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The selection: Friday, 21 October 2016 Out next Tuesday: The Doing Business 2017 report Featured tweets: @WorldBankPSD: Paul Brenton: "Reducing trade barriers in agriculture in ...

Exports had remained stagnant or drastically declined due to low world prices, failure to adapt to changing markets and policies penalizing their traditional activity, Maldives’ ...

The World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty has submitted recommendations on how to more comprehensively measure and monitor global poverty in support of the Bank Group’s goa...

African banks are sinking deeper into trouble. Drowning in bad debt and swamped by slowing economies, more and more of the continent’s lenders are starting to fail.  The co...

Finance minister Calle Schlettwein yesterday said a new tariff book will be gazetted next month as part of Namibia's Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union. ...

The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) Rwanda has called for more sensitisation about rules of origin policies between regional blocs to ensure local traders understand them to be...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S.-Africa Business Center released a new on 18 October 2016 on trade facilitation in East Africa, outlining the work governments in the reg...

The selection: Thursday, 20 October 2016 Tenth African Development Forum postponed to 2017 (UNECA) COMESA Summit: Heads of State and Government communiqué On outstanding issues...

The 19th COMESA Heads of State and Governments Summit has come to close with leaders attending the Summit issuing a Communiqué on a raft of decisions to advance the COME...

The selection: Wednesday, 19 October 2016 Towards an Africa Open Data Network: an update from LDRI Building the future: a look at the economic potential of East Africa (US-Africa...

East African Community (EAC) regional block have never reached a consensus on the issuance of the single tourist visa by Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. "There has never been any ag...

The United States Government has stated that Nigeria and other African countries accounted for $4.1 billion worth of non-oil trade under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA...

At a press conference, the CEO of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI), George Otieno, along with H.E. Dina Mufti, the Ethiopian Ambassador and Gabriel Negatu, Regional Directo...

The selection: Tuesday, 18 October 2016 COMESA Summit updates: Countries seek COMESA support for top jobs at the AU: Eight countries presented requests to the COMESA Council of M...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Secretariat will publish annual assessments of the benefits and challenges of the Free Trade Area for consideration by member st...

Parliamentary group inquiry calls on new UK Government to create “prosperity partnership” with Africa based on development, trade and investment An Inquiry Committee of distin...

The selection: Monday, 17 October 2016 Starting tomorrow, in Accra: the 2016 ReSAKSS Annual Conference SADC Regional Poverty Observatory: EOIs for impact evaluation Extraordinar...

We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa, met on 1...

The vision of industrialization in the African continent has been elusive but not impossible as demonstrated by a few member States that have moved away from the traditional model,...

Sustainable investment in Africa: An overview Africa, a continent on the rise, achieved relatively high economic growth during the past 15 years in spite of all the constraints, w...