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Huge potential for big post COVID-19 trade between Africa and Europe

Huge potential for big post COVID-19 trade between Africa and Europe

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE COVID 19 global pandemic may result in 2020 seeing the worst year of growth for the global economy in 40 years, but there remains “huge untapped potential” in the trade relationship between Southern Africa and Europe. This was the overwhelmingly positive message from an upbeat seventh edition of the Southern Africa Europe CEO Dialogue, held this year in a hybrid physical and digital format in Johannesburg. The high-level networking and debate platform, organised by one of the world’s leading think tanks The European House Ambrosetti and the Gauteng Provincial Government, again brought together key decision makers…
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G20 says it will strive for fair global access to COVID-19 vaccine

G20 says it will strive for fair global access to COVID-19 vaccine

DAVIDE BARBUSCIA, MARWA RASHAD AND RAYA JALABI LEADERS of the 20 biggest economies have vowed to spare no effort to supply COVID-19 drugs, tests and vaccines affordably and fairly to "all people", reflecting worries that the pandemic could deepen divisions between the world's rich and poor. The pandemic and prospects of an uneven and uncertain economic recovery were at the centre of a two-day online summit under the chairmanship of Saudi Arabia, which will hand the G20 presidency to Italy next month. "The COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented impact in terms of lives lost, livelihoods and economies affected, is an…
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