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Sustainability moved decisively towards being a core value of the global community in 2015. In September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new 2030 Agenda for Sustain...

The international community must boost efforts to build the capacity for disaster risk management and readiness to prevent El Niño weather extremes from causing humanitarian crise...

Revenue authorities in East Africa face an uphill task of trying to meet increased targets and narrow the growing deficits in their countries’ budgets. Tanz...

This paper briefly discusses the macroeconomic effects of low international oil prices and places particular emphasis on the policy implications for Commonwealth countries. It draw...

The Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) adopted at the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Istanbul, Turkey in May 2011, constitutes an ambitious policy age...

Small States like Seychelles have served as a “magnifying lens” for many issues that all nations must face, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Nati...

The selection: Friday, 6 May 2016 Featured tweet: ‏@UNCTADinAfrica: A call for a meticulous yet open minded approach 2 a pan African CFTA by Commissioner Acyl & @Erastus_Mwe...

Recalling that just two weeks ago, 175 countries came to the United Nations to sign the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, Secretary-General ...

The WSIS Forum 2016 was held from the 2-6 May 2016 at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva. This year the Forum attracted more than 2000 WSIS Stakeholders from more than 150 countries. ...

African development finance institutions must come together in partnership in order to more effectively tackle the challenges affecting the financing of intra-African trade, partic...

Evidence indicates that trade costs are a much more substantial barrier to trade than tariffs are, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) tra...

While trends in the rest of the world show an improvement in poverty levels compared to 20 years ago, Africa is getting poorer. This is according to the African Social Development ...

The African Development Bank Group will unveil its new agenda for the continent’s economic transformation at this year’s Annual Meetings scheduled to take place from ...

Two weeks after 175 government representatives came together in New York City to sign the historic Paris Climate Agreement, leaders are gathering in Washington, D.C. to advance con...

African, Caribbean and Pacific Ministers concluded their 103rd session at the King Fahd Palace in Dakar, Senegal on 27 April 2016 with a renewed determination to ensure the su...

South Sudan has joined the COMESA Regional Customs Transit Guarantee (RCTG) Scheme after signing the instruments of accession, Thursday 5 May 2016. The signing ceremony took place...

With 85 think tanks from 45 countries attending, the 2016 Africa Think Tank Conference succeeded in bringing together more than 120 participants to discuss issues pertinent to both...

FAO’s updated global cereal harvest forecast points to stable markets for key staples Global prices of key staple food commodities rose in April, marking its third consecutive m...

Featured infographic: Mapped – the global coal trade (Carbon Brief) Conference alerts: starting today, in Naivasha, the first African Employers’ Summit; in Antananarivo, the f...

The 2nd Intra-Regional Forum on Migration in Africa began today in Lusaka, Zambia with a call to African leaders to back their stated commitments to the Protocols on Free Movement ...