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The selection: Monday, 31 October 2016 South Africa’s September trade data will be released later today Pointers: A two-day EAC Regional Integration Conference starts today in...

The 4th Meeting of the Tripartite Council of Ministers took place in Nairobi, Kenya. The Ministers considered progress made, and provided guidance on outstanding issues t...

Kenya’s overall economic performance has remained robust over the past eight years, and it is expected to continue into the medium term at a rate of 6% 2017, according to the lat...

The European Union (EU) has maintained its position as Tanzania’s largest trading partner, with two billion US dollar (over 4trn/-) trade volume last year, a new report has revea...

Countries bordering the Indian Ocean adopted a communiqué aimed at joint efforts to tackle various problems, ranging from maritime threats to economic inequality, at a meeting hos...

South Africa is working to improve the promotion of competitive products in order to expand trade volumes and improve its trade structure. “We are working towards the promotion ...

The second EAC Common Market Scorecard (CMS) 2016 which evaluates implementation of the EAC Common Market Protocol was launched on 27 October 2016 in Kampala, Uganda by the EAC Dep...

The selection: Friday, 28 October 2016 Featured tweets from CFTA/TFTA-focussed discussions held yesterday in Geneva and Lusaka: @SabineBohlke: Boosting intra African trade should...

Presentation on the draft eleventh National Development Plan (NDP 11), delivered by Hon. O.K. Matambo, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, to the National Assembly on 26&...

Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) South Africa has completed all the administrativ...

Africa must institute stronger financial control mechanisms and capacity-building for customer due diligence and corporate governance in order to attract capital competitively and ...

​​​For a decade South Africa has been measuring its national logistics costs in a standardised, internationally benchmarked way. The Logistics Barometer presents the lat...

South African exporters have been encouraged to utilise more of the tariff lines negotiated under the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA). This came through at the two-day Team Ex...

The First Ordinary Session meeting of the STC on Transport, Intercontinental and Interregional Infrastructures, Energy and Tourism will be held in Lomé, Togo from 13 to 17 March 2...

The selection: Thursday, 27 October 2016 Launching today, in Kampala: The East African Community Common Market Scorecard 2016 Featured tweet, @Bonguglo: ’Amb Aparr, Uganda, at ...

Advancing Socio-Economic Structural Transformation through Intra-Africa Trade Africa Trade Week 2016 will be held at the African Union Head Quarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from...

International Development Secretary Priti Patel pledges more help to create jobs, build livelihoods and support the poorest people in Africa to work their way out of poverty, durin...

Transformative regional integration could be achieved through collaboration between countries rather than through economic competition, economists and policymakers said yesterday. ...

The world needs a new mechanism to deal with sovereign debt crises, which represent a growing danger to the economic stability of many developing countries. The world needs a new ...

SA should grow economy through inclusive growth Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says to get the country on a path of better growth, all sectors of the economy should work with gov...