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Delegates also point to trade, infrastructure as opportunities for future growth Pledging to support an Africa that was stable, prosperous and at peace with itself, speakers on 14...

The selection: Friday, 14 October 2016 Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel: speech at African Union Commission In 2017 Germany will assume the Presidency of the Group of 20. We will...

Next time you pick up sporting gear or a pair of jeans in a U.S. mall, do check the label. It may have been made in Lesotho, a small, mountainous and land-locked country completely...

Africa’s leaders must see their marine space as important for its economic potential, not just as a security threat. Reversing traditional ‘sea blindness’ is a no-brainer fo...

The Chinese Yuan and the Indian Rupee will be included in the Regional Payment and Settlement System (REPSS) operated by the COMESA Clearing House.as mode of as a mode of payments....

Public and private sector stakeholders meet and agree on reform action plans The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the World Bank Group co-hosted two workshop...

The selection: Thursday, 13 October 2016 The BRICS trade ministerial meeting takes place today in Goa, as does the BRICS Business Forum. A selection of trade policy commentaries a...

Trade Ministers’ Communiqué New Delhi, 13 October 2016 1. The 6th meeting of the BRICS Trade Ministers was held on 13 October, 2016 in New Delhi on the threshold of the 8th BR...

The COMESA region has remained the fastest growing economy in the world with five member States – D R Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – recording growth lev...

An immediate push for a BRICS Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will polarise heavily-industrialised and lesser-industrialised nations within the five-member grouping, warned South Africa...

At the invitation of H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, paid a historic State Visit to Kenya from ...

South Africa on Wednesday pressed for revival of the negotiations for the proposed preferential trade agreement between India and five-nation Southern African Customs Union (SACU)....

The Kenyan business community wants levies and entry restrictions imposed by South Africa on Kenyan products such as tea, soda ash and processed meat dropped. Representatives wh...

The global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal deadline of 2030, according to data from the 2016 Global Hunger Index. If hun...

The selection: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 Underway, in Abuja: Transfer pricing regional meeting for ECOWAS Member States The meeting (11-13 October) provides a platform for ...

South Africa and Kenya have agreed to create an enabling environment to ease the conditions for doing business between the two countries. The President said this on Tuesday at a m...

A new, revised and supplemented edition of the atlas A New Emerging Rural World – An Overview of Rural Change in Africa is just out. It was officially launched at the second Afri...

Zambian policy makers, like others in commodity-exporting countries, have faced increasing challenges in the past two years, in the face of reduced demand from China and uncertain ...

Control over the global food value chain is getting consolidated in fewer private hands, posing serious security concerns Four current multibillion-dollar deals in the agriculture...

The selection: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 Featured tweet, @AUTradeIndustry: 5th AUC Industry Stakeholders Strategic retreat & AU SME Strategy & Master plan 2017-2021 worksho...