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Implementation of the AfCFTA and its impact on security

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10:15 am December 2020

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11:15 am December 2020

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.

Speakers
Karim El Aynaoui
Executive President
Karim El Aynaoui is Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster. Karim El Aynaoui is an economist. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco where he held the position of Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. At the Central Bank of Morocco, he was in charge of the Research Department and equally a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Previously, he worked for eight years at the World Bank as an Economist for its regional units of the Middle East and North Africa and Africa. Karim El Aynaoui has published books and journal articles on macroeconomic issues in developing countries. Hi ...