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The ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government has commended the Liberian political parties for their support towards ensuring a violence free presidential election in the c...

G20 Africa Part­ner­ship – Investing in a Common Future Con­fer­ence On 12-13 June 2017, the German G20 Presidency gathered together Heads of States and Min...

US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says America’s relationship with Africa “has to continue its transition from being ‘AID-based’ to ‘TRADE-based’”. “To that end, h...

An innovative trade initiative which is expanding opportunities for business, employment and prosperity in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries will be extended to February 201...

CFTA negotiations: The 3rd Meeting of the African Ministers of Trade began today in Niamey, Niger. It concludes tomorrow. Featured visualisation: Market potential of West African ...

Energy – its availability, reliability, affordability and sustainability – is critical for Africa’s transformation. Modern energy services enable economic growth and have a c...

The amount of money migrants send to their families in developing countries has risen by 51 per cent over the past decade – far greater than the 28 per cent increase in...

India has now moved away from its hands-off approach towards projects under lines of credit to foreign countries, the outcome of which is yet to be seen. In 2012, India ...

Underway, in Berlin: inaugural ITC/ATI Tax and Development conference, hosted by Germany as part of its G20 Presidency Related, recent African conference outcomes on illicit finan...

The World Bank has launched new reports confirming that Zambia needs a lot more jobs and created at a much faster pace. They also need to be of jobs with higher wages for the major...

The idea of Asia Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) emerged in the joint declaration issued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in November 2016. The AAGC will...

A strategic planning and capacity development retreat on the role of African Regional Economic Communities (RECs)s in the Implementation of the First Ten Year Action Plan of the Af...

Two-hundred and fifty delegates from 42 countries attended an international conference on the theme “Tackling Illicit Financial Flows: An African approach to a global phenomenon...

A selection of updates on the G20 Africa Partnership: Investing in a Common Future Merkel calls for greater investment in Africa ahead of G20 summit. Underscoring the pressure Afr...

The fifth review of the trade policies and practices of Nigeria takes place on 13 and 15 June 2017. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the ...

Africa is a continent of vast opportunities. Despite the high volatility of commodity prices as well as geo-political and geo-economic uncertainties, the continent’s average real...

How did the setting up of export processing zones (EPZs) in COMESA countries affect women? How did tariff changes affect female employment in the manufacturing sector? The Common ...

Featured tweet, @AfricaSweMFA: 26 countries represented at the Nordic-African FM meeting in Nigeria [this weekend]. Great discussions on peace and security, trade and gender equali...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts African leaders Monday for a G20 conference aimed at fighting the grinding poverty driving the mass migrant influx to Europe. The idea is to ...

Long seen as artificial barriers inherited from decolonisation, West African borders now lie at the heart of policies designed to encourage regional trade and combat political inst...