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An analysis prepared by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade On 3 April 2014, Heads of State and Governments of Africa and of the European Union gathered at t...

Industrialization in focus as COMESA Policy organs begin meeting COMESA leaders have begun meeting in Madagascar to set the programme for the next one year for the 19 member regio...

Address by Secretary General, Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko, during the Press Conference on 10th October 2016 at the East African Community (EAC) Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania I warml...

Africa boasts of an abundance of natural resources, in particular aquatic and marine resources, with a potential that has not yet been fully tapped in the context of economic growt...

Noting the socio-economic progress made by African countries and their centrality in major sustainable development discourses, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moo...

Each year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Economic and Statistics Division sends out questionnaires, which intellectual property offices worldwide are expected...

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and African countries are suffering the most from a deepening global trade finance gap according to the ICC 2016 Global Survey on Trade F...

Global FDI flows are expected to drop to between $1.5 and $1.6 trillion in 2016, a fall of 10% to 15% from 2015, before recovering in 2017 and 2018, according to estimates from UNC...

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim came together on 7 October ...

The  Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the institution’s proposal to launch an ‘Africa Investment Forum (AIF)’ – a meeting place for investors ...

COMESA’s Intergovernmental Committee starts Policy Week proceedings (COMESA) The Intergovernmental Committee that brings together Permanent/Principal Secretaries was the first t...

The 3rd meeting of the negotiating forum of the CFTA-Negotiating Forum (CFTA-NF) was held from the 3rd to 7th of October 2016 at the headquarters of the African Union Commission (A...

Joint Press Release from the Department of Trade and Industry of the Republic of South Africa and the EU Delegation to the Republic of South Africa Benefits of a new trade de...

The African Union Border Programme (AUBP) held, on 6 October 2016, a Meeting of Ministers on African Border Issues at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa to review the pr...

The World Bank Group must become “better, stronger, and more agile” to confront major global challenges over the next 15 years, while also working to end extreme poverty, boost...

Intra-African trade must become the new economic paradigm for the continent, as it will help stimulate economic growth and improve the continent’s capacity to resolve its own cha...

Low commodity prices, climate change, and insecurity are forcing many countries to make significant fiscal adjustments, African finance ministers said during the IMF-World Bank Spr...

Finance and development ministers gathered in Washington this weekend at the World Bank’s annual meetings had an ambitious agenda of topics to discuss. But the truth is, it is no...

Finance ministers and central bank governors representing the International Monetary Fund’s 189 member countries convened on 8 October 2016 as the policy-guiding International Mo...

9 October 2016 The Heads of the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developmen...