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Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to boost standardization activities betw...

The selection: Tuesday, 31 May 2016 Namibian economist, Mihe Gaomab II, has been elected as the AfDB's executive director for the Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe constituenc...

Business leaders meeting on 30 May 2016 at the WTO headquarters outlined how the organization could address the current needs of the business community. In addition to the current...

During the last decade and a half, African economies grew at nearly double the rate of the 1990s. However, the commodity boom obscured a key weakness in African economic ...

The Kingdom of Swaziland is intensifying preparations for the annual regional summit where southern African countries will review progress towards deepening integration and promoti...

East Africa’s transport corridors have been in the news almost continuously for the last three years. As usually happens, the media created its own narrative to capture the curre...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has come under intense financial distress that is threatening to bring some of its statutory functions and projects to a halt...

The WTO has published its 2016 Annual Report covering the organization’s activities in 2015 and early 2016. The Report begins with a message from Director-General Roberto Azevê...

Trade policy must be carefully crafted to ensure trade helps to reduce poverty, concluded a joint WTO-World Bank forum on 26 May, with speakers explaining how sound policies can he...

The world’s environment ministers, gathered at the second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) in Nairobi on late Friday, passed far reaching decisions on ...

ITC publication explores transformative effect of e-commerce sets out challenges and opportunities for SMEs E-commerce across borders is transforming the business world in develop...

The selection: Monday, 30 May 2016 Tanzania and the TFTA: National Trade Facilitation Committee workshop on planning the effective implementation of the TFA within the E...

A major United Nations meeting focusing on the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) closed on 29 May in Antalya, Turkey, with a call for greater support to the world’s most...

An expert meeting on Trade as a Tool for the Economic Empowerment of Women was held by the Trade, Gender and Development Unit on 23 and 24 May 2016 to promote a better understandin...

Members of the Partnership on Illicit Finance (PIF) met alongside the African Development Bank at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Lusaka, Zambia, to publish national acti...

Three men emerged as stars at the just concluded African Development Bank (AfDB) 51st Annual Meetings held in the Zambian capital Lusaka; they’re Edgar Lungu, the Zambian Preside...

The target of Agenda 2063 of the African Union is to see: “intra-Africa trade growing from less than 12% in 2013 to approaching 50% by 2045”. To meet this target, int...

Rwanda is laying the ground for the removal of visa requirements for African nationals ahead of a 2018 deadline set by the African Union. The agency in charge of immigration says ...

Remarks by Director-General Roberto Azevêdo Good afternoon. I’m delighted to be here in Astana. In our lifetimes, the global economy has been transformed by technological inno...

Nairobi dominates the real-time cross-border bank transfer system operated by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) due to the high number of Kenyan firms oper...