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Since the 1980s, the manufacturing sector’s contribution to gross domestic product has been fluctuating, stagnating at 11 percent over the past five years to decline to 8.4 perce...

Diarise: 5th COMESA Research Forum (6-10 August, Nairobi) The 3rd Annual SADC Industrialisation Week began yesterday in Windhoek: an overview Featured infographic: @AUC_MoussaFak...

The message from the opening session of the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) annual regional public-private engagement forum, known as Industrialisation Week, was ...

The African Trade Policy Centre of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI) and the Pan African Strategic and ...

Peace, Security, Stability and the Fight Against Terrorism and Violent Extremism The Joint Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African ...

Profiled African REC, trade and development events starting today:   In Lomé: Joint ECOWAS, ECCAS Summit of Heads of State and Government In Kigali: African Tax Aut...

10th BRICS Summit Johannesburg Declaration BRICS in Africa: Collaboration for inclusive growth and shared prosperity in the 4th Industrial Revolution (DIRCO) Extracts from S...

Zimbabwe is still engaging Sadc on full market access as it has not yet fully implemented the Sadc Free Trade Area due to industrialisation, a government official has said. In a s...

Kenya has reiterated its commitment to continue working closely with other African countries to advance the realization of various programmes and initiatives of the African Union, ...

Leaders of the Brics bloc of emerging economies, meeting in the wake of tariff threats by US President Donald Trump, signed a declaration supporting an open and inclusive multilate...

BRICS Business Forum: selected highlights President Xi Jinping's address:  Keeping abreast of the trend of the times to achieve common development We are witnessing major c...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) plans to set up a team to oversee the implementation of the Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA). The DFTA is an online pl...

The development of internationally accredited metrology systems and infrastructure in Nigeria would go a long way in reducing Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and enhance the coun...

The global trade war has now escalated into a full-blown trade war that requires greater co-operation especially between Brics member nations, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davie...

tralac's new short course:  Applications for our new blended (combining online and residential learning) short course Trade Law and Policy for Africa’s Development have...

Globalisation is irreversible and the US will not succeed in changing the global world order by increasing import tariffs. This was the central message of a high level Brics d...

Kenya and Tanzania are among nine African countries set to benefit from an ambitious US-led initiative to invest in gas-powered power plants. The Gas Roadmap for sub-Saharan Afric...

At a meeting of the full WTO membership held yesterday, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo outlined the economic and systemic threats posed by the growing tensions in global trade a...

Report finds advanced economies remain leaders on trade logistics Advanced economies remain the global leaders in trade logistics, finds Connecting to Compete, a new Wor...

Tomorrow, in Sandton:  (i)  BRICS Business Forum; (ii)  The Africa Investment Forum on the theme of attracting private sector investment into Africa; (iii)  BRI...