To efficiently carry out its mandate across the continent and beyond, TWN-Africa does not only work with partner organizations in Africa but is also the secretariat of two Pan-African networks: the Africa Trade Network (ATN) and the African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES). At the national level, TWN-Africa hosts the National Coalition on Mining (NCOM) and Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT).
Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area, provides a market of 1.3 billion people, likely to create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc but what exactly will Africans be trading in, asks *Sylvester Bagooro. What products would pass as African products (rules...
Contract work which has replaced full employment by mining companies has brought in its wake poor wages and working conditions over the years in Ghana. Refusal by the companies to address these longstanding issues came to a head couple...
For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, longer and more intense heatwaves, and other extreme and unpredictable weather patterns. But for women pastoralists livestock farmers in the semi-arid lands of Kenya climate change has...
Ghana won the bid to host the Secretariat of Africa’s Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) on the 7th of July 2019 in Niamey, Niger, during the 12th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State and Government. Great commendation...
Third World Network Africa (TWN-Africa), a Pan-African research and advocacy organization, has charged the government to focus on developing a strong negotiation position, in order to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). This comes a day...
