{"id":213345,"date":"2025-11-12T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-sadc-secretariat-convenes-the-africa-trade-competitiveness-and-market-access-stakeholder-engagement-workshop-in-gaborone\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:47:08","slug":"africa-sadc-secretariat-convenes-the-africa-trade-competitiveness-and-market-access-stakeholder-engagement-workshop-in-gaborone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-sadc-secretariat-convenes-the-africa-trade-competitiveness-and-market-access-stakeholder-engagement-workshop-in-gaborone\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: SADC Secretariat Convenes the Africa Trade Competitiveness and Market Access Stakeholder Engagement Workshop in Gaborone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Southern African Development Community (SADC) in conjunction with the European Union (EU) will convene the Africa Trade Competitiveness and Market Access (ATCMA) Project Stakeholder Engagement Workshop in Gaborone, Botswana, from 12 to 13 November 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The \u20ac25 million EU-funded regional initiative is designed to enhance trade competitiveness, strengthen regional Quality Infrastructure, and boost intra-African and Africa-EU trade. The implementing partners are the United Nations Industrial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511120046.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern African Development Community (SADC) in conjunction with the European Union (EU) will convene the Africa Trade Competitiveness and Market Access (ATCMA) Project Stakeholder Engagement Workshop in Gaborone, Botswana, from 12 to 13 November 2025. The \u20ac25 million EU-funded regional initiative is designed to enhance trade competitiveness, strengthen regional Quality Infrastructure, and boost intra-African and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[6450,258,256,2462,10153,12780,7365,2858,4356,257,1412,11262,254,14251,5979,6278],"class_list":["post-213345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-competitiveness","tag-convenes","tag-engagement","tag-gaborone","tag-market","tag-news","tag-sadc","tag-secretariat","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakeholder","tag-trade","tag-workshop"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}