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Address by the Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba MP, on the occasion of the Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture in Johannesburg in September 2016 I wish to thank you for the oppor...

The selection: Wednesday, 7 September 2016 Starting today, in Guangzhou: the Second Investing in Africa Forum The Forum (7-8 Sept) is one of important outcomes of the first IAF h...

G20 Leaders welcome launch of platform on inclusive business Leaders at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China emphasized the need for sustainable and inclusive growth, and welcomed th...

The words ‘Tripartite Free Trade Area’ (TFTA) were among the most commonly used phrases at the Global African Investment Summit, which closed yesterday, at the Kigali Conventio...

Heads of state and high-level officials from over 40 countries are among 1500 agriculture experts gathering in Nairobi, Kenya for the Sixth African Green Revolution Forum, where th...

World manufacturing growth is expected to remain low in 2016 due to weakened financial support for productive activities, according to a report released on 5 September 2016 by the ...

Uganda is planning to establish cross-border markets to cut trade losses resulting from instability in some of its neighbours. Last year, the country’s export revenues fel...

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has stepped up the war against counterfeits, introducing a smartphone application that can be used to verify genuine products. Dealers in b...

The selection: Tuesday, 6 September 2016 G20 Leaders’ Communiqué: inclusive and interconnected development We launch the G20 Initiative on Supporting Industrialization in...

The 11th summit of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies concluded in Hangzhou on Monday, 5 September 2016, reaching extensive consensus on pursuing innovative, invigorated, i...

In the run-up to the 11th G20 Summit taking place in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, on 4 and 5 September, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) published a new...

China has agreed to co-operate with trading partners on volatile steel exports China agreed to co-operate more closely with trading partners on its politically volatile steel expo...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Uganda’s Yoweri Kaguta Museveni have decried the existing hurdles that hamper trade between African countries and continued export of raw mate...

Africa may need as much as $400 billion of investment in food production over the next decade to meet the continent’s needs, a report showed. “It could require $315 billion to...

Brics leaders met on the margins of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China on Sunday, according to a statement issued by the Brics counties. President Jacob Zuma and Finance Minister P...

The Republic of South Sudan on 5 September 2016 deposited the instrument of ratification on the Accession to the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community to the...

The selection: Monday, 5 September 2016 Today, in Kigali: the Global African Investment Summit. A preview; an interview with TGAIS programme director, Amanda Basi. Twitter updates...

President Xi Jinping no fan of US-led trade pacts China has been fighting an uphill battle to revive global interest in a multilateral trade system at the G20 summit in Hangz...

Diversifying economies beyond land-based activities and along coasts in a climate-smart way is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and delivering sustaina...

Now that Kenya and Rwanda have gone ahead and signed the EAC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (on Thursday, September 1), putting an end to a torturous nail-biting wait by Kenya...