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PIDA Progress Report 2016 (NEPAD) The lead implementing PIDA agency, the NEPAD Agency, with support from the AUC, AfDB, partners and stakeholders, continues to interact with the p...

Foreword by Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, NEPAD Agency CEO Africa is a young and vibrant continent. This is considering its rapidly growing young population. According to th...

The East African Community meeting that was to be held this weekend to discuss the Economic Partnership Agreement between the region and the European Union was postponed after se...

Global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) fell 13% in 2016 to an estimated $1.52 trillion as global economic growth remained weak and world trade volumes posted anemic gains,...

The Infra-Gas Projects 2017 summit highlighted the need to intensify interactions between multinationals and local operators. It has become trite to say that Mozambique is emergin...

Starting today, in Mauritius: ‘Cross-border banking and regulatory reforms: implications for Africa from international experience’ Call for papers: ‘Public economics for dev...

As it stands now, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) seems to have hit a dead end, Daily Monitor has learnt. Simply put, EPA is an initiative by the European Union (EU...

The 28th African Union (AU) summit held in Addis Ababa on 30-31st January was a historical one given the landmark decisions adopted, including the admission of Morocco into th...

Nearly 20 leading global banks and investors, totaling $6.6 trillion in assets, launched the Principles for Positive Impact Finance on 30 January 2017 – a first of its kind set o...

New U.K. free trade agreements with non-European Union nations won’t come close to offsetting the impact of leaving the EU, according to the National Institute of Economic and So...

African leaders consider proposals for institutional review of the AU (Ghana Business News) Describing the AU as a “highly dysfunctional organization”, President Kagame, in hi...

A new World Bank policy report urges developing countries and international development agencies to rethink their approach to governance, as a key to overcoming challenges related ...

African Heads of State at the ongoing Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are considering reforms aimed at making their role relevant to...

Group highlights 14 steps African leaders can take to energize fight against illicit flows following Addis Ababa Action Agenda, SDGs, and ECA High Level Panel As national leaders ...

Growth is essential for improving the lives of people in low-income countries, and it should benefit all parts of society. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde takes a...

A guide for those working with and within the African Union Foreword It is a great pleasure to be writing a foreword for the fourth annual edition of the African Union Handbook. ...

South Africa trade surplus beats expectations in December South Africa posted a trade surplus of ZAR 12.04 billion in December of 2016 compared to an upwardly revised ZAR 1.68 bil...

The Africa Ministerial Pre-Consultative Meeting convened in Addis Ababa to prepare for the upcoming 61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) concluded succe...

Manufacturers in Kenya have listed five priority areas to jump start a sector that has experienced a slump in the recent past, growing slower than the GDP since 2014. At the top o...

A Daily Nation primer for today’s AU Heads of State Summit: The schedule and what to expect in Addis Ababa Assembly of Heads of State: remarks by Chairperson of the African Unio...