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The 2nd Meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum (CFTA-NF), kicked off on Monday, 16 May at the African Union Commission (AUC) Headquarters in Addis Ababa. Dur...

The Senior Officials Session of the First AU Specialized Technical Committee on Trade, Industry and Minerals (STC-TIM), kicked off on Monday, 16 May at the African Union Commission...

A report on the key findings of GTR’s East Africa Trade & Commodity Finance conference 2016 Recognised as the leading gathering of trade finance professionals in the re...

Governments in Africa should put into place fiscal rules, sovereign wealth funds and other mechanisms to buffer their economies from the commodities roller-coaster, according to a ...

Trade restrictions that relate to health and quality standards of foodstuff commodities constitute nearly 80% of the reported Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) among regional States and t...

Over sixty officials from law enforcement agencies and financial intelligence are meeting in Zambia this week in a workshop to discuss effective ways of collaborating to strengthen...

Earlier last week I joined the management and employees of Guestro Castings and Machining – a black-owned manufacturing company – to launch the eighth iteration of the country...

Increased resource efficiency can also lead to economic gains More efficient use of natural resources, together with ambitious global action on climate change, could achieve big c...

At a meeting of the WTO General Council on 12 May, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo called on members to step up their interactions in order to advance WTO negotiations. He repeat...

The selection: Monday, 16 May 2016 Starting today: Mozambique president, Filipe Nyusi's state visit to China (Xinhua) Industrial cooperation, notably in natural gas exploration a...

Leaders are rooting for free visa access to all African countries by Africans, to ease movement by citizens. Africa still suffers from a host of trade hurdles which make mobility ...

Economic growth across the region is likely to remain slower in coming years than it has been over the past 10 to 15 years. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) projection for...

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will convene the second session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD 2016) on 17-19 May, in Cairo, Egypt. The AR...

An ambitious plan to revamp and extend the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (Tazara) to four other countries is in the pipeline. Government officials from Ta...

East African Community member states have failed to reach a deal on a common tax rate as the bloc’s smaller economies worry about significant revenue losses. The failure t...

Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is about to become much more difficult thanks to the imminent entry into force of the Port State Measures Agreement, a ground-brea...

A new Free Trade Agreement between MERCOSUR and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) entered into force on 1 April 2016, providing preference margins of 10%, 25%, 50% and 100% ...

Cities are hotspots for global emissions and climate vulnerability, so it’s no wonder they are pushing for action on climate change. Nowhere was that more evident than at COP21 i...

We, participants (comprising high level officials and leaders from government, diplomatic community, private sector, think tanks, civil society, media, and development partners) to...

On the heels of a United Nations special meeting on El Niño, the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has emphasized the need to reduce the impact of the pheno...