Events

Karim El Aynaoui, President of the Policy Center for the New South, will speak in a panel at the Post Tana Virtual Multi-Stakeholders Forum, taking place on December 17th under the theme of “National Sovereignty, Peace and Security: Challenging Demands for the AfCFTA”. Organized by Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), the general objective of the Post-Tana Forum is to provide a platform for candid deliberations about the AfCFTA and its implications on state sovereignty and continental security. In this context, the president will speak on the session on the implementation of the AfCFTA and its impact on security and specifically on potential illicit financial flaws, human and drug trafficking and the need for a more integrated approach.

Issues to be addressed: 

-Investment and trade negotiations, investment dispute procedures and dispute resolving mechanisms and institutions;

-Trade and investment standards and tariffs  verses dumping of substandard goods; 

-Information and data sharing, Intellectual Property and Cyber security in the implementation of AfCFTA;

-Private and foreign investors raising arguments against states in light of security;

-Potential illicit financial flaws, human and drug trafficking,

-Health, food and job security

-Rise in insurgencies and violent extremism as people move freely across borders

-Rise in Proliferation of small arms and light weapons.