The Centre for Regional Integration in Africa (CRIA) has urged African countries to shift from the traditional approach to integration, which does not appear to fit with the African situation, to development integration agenda. Prof S.K.B. Asante, the Executive Director, CRIA said development integration encompassed cooperation among countries in a broader range of areas than just trade and trade facilitation …

Africa lacks sufficient regional integration institutions to train responsible personnel and churn out such a cadre, without which the pace of integration would continue to be slow, Mrs Mary Chinery-Hesse, Chancellor, University of Ghana, has said. She said the African Continent had not paid sufficient attention to the importance of building the institutional and human capital fit for purpose. She …