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The 2015 annual report gives an overview of STDF’s results delivered against the agreed targets and indicators of the STDF Work Plan (2015-2016), based on the STDF’s Mediu...

The selection: Friday, 17 June 2016 Concluding today, in Nairobi: World Bank’s East Africa transport corridors and impact evaluation workshop Ahead of this weekend’s SACU Min...

Local governance, stepping up intra-ACP trade and common management of ACPEU migration were among the topics discussed by the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) at its 31st ...

A global meeting of MPs specializing in international trade has called for urgent action to implement multilateral agreements which benefit the developing world. More than 400 par...

There are many reasons to invest in Africa and even more reasons to believe in Africa, international delegates were told at the Consumer Goods Forum global summit in Cape Town, 15-...

The Government of Tanzania, through the Planning Commission in the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MOFP), launched the second Five-Year Development Plan (FYDP II) (2016/17-2...

On the occasion of the International Day of Family Remittances, June 16, the World Bank, IFAD, WSBI and UNCDF, in their joint efforts to support Postal Operators in Africa to offer...

In barely two months, the daily withdrawal limit in Zimbabwe has gone down from $1000 to $500 and then to $300. This simply means that daily withdrawal limits now average between $...

The selection: Wednesday, 15 June 2016 Mauritius and Brexit: Prime Minister’s statement to National Assembly (GoM) No formal inter-ministerial committee has been established on...

Trade experts on Tuesday called on the member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to step up efforts to minimize the burdens that non-tariff measures (...

Since 2000, the rise of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – as major global players has benefited Africa through increased trade and foreign d...

The UK’s possible exit from the EU could prompt a renegotiation of the recently signed EU-Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), Will...

The Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), meeting in Luanda, Angola, on 14th June, 2016 at the invitation of His Exc...

The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is an almost invisible organisation. Yet it has arguably had a profound impact on South Africa’s economic and even political relations w...

Is there more that the G20 can do to restore trade and economic growth and, if so, what could the T20 think tanks do to help? Hector Rogelio Torres, Executive Director at the Inte...

Global private infrastructure investment in 2015 mostly remained steady at $111.6 billion when compared to the previous year, according to new data from the World Bank Group...

The African Union (AU) is prepared to launch the electronic passport (e-Passport) at the next AU Summit tabled to take place in Kigali, Rwanda, in July 2016. This flagship project...

Exporters are hoping that a barter-deal, in the lines of India and Iran had done around 2012-13 Pharma exporters from India hoping for a barter deal to be worked ou...

Remarks delivered at the NCFC’s 18th Annual Washington Conference in Washington, D.C., 14 June 2016 It’s always a pleasure to meet with groups such as yours. Farm cooperatives...

The selection: Tuesday, 14 June 2016 Featured infographic, @eclac_un: ‘The Top 20 ports in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015’ The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly is...