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Updates on African air traffic, cargo (IATA) African airlines’ traffic soared 9.9% in June. Capacity rose 7.1%, and load factor jumped 1.7 percentage points to 64.3%, although ...

Kenya’s exports to Tanzania have dropped by 34 per cent in the first five months of the year raising concerns over negative impacts of the long-running trade standoff. Exports t...

African states are expected to meet the October deadline to establish the continent’s largest trading bloc by the end of 2017, an official said on Sunday. Common Market for East...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), grew by 10.4% in t...

The impounding of over 400 Namibian, Tanzanian, South African and Congolese trucks by Zambian authorities from February to July 2017 has raised serious questions on two important m...

Kenya is an import economy – imports just about everything from garlic and oranges to construction material and heavy industrial machinery. The general view, which I largely acc...

Concluding today, in Gaborone: 2017 African Caucus Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF, and delegates from countries on the African continent met here in Gaborone on Thu...

Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and delegates from countries on the African continent met here in Gaborone on Thursday for the 201...

Transcript from an Africa Regional Media Hub press briefing with Mr. Peter Henry Barlerin, Deputy Assistant Secretary: Bureau of African Affairs, and Ms. Constance A. Hamilton...

Localisation in infrastructure development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is critical to industrialisation. This was said by the Chief Director of Afr...

Putting gender issues at the heart of trade policy is vital if development is to be inclusive, and training decision makers is a key way to achieve that goal. Building upon the su...

In Addis, today: Ms Vera Songwe assumes office as the new UNECA Executive Secretary From the tralac e-Newsletter: Call for papers for the Monitoring Regional Integration in S...

Issues related to trade and investment promotion were discussed at the 7th meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Trade in China. “The Trade Ministers established collaborative mecha...

The 2017 edition of the BFAP South African Baseline presents an outlook of agricultural production, consumption, prices and trade in South Africa for the period 2017 to 2026 and re...

The conventional Neoclassical literature views illicit financial flows (capital flight) to be a result of portfolio choice decisions by utility optimizing agents. These flows are s...

IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat last week jointly organized the first Regional Consultative Process (RCP) m...

Trade ministers from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) discussed trade facilitation, economic and technological cooperation, and the multilateral trade syst...

Dangote Cement achieves massive revenue increase across Nigeria, other African countries (Premium Times) Dangote Cement, Africa’s largest cement producer, has announced its unau...

Mobile broadband subscriptions are expected to reach 4.3 billion globally by the end of 2017, according to a new report released by the United Nations telecommunications agency. N...

As requested by members behind seven fisheries subsidies proposals, the chair of the WTO Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR), Ambassador Wayne McCook (Jamaica), circulated to WTO memb...