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Business leaders, investors, innovative start-ups and young and women entrepreneurs from Africa and Europe met at the 6th EU-Africa Business Forum that took place in Abidjan, Côte...

Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo officials have committed to work together in addressing challenges hindering cross-border trade in the region...

President Paul Kagame yesterday congratulated his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta and the Kenyan people during Kenya’s presidential inauguration in Nairobi. Speaking in S...

Statement by Director-General Roberto Azevêdo at the Formal Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) Meeting and Informal Heads of Delegation Meeting, 28 November 2017 I would li...

WHO urges governments to take action An estimated 1 in 10 medical products circulating in low- and middle-income countries is either substandard or falsified, according to new res...

Featured infographics: @TheEIU_Africa team forecasts Ethiopia as sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing economy in 2018. East African/Franc Zone economies feature in region’...

The Manufacturing Circle launched its ‘Map to a Million New Jobs in a Decade’ on 24 November 2017, a plan containing realistic, constructive, and actionable steps to create an ...

“Most of the grazing areas are overstocked resulting in range degradation but with the use of the green economy, there is a potential to enhance sustainability in the agricultura...

Trade should support economic growth and be made socially and environmentally sustainable, with benefits spread across all segments of society. The ninth session of the Trade and ...

The World Customs Organization participated in the 8th Regional Joint Coordinating Committee (RJCC) meeting of “The Project on Capacity Development for International Trade Facili...

Recent food shortages in Kenya brought on by fluctuations in climate patterns resulted in the importation of tens of thousands of tonnes of maize from the international market this...

Featured tweet, Kenya School Of Revenue: Africa is far from integration when Kenya imports Zambian copper from China and Nigeria imports Kenyan coffee from London. We need to build...

The secret of the wealth of nations is clear: developed nations add value to everything they produce, while poor nations export raw materials. Africa must quit being at the bo...

Summary Report The Arab NGO Network for Development, l’Espace Associatif, Third World Network-Africa, and Regions Refocus, in collaboration with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, conven...

Conditions which host countries impose on multinational enterprises requiring them to meet specified goals with respect to their business activities are one way regional countries ...

Imports from South Africa grew by Sh11 billion in the first eight months of the year that saw Africa’s most industrialised economy overtake the United States in sales to Kenya. ...

Featured tweet, @UNCTADKituyi: Regional integration initiatives must be recast in light of sluggish global recovery, rising nativism, imperatives of sustainability and the dynamic...

Many positive changes such as rapid economic progress, the strengthening of institutions and rule of law have taken place on the African continent over the last two decades. A...

After “years of indifference” and one of the biggest waves of migration to ever hit Europe, Africa now tops the political agenda. That means a new strategy has to be found, acc...

The Directors-General from the fifteen Member States of ECOWAS began their meeting at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, on the 23rd of November 2017 to con...