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Africa cannot afford to leave its development agenda to the whims of unpredictable factors that are beyond its control, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary,...

Sustaining growth by building on emerging export opportunities Rwanda’s economic growth has been slowing down since mid-2016 resulting in a 6 percent growth in 2016 and in 4.2 p...

Featured tweet, @UrugwiroVillage: President Kagame is now (Saturday) hosting AU Reforms meeting with President Conde, AU Chair Moussa Faki, as well as a few former African Heads of...

OR Tambo Building, Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Pretoria, South Africa, 19th – 20th August 2017 The 37th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of Sta...

The 37th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit ended in Tshwane on Sunday with a commitment to use the region’s natural resources to drive projects that will have ...

The present report summarises information on trends in international public and private capital flows to developing countries, options to address financial stress in developing cou...

Supply chains and commodity needs mean China doesn’t run massive trade surpluses with everyone China’s big trade surpluses hog all the headlines, but imbalances go both ways. ...

The African Regional Centre of the New Development Bank (NDB) was launched by South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday in Johannesburg. The African Regional Center will allo...

tralac’s weekly e-Newsletter: Are African trade arrangements rediscovering trade remedies? UNCTAD’s expert meeting on trade, services and development (18-20 July, Geneva): exp...

Today’s trade and integration event pointers: The political and socio-economic integration of the African continent: the role of the Pan-African Parliament (22-25 August, Ca...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) have formally launched the implementation of projects valued at 31.6 million Euros. The projects were...

The last 15 years have seen fast economic growth in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, there is a need to translate these factors into sustained poverty reduction through greate...

The United States is determined to deepen trade with sub-Sahara Africa following assurances that the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) deal is safe under the Trump administ...

Statement by Ambassador Albert M. Muchanga, African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry, at the opening ceremony of the 16th AGOA Forum Lomé, Togo, 8-10 August 2017 I...

The first of a series of papers on the UK’s future partnership with the EU A new paper setting out proposals for a future customs relationship with the EU has been unveiled...

The Sixty-Fourth Session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board will be held from 11 to 22 September 2017 in Geneva. A high-level dialogue will provide an opportunity to as...

Concluding today, in Kampala: ATAF, URA, AfDB high-level dialogue on the nexus between tax policy and tax administration Concept note (pdf): Much of the traditional tax regime for...

Between 30 July and 4 August 2017, delegates from the media; private sector; civil society and public sector from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States me...

It is time the southern African region takes charge of its own narrative and tells the story about its major achievements and challenges. According to the Southern African Develop...

Federal Register Notice This notice announces the initiation of the annual review of the eligibility of the sub-Saharan African countries to receive the benefits of the African Gr...