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China’s economic slowdown, the slump in commodity prices, dwindling consumer spending power and the drought negatively affected South Africa’s container trade in the first quar...

The team working on Ghana’s commodities exchange, the first in West Africa, is confident trading on the exchange will commence in the first quarter of 2017 – starting with Maiz...

The selection: Tuesday, 21 June 2016 Launching today: World Investment Report 2016 The World Investment Report 2016, examines international production by multinational enterprise...

For months, President Muhammadu Buhari opposed devaluing Nigeria’s currency, saying he wouldn’t support having the naira “killed.” That stance shifted Monday, when the cen...

Giant leaps in financial inclusion driven by private sector innovation and supportive regulation have made Kenya a case study in financial sector development. A new book brings tog...

The fourth review of the trade policies and practices of Zambia took place on 21 and 23 June 2016. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by ...

In late 2015, African countries finalised the drafting of the Pan-African Investment Code (PAIC). What is the added value of this continental instrument related to the regulation o...

Against the backdrop of technological advances and new modes of production, how to leverage the potential of FDI to develop the service sector in African low-income countries? Ser...

Ghana is expected to go paperless in its trade facilitation process by 2017. The country currently has a semi-paperless status where a chunk of the process involved in the import,...

The WTO’s fifteenth trade monitoring report on G20 trade measures, issued on 21 June, shows the application of new trade-restrictive measures by G20 economies increased compared ...

Governments need to implement more ambitious policies to address the global challenges facing agriculture, notably a shift away from direct support to farmers towards greater assis...

Tanzania is not left behind; already the Bank of Tanzania’s five per cent of foreign currency reserve is being held in Renminbi, according to BoT governor Prof Beno Ndulu. “Th...

The selection: Monday, 20 June 2016 Today, in Dar: MEFMI countries governors meet to discuss China’s yuan Featured tweet, @ChinaAfricaBlog: South Africa’s Rand to become...

Zambia has become the 17th country to sign the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement. Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Honourable Margaret Mwanakatwe signed ...

Note prepared by the WTO Secretariat for the Formal Meeting of the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, 30 June to 1 July 2016 The Standards and Trade Developmen...

It took 12 years of grinding negotiations, muted tempers and repressed frustrations, but this week, the European Union and six SADC states signed a deal observers say is the sweete...

Namibian authorities will engage in further deliberations regarding the implementation of stringent new livestock import regulations by South Africa as from July 1 for Namibia, Bot...

India makes a strong case for discussing barriers imposed by US, European Union and Canada on short term service providers China was in a large majority of developing countries, i...

The UK referendum on whether to stay in the EU will have an impact far beyond Europe. Africans are also watching closely – and have to prepare to deal with the vote’s consequen...

Multi-year effort offers valuable lessons in how to halt land degradation and desertification Improved land management strategies and technologies being used across sub-Saharan Af...