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Key members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) on Tuesday emphasised urgent need for Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt to synergize by leveraging on intra-African trade in th...

Efforts to advance the East African Community have often veered between halfhearted and impractical. The regional grouping must adapt – via strong yet achievable economic steps ...

East African exchanges should fast-track integration initiatives like the capital markets infrastructure (CMI) project, and create a pool of skilled personnel. This is essential t...

Government officials and PPP practitioners make difficult decisions about infrastructure projects all the time. But perhaps the choice they grapple with the most is which projects ...

The minister of solid minerals, Kayode Fayemi, has charged the civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country to hold government at all levels accountable on their electoral pro...

A status report released last week indicated that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is 90 per cent done with completion of the Nairobi section expected early next year. By any st...

The selection: Tuesday, 16 August 2016 Global Innovation Index 2016 (WIPO) According to WIPO, among the GII 2016 leaders, four economies – Japan, the US, the UK, and Germany ...

A new report published by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has shown that for the first time, a middle-income country, China, has joined highly de...

A report authored by Social Action, a social development organisation, indicates that Nigeria stands to loose up to $1.3 trillion in forms of customs duties, taxation and other rev...

Summit set to chart economic direction The G20 summit, to be held in the East China city of Hangzhou, will focus on international cooperation in the face of economic risks and cha...

On 16 June 2016, the European Commission seven-year-ban on all Zambian registered carriers into European Union (EU) airspace was lifted. This ban was imposed following several fin...

$45 million additional funding urgently needed to support Ethiopian agriculture With this year’s main planting season winding down in Ethiopia, there is still a small window of ...

East African Community states need to develop rural infrastructure (especially electricity and ICT) to enhance mobile phone penetration and facilitate its use. The call was made b...

In the new arrangement, counties will be empowered to allocate land to investors. The government has ratified new rules allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in the establishme...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya are entering a new era as financial institutions heighten the scramble for this lucrative sector with all manner of tactics and j...

The selection: Monday, 15 August 2016 UNECA/UNITAR e-learning course on industrialization in Africa via trade: registration details (26 Sept - 4 Nov) SADC endorses Venson-Moitoi ...

Ministers responsible for regional integration will hold talks this week in a last-ditch effort to get the East Africa Community to continue negotiating for an international...

This paper gives a general overview of trade figures and dynamics in the ECOWAS region with a focus on agricultural and food products. The study points to some of the overarching a...

Statement prepared by SEATINI-Uganda for the extra-ordinary meeting of EAC partner states to take a decision on the EPA, to be held on 18 August 2016 Introduction There are numer...

Africa has made remarkable progress in implementing global and regional gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments. Gender equality and women’s empowerment have been ...