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In a sudden twist, comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) will not be signed today as earlier plann...

Some commodity dependent developing countries are losing as much as 67% of their exports worth billions of dollars to trade misinvoicing, according to a fresh study by UNCTAD, whic...

Civil Society Forum officially opens at the 14th UNCTAD Conference The international civil society is calling upon governments to uphold commitments made during the 2012 UNCTAD Co...

For the past 18 months, officials have worried about a global trade slowdown. This column summarises the latest Global Trade Alert report, which shows that, in fact, global tr...

A one-stop shop to support intra-Africa trade and intra-Africa investments has been launched by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies in Pretoria on Friday. The one-sto...

Government will this week engage South Africa to discuss issues of mutual economic concern, joint ventures, credit lines, markets and Harare’s policy to restrict certain imports ...

Senior political leaders meeting on Saturday at the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on 16 July 2016, called on the continental a...

Global GDP growth rate was 3.1% in 2015 and – before the Brexit shock – was forecast at 3.4% in 2016 and 3.6% in 2017. This is being driven by a weak and uneven ...

The EP Trade committee gave its green light to an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with six member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Thursday. The...

The UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty (APPG-TOP) is undertaking an inquiry into the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative (AFTi). The Inquiry has been ext...

Africa should prioritise trade and industrial sectors to address most of the prevailing challenges the continent faces, including the high rate of unemployment, to ensure sustainab...

Financial services in Côte d’Ivoire: Banks set aside in favour of mobile money  Côte d’Ivoire has been enjoying an economic upturn since the return of political stabili...

Four East African countries are set to sign economic partnership agreement with the European Union (EU) next week in Nairobi, a senior Kenyan official said on Wednesday. Kenya’s...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said yesterday that illicit financial flows, tax evasion and transfer pricing were major contributors to South Africa’s and Africa’s tax gap. G...

Days before a major meeting of the governing body of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), over 100 non-governmental organisations worldwide are calling ...

In a speech at the Center for Global Development on 14 July, IMF Chief Christine Lagarde discusses the mix of strong policies and robust external support needed to enable the 1.3 b...

The unique challenges of countries in special situations needed to stay at the forefront of efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development Agenda speakers said on Th...

The single most crucial component in rejuvenating decaying urban areas around the world is private sector participation, according to a report released on 13 July 2016 from the Wor...

Throughout the 2000s, Chinese demand for primary goods like oil, iron, copper, and zinc helped Africa reduce poverty more than it had in decades. Even so, China’s total investm...

The selection: Thursday, 14 July 2016 Featured infographic, @InvestEAfrica: the state of EAC exports to the US Now available: David Dollar’s study ‘China’s engagement with...