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The Conference Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has been following the debate on Section 1502 of the Dodd Frank Act with greatest atten...

The second review of the trade policies and practices of Sierra Leone takes place on 14 and 16 February 2017. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a repo...

Applications close on 6 March for tralac’s online course ‘Trade in the 21st Century: legal and policy considerations for Africa’.   Profiled appointment: Paul Noumba Um...

The UNCTAD Investment Policy Review (IPR) of Botswana, published in 2003, analysed the legal and institutional framework for investment. It made concrete policy recommendations to...

In Africa today, more than 500 million people live without electricity.  In fact, fewer than one in five Africans was connected to the power grid in 2012, and despite a modest...

Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, has challenged African leaders to take advantage advancements in technology to better the lives of their citizens. According to Dr Bawumi...

In the years since the global financial crisis, Africa has witnessed a rapid expansion of cross-border banking, led by banking groups based in Africa that are spurring financial an...

The East African Community has formed a 25-member taskforce to revise the region’s Common External Tariff (CET) and fine-tune the existing rules of origin to boost intra-region...

Soaring cost of basic staples is an extra challenge for pastoralists as livestock prices fall Drought throughout East Africa has sharply curbed harvests and pushed the prices of c...

Failure to act now will compromise future food production, sabotage 2030 development agenda Failure to act now to make our food systems more resilient to climate change will “se...

Underway in Walvis Bay: African Corridor Management Alliance launch (@snkaringi). Tweet by @heiniesuo: Inaugural meeting of #African #Corridor #Management #Alliance: "We need a con...

The poultry trade between South Africa and Namibia is not clearly defined, leading to confusion regarding the actual origin of many chicken products imported into the Southern Afri...

EABC Trade and Policy Brief as at 10 February 2017 The EAC Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (SCTIFI) held its ordinary meeting from 30th Jan to 3rd...

Introduction For the first time since the establishment of the Think20 (T20) process, Think Tanks from across Africa have met with T20 Think Tanks on African soil to discuss the G...

TFTA update: Egypt’s cabinet approves COMESA, EAC, SADC free trade agreement Tinashe Kapuya: ‘US-Africa trade and investment relations: what can we expect from a Trump Adminis...

Trade and investment will occupy a strengthened, pivotal place in the UK’s development policy, indicates UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in its “first ev...

Africa’s cities are growing in population – adding the size of another Nigeria to cities by 2025 – so have a critical role to play in their countries’ economic growth, says...

The World Bank and the International Road and Transport Union (IRU) have jointly released a new guide on Road Freight Transport Services Reform that shows how efficient t...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told a meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi on 9 February that a number of trade issues of interest to India’s eco...

Tanzania’s Fair Competition Commission destroyed counterfeit goods worth over $ 8 million between January and December last year. The counterfeits were impounded from 24 s...