. Joy Kategekwa __________________________ 7 ness ________________________________________ 34 Head, UNCTAD Regional Office for Africa ______________ 7 Nigerians expectations from Buhari's "next level" themed second term. _______________________________________ 36 In AGOA Forum Cote d'Ivoire Seeks To Cement Role As Regional Economic Hub _________________________________ 13 Role of Women in Conflict Management and Peace Building in Afri- ca. __________________________________________ 37 "To integrate Africa, bring down the walls," Adesina urges at 2019 African Development Bank Annual Meetings Open in Malabo _ 16 Swedish Journalist recounts her horrible experience in the Rwan- dan Genocide __________________________________ 39 MAKING AFRICA TRADE EASY (MATE) ______________ 17 Zoom On The Shocking Figures And Tragic Consequences Of Illicit "The African Diaspora linking U.S. and African businesses" __ 17 Finance On Africa _______________________________ 40 HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE _________________________ 17 Federalism, local government autonomy and the crisis of identity in DR Congo seeks EAC membership: What could it bring in the Nigeria ______________________________________ 44 bloc? ________________________________________ 18 Liberia economic protest; First Litmus test for President George Despite challenges, Africa's debt is still under control says African Weah _______________________________________ 46 Development Bank ______________________________ 19 Africa and United Nations Peace Keeping Crisis___________ 47 The problem of Nigeria is not borrowing – Amaechi ________ 22 Austerity Measures in Zimbabwe Should Be a Major Concern for Malawi: Opposition leaders keep protesting election results __ 25 All _________________________________________ 49 Why Rwanda-Uganda row would make ordinary citizens suffer Of Resource Looting, Power, and Corruption in the SADC In Min- longer _______________________________________ 26 ing Sector _____________________________________ 52 -Rwandan-Ugandan relations will likely remain poor for the dura- What image best befits the Church in Kenya? ____________ 54 tion of 2019 ___________________________________ 26 WorldRemit launches new product for business payments to Nige- Q & A with Rear Admiral Seth Amoama, Chief of Naval Staff, Gha- ria __________________________________________ 56 na Navy ______________________________________ 29 Managing Editor Adama Makasuba, Graphic Designer Ajong Mbapndah L Bah Uzman Unis, Atemnkeng Jerry M, Pan African Visions Mohammed M Mupenda, (Young Jerry) Contributors EC designs, Abudhabi - UAE 7614 Green Willow Court, Hyattsville, MD Pierre Afadhali Wallace Mawire Teslim Olawore +971 52 863 7744 20785 Deng Machol Nevson Mpofu [email protected] Tel: 2404292177, Papisdaff Abdullah Boris Esono Nwenfor Ajayi Olyinka Amos Fofung email: [email protected], Prince Kuripati Jean d’Amour Mugabo [email protected] Hategeka Moses _______ Asong Zelifac Advertising Samuel Ouma Email: Primus Tazanu marketing@ Alexandre Nhampossa, panafricanvisions. Ishmael Sallieu com Koroma, PAV - APR. 2019 - MAG 0419 Vol 3 1 PAN AFRICAN VISIONs Inside Africa A Harbinger of Hope In The AFCFTA By Ajong Mbapndah L nveiled in Kigali, complex, and unbelievably it is a serious problem. Rwanda, in March cumbersome, the alacrity When African leaders are U2018, the African with which the AFCFTA was quick to send condolence Continental Free Trade ratified gives a reason to hope. messages when incidents Agreement went into force Between ratification and take place in Europe, but no on 30 May 2019 following successful implementation, one says thing when tragedy ratification by the requisite there remains a very wide strikes Zimbabwe, Malawi number of countries. Signed gulf. or Mozambique, there is a by 52 of the 55 African As of now, Nigeria the problem. nations, the AFCFTA has regional power in Africa, the It is in the best interest been the subject of rave most populous country in of Africa to be proactive reviews. Experts say the the continent and the biggest in seeking solutions to its agreement represents the economy is yet to adhere problems. When this is biggest free trade area in the to the agreement. It is yet done, the kind of outside world since the advent of the another clear abdication of interference that does not WTO in 1995. leadership from President always put the interest of It is expected that the Buhari’s country. Should Africa first is avoided. If in AFCTA will cover more than Nigeria not have been the the 21st century, the world 1.2 billion people with a one taking the lead in the football governing body combined GDP of some $3 negotiations? Should that Ajong Mbapndah L, Managing Editor FIFA can still take over trillion. Key components country not have been the management of the of the agreement include a amongst the first to ratify it made and even distinguished will of the existing leaders Confederation of African single continental market and set the example for the personalities like business to see reforms that will Football because of poor for goods and services, free rest of Africa? How much mogul Aliko Dangote and move the continent forward. leadership and management, movement of capital, and more time is needed by them former Nigerian Minister An agreement that has, there is something profoundly a commitment by member to review the agreement of Economy Ngozi Okonjo from commencement of wrong somewhere . countries to reduce about before putting pen to paper? Iweala have had challenges negotiations (February 2016) In the AfCFTA, there 90% of tariffs on goods they In case Nigeria does not using their own AU Passports to adoption (March 2018) – is hope that Africa is produce. come on board, Africa has in some parts of the continent. taken a little over two years approaching a new dawn, The agreement creates a to move on. No one leader If Dangote with all the wealth – is demonstration of strong and this issue of the magazine single continental market or country should hold the and investments across political will says Dr. Joy has a fairly strong focus on for goods and services as continent hostage. A look at Africa has difficulties moving Kategekwa, of the UNCTAD trade. There are interviews well as a customs union with the trends in the last decade freely within the continent, Regional Office for Africa. with Dr. Joy Kategekwa free movement of capital, or so will indicate that more then there is a very serious Hopefully this political will is Head, UNCTAD Regional and business travelers. often than not, the much- problem, and this must be sustained all the way. Office for Africa on the Countries joining AFCFTA needed leadership has not speedily addressed. meaning and potentials of the must commit to removing come from Nigeria or South At the time the AFCFTA is As the continent basks AfCFTA , and Cote d’Ivoire’s tariffs on at least 90% of the Africa which are supposed to going into force, two of the in the glow of the AFCFTA, Ambassador to Washington, goods they produce. The be the continental leaders but top signatories Rwanda and we must not loose site of Haidara Mamadou on the Economic Commission on from smaller countries. Uganda have been engaged the enormous challenges upcoming AGOA Forum, and Africa estimates that with the Beyond lofty ideas and in a battle of their own with that the continent still faces. the investment climate in his AFCFTA, intra Africa trade treaties, a bigger problem its borders currently shut. When the government of country. We explore what the could see a surge of some has been the absence of the In the Central African sub President George Weah in D.R. Congo could bring to the 52.3% by 2022 or so. political will to implement region, earlier accords signed Liberia orchestrates the East African Community, the Indeed, going by the existing accords. A few years for the free circulation of shutdown of internet during travails of President George audacious projections, the back, still in Rwanda, the goods, services and people anti government protests, Weah in Liberia, the vicious AFCFTA has every potential African Union passport was have remained fallow. There we, have an issue. When feud in Botswana between to be the game changer that launched and the first