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Africans roast SA for lack of openness
06 Feb 2014Frustration over Africa’s disparate tax, travel, investment and trading regimes boiled over yesterday as Chris Kirubi, a leading Kenyan businessman and one of the wealthiest peop...
read moreGreater competitiveness and regional integration critical for South Africa’s growth and opportunity
06 Feb 2014Greater export competitiveness and deeper regional integration could help propel South Africa towards faster-growing exports, allowing it to achieve higher, more inclusive, job-int...
read more‘SA needs more open dialogue on mines’
05 Feb 2014The government needs to focus more on working together with the mining sector in a way that will benefit all people in the country, Randgold Resources CEO Mark Bristow said on Tues...
read moreLagarde calls for a ‘new multilateralism for 21st century’
05 Feb 2014Responding to current and future economic trends requires a renewed commitment to international cooperation, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in delivering the 2014 Dim...
read moreSwaziland knocked by falling tax revenues
05 Feb 2014The flight of foreign direct investment out of Swaziland is apparent in falling tax revenues and is one sign of expected challenges to the economy this year.
Gross domestic produc...
read moreAfrica mineral resources ‘grossly under-explored’: Shabangu
04 Feb 2014Africa’s unmined metals and minerals lie waiting for investors, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Monday.
Speaking at the start of the African Mining Indaba in C...
read moreZuma: AU committed to tackling intra-Africa trade bottlenecks
04 Feb 2014President Jacob Zuma says the African heads of state have prioritised tackling infrastructure bottlenecks to enable intra-Africa investment to happen in a bid to boost the continen...
read moreFree trade area: Looking beyond the EAC
04 Feb 2014Experts believe that the creation of a bigger free trade zone beyond the East African Community through opening borders and addressing policies that impede trade is the gateway to ...
read moreEACJ jurisdiction ‘should cover investment litigation’
03 Feb 2014Regional lawyers have added their voice to the push to have the jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) extended in a bid to effectively arbitrate in litigation re...
read moreEAC states fail to strike trade deal with Europe
03 Feb 2014The just concluded negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between East Africa Community (EAC) member states and the European Union (EU) markets have once again ...
read moreRed tape, bribes strangle growth
03 Feb 2014When John Endres, CEO of Good Governance Africa, presents his views on the state of Africa to international audiences, he illustrates his talk with three maps.
The first covers th...
read moreGlobal value chains should benefit the people – Schlettwein
03 Feb 2014Investment in value addition activities that multinational companies make around the world should be extended to benefit developing countries Minister of Trade and Industry Calle S...
read moreSouth Africa, pharmaceutical industry face off on patent reform
31 Jan 2014South Africa’s efforts to reform its intellectual property (IP) regime in order to improve access to medicines has sparked a firestorm in recent weeks, with major pharmaceutical ...
read moreIt’s not just money that is needed – Using a bundled approach to increase productivity in the AU’s Year of Agriculture
31 Jan 2014The majority of people in Africa are engaged in the same profession: farming. Most of these individuals are small-holder farmers with fewer than 5 acres of land and little access t...
read moreObama presses for “fast track” trade powers, climate action
31 Jan 2014US President Barack Obama made a public call on Tuesday for Congress to pass “fast track” trade powers, as part of a larger effort to advance ongoing negotiations with the EU a...
read moreRisk perceptions hurting investments in Africa
31 Jan 2014At the 30th Session of NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee meeting ahead of the AU Summit the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa sai...
read moreDeal signed for Asia Africa Europe cable system
30 Jan 2014Seventeen telecommunications companies have signed a construction and maintenance agreement for the planned Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable system.
The cable will interconnect ...
read moreThe AU Summit and 10 years of agriculture
30 Jan 2014The 22nd African Union Summit began on Tuesday, 21 January 21 in Addis Ababa with the 27th ordinary session of the AU’s Permanent Representative’s Committee, chaired by Ethiopi...
read moreAfrican countries need united action on infrastructure development – AU chairperson
30 Jan 2014AU Commission Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwencha, on Tuesday called on African countries to unite in implementing the continent’s approved programme for infrastructure developme...
read moreSouth Africa was continent’s top FDI recipient in 2013
30 Jan 2014Foreign direct investment flows to Africa increased nearly 7 percent to an estimated $56 billion last year, nearly a fifth of which went to top recipient South Africa, a United Nat...
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