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The selection: Friday, 27 May 2016 Launched today: Tanzania Service Delivery Indicators report (World Bank) tralac Newsletter: Financial services in the TPP and the interests of ...

President Jacob Zuma said continental leaders are envisaging to conclude negotiations on the continental free-trade area by next year. He also said  the continent should work...

Remarks by Kofi Annan, Chair of the Africa Progress Panel, at the AfDB Annual Meetings 2016 High Level Side Event entitled “Africa’s Energy: What’s the New Deal?”...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) have wrapped up negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), and are expected to sign th...

The region’s future depends on much more than fluctuations in commodity prices Is Africa’s surge of progress over? During the past two decades, many countries across the conti...

Research has shown that the expansion of international trade is essential to development and poverty reduction and that trade can drive poverty reduction through a number of channe...

The African Development Bank is planning to expand its trade finance products across the continent in the coming years as it seeks to bridge the existing funding gap to support tra...

The EAC on 26 May presented Budget estimates for the Financial Year 2016/2017 totaling $101,374,589 to the East African Legislative Assembly sitting in Arusha. Deputy Minister for ...

120 ministers among over one thousand delegates in Nairobi charting course for strong action on sustainable future Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on 26 May 2016 urged hundreds...

The 2015 year highlighted the growing momentum for countries to voluntarily embrace putting a price on carbon pollution, as a means of cutting emissions. The report, Carbon P...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, says plans have been concluded to sign visa-free pacts with a bloc of eight African countries to promote economic partnership ...

The selection: Thursday, 26 May 2016 Today: the AfDB’s Annual Civil Society Forum, EAC Budget Speech 2016/2017 Forthcoming SADC Ministerial workshops: the energy and water cris...

Despite the difficult and challenging global economic situation, African countries achieved considerable economic progress in 2015, registering a 3.6% average GDP growth during the...

Foreword The rationale of the Building Bridges programme is that there are several well-known challenges that Africans face as continental citizens but there has been slow progres...

The Economic Commission for Africa carried out a study on behalf of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) entitled “ECOWAS at 40: An Assessment of the Progress M...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has welcomed a new World Trade Organization (WTO) report which examines the urgent need to address the trade finance gap for small- and ...

During perhaps the most ambitious year for making plans to ramp up green and inclusive growth on the continent, the African Development Bank’s Annual Civil Society (CSO) Forum ta...

Foreword by the Director-General of UNESCO The comprehensive high-level mid-term review of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), held from 27-...

Regional Efforts in Favor of Trade Facilitation and how it ties in with Aid for Trade Statement by Mr. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD, at a SIECA event at the W...

Despite an uncertain global economic landscape, Africa’s prospects are positive, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on 25 May 2016, urging the continent...