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Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) presented its 2017 Annual Report to the African Development Bank Group Committee on Operations and Development Effectiveness on 16 Ju...

The World Bank Group* with support from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has undertaken an in-depth study of investment perceptions and specific inve...

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has endorsed the International Trade Administration Commission’s recommendation to increase import duties for sugar. In a statement on Tue...

African freight volumes, passenger demand: IATA’s June analysis Freight trends: All regions except Africa reported a year-on-year increase in freight volumes in June 2018, but ...

The three-day third round of negotiations on the Mauritius-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) opened on Monday, 13 August 2018 at the Hilton Hotel in Flic en Flac. The FTA aims at fu...

Senior African policymakers on Monday resolved to adopt a common position aimed at propelling growth of ICT sector and embed it in the Continent’s transformation agenda. The pol...

Heads of Customs from COMESA Member States began a two-day meeting in Kenya to deliberate on the prepared reports on customs and trade facilitation matters. On the agenda of the C...

New from tralac tralacBlog: Trudi Hartzenberg and Gerhard Erasmus reflect on select trade-related matters currently on the SADC agenda tralacBlog: John Stuart asks, ...

Executive Summary The most up-to-date estimates by the Economic Commission for Africa indicate that during the period 2000-2015, net illicit financial flows between Africa and the...

The signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on March 21 in Kigali by 44 countries represented a milestone towards achieving the long-standing goal of creat...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Trade Liberalisation Scheme is supposed to be the operational tool for promoting intra-regional trade and boosting economic a...

Ahead of the 38th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government (17-18 August): Namibia takes over Chairpersonship of SADC Committee of Senior Officials. An SARDC preview of the sum...

South Africa signed the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) on 1 July 2018. What does this mean in practical terms? Wesgro recently hosted a seminar, in partner...

The 38th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government to be held in Windhoek, Namibia on 17-18 August 2018 will review progress towards regional integration and socio-economic...

ECA Executive Secretary Vera Songwe was a special guest at the 41st Symposium of the Association of African Central Banks (AACB), held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 5-9 Augus...

The 24th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Southern Africa will be hosted by the government of Mauritius under the theme: “Blue Economy, Inclusive In...

The African Union (AU), in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Import and Export Bank (Afreximbank), held a three-day consultation event to discuss...

This report provides a multifaceted diagnostic overview of Lesotho’s export competitiveness, including an assessment of medium-term impacts of potential trade policy changes, bas...

Towards an EAC Regional Intellectual Property Policy: 15 August is closing date for completion of a questionnaire to inform the policy Netpreneurs event: “Let’s make Afri...

A day-long event organized by UNCTAD and Alibaba gave young tech entrepreneurs in Africa a chance to share experiences and get inspired From Madagascar to Liberia, ...