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Climate change key for Lesotho’s domestic and industrial water security, agricultural production and regional water transfers Improving Lesotho’s national water resources infr...

In the past two decades, African governments have paid billions to private companies in form of settlement of international disputes. Nearer home, Kenya is still reeling after the ...

You have just finalised your travel plans: Done your budget, reserved the tickets and accommodation and confirmed your passport is up to date. Then it hits you: You don’t have ...

Since 2010, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is supporting selected LDCs rural communities in their efforts to promote traditional products thro...

The selection: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 Mainstream human rights into trade agreements and WTO practice (OHCHR) The United Nations Independent Expert on the promotion of a dem...

This could be very good news – international trade grew in the second quarter of 2016, according to OECD figures. This halts two years of declining figures. It’s a rare piece ...

The United Nations Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred de Zayas, on 13 September 2016 called on States and Parliaments to ...

At the MIDSA Technical Workshop on Addressing Mixed Migration in Southern Africa: Linking Protection, Immigration, Border Management and Labour Migration held in Gaborone, Republic...

Remarks by Mitsuhiro Furusawa, IMF Deputy Managing Director, on the 50th Anniversary of the Central Bank of Kenya Ladies and Gentlemen, Governor Njoroge, I am honored to join...

The selection: Tuesday, 13 September 2016 The 28th IGAD Extra-ordinary Summit of Heads of States and Government takes place today in Mogadishu. Official hashtag: #IGADMog2016 The...

Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) has seen unprecedented economic growth since the turn of the millennium: poverty rates have steadily declined, and rural livelihoods have improved ...

Trade and standards are key for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), said Cecile Fruman, World Bank Group Director, Trade and Competitiveness Global ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) comprises 15 countries with the common objective of regional integration. Member countries have been successful in reducing tariff...

Following Kenya’s national commitment to devolving local government, its newly-formed counties are enacting significant reforms to improve the investment climate, in a bid to spu...

Senior United Nations officials, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder on 12 September ...

As Rwanda moves to implement green growth strategy and build green secondary cities across the country, World Bank Group chief economist on sustainable development Marianne Fay has...

Africa’s natural resources are being appropriated by foreign private interests who are leaving a devastating trail of social, environmental and human rights abuses in their ...

Although the domestic market for ivory is small, Singapore has, for the first time, been named “a country of primary concern” by wildlife monitoring network Traffic, for its ro...

The selection: Monday, 12 September 2016 Today is UN Day for South-South Cooperation: Will the world’s largest single market transform Africa fortunes? Opening today, in Beijin...

Getting just a sliver of the global trade in goods and services worth more than 70 trillion dollars, Africans have every excuse to decide to trade among themselves. Many argue tha...