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Free movement is back on the continent’s policy agenda and within its integration discourse. Such discourse has also been buttressed by several encouraging developments over the ...

The selection: Wednesday, 31 August 2016 Out today: SARS will release SA’s July trade balance at 14h00. Bloomberg consensus is for the surplus to have narrowed to R8.0bn in July...

The annual summit of southern African leaders commenced in Swaziland on 30 August, with an undertaking by the incoming chairperson to push for finalisation of the establishment of ...

Sixty-third executive session of the Trade and Development Board, 27-29 September 2016 Agenda items for the meeting of the Board include presentation of the report on UNCTAD ...

The seemingly slow implementation of regional commitments and lack of full-scale participation of all member States in COMESA programmes have been cited as the major reasons why th...

Kenya has sent a delegation to the European Union for talks, to shield the country from heavy taxes on its exports, as closing the Economic Partnership Agreement by October appears...

A SADC Workshop on Cybersecurity and PKI (public key infrastructure), aiming at sharing best practices and strengthening SADC regional cooperation mechanisms pertaining to c...

The 25th Summit of the Heads of State and Government participating in the African Peer Review Mechanism endorsed the following discussion paper presented by Yoweri Museveni, P...

The selection: Tuesday, 30 August 2016 Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: ‘African central banks: rethink role or stay the course?’ (The Bank of Uganda) But we now live in an age of unc...

His Excellency, The Right Honourable Dr. Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Swaziland officially opened the SADC Council of Ministers in Lozitha, Swaziland...

The Joseph Mubiru Memorial Lecture at the Bank of Uganda’s 50th anniversary was delivered by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister of Nigeria, on 2 August 20...

Southern African leaders will hold an Extra-Ordinary Summit during the first quarter of 2017 to finalise a costed action plan for the region’s industrialisation agenda. The Coun...

Rwanda’s trade deficit has been widening as the import bill continues to outpace export receipts. This has in turn continued to exert pressure on the local currency with the doll...

IGAD Member States representatives, regional and continental stakeholders, private sector actors as well as IGAD, FAO, AUC, and NPCA are attending a two day consultative works...

The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) African Natural Resources Center (ANRC) has published five case studies that look at the different ways in which countries are des...

Statement of the Coalition for an Effective SADC Tribunal on Reinstatement of the SADC Tribunal (with access to individuals), addressed to the SADC member states, 17 August 2016 O...

The African Union is pushing for uniform fishing laws and increased investment in the sector to control the Sh250 billion worth of resources currently trawled away by advanced nati...

The selection: Monday, 29 August 2016 CFTA negotiations update: Kenya signs partnership to speed up intra-Africa trade (The Standard) Kenya's Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Dr...

Japanese and African leaders on Sunday pledged to fight terrorism and emphasized the importance of rules-based maritime order as they wrapped up a Japan-led international conferenc...

At Kenya conference, FAO leader highlights role of agriculture in preventing conflict, enabling recovery Food security and agriculture have an essential role to play in preventing...