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Governance and corruption are controversial issues of great significance for sustainable development. Fostering structural transformation requires more than a national policy and ...

The South African Revenue Service puts the value of SA exports to the US in 2014 at ZAR 70.4 billion, or around $6.1 billion based on that year’s average exchange rate of ZAR 11....

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty (APPG-TOP) received written submissions supporting the Inquiry into UK’s Africa Free Trade initiative from the following...

The selection: Tuesday, 26 April 2016 Featured blog: 'Measuring the pulse of Africa one phone call at a time' (Alvin Etang Ndip, World Bank) Northern Corridor Integration Project...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, 12 April 2016 in Beijing called on the Nigerian and Chinese business communities to work harder to reduce the trade imbalance between both co...

More than half of African businesses reduced investments in capital projects in the first quarter of the year due to gloomy economic outlook and declining business confidence. Thi...

Leaders of Africa’s top financial institutions will gather in Abidjan from 2 to 3 May for the first ever continental conference looking at the current state of intra-African trad...

Under the Doha Mandate, the eighth session of the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Commodities and Development was held from 21 to 22 April 2016, in Room XXVI of the Palais des Nations...

Growing concern for impacts of lost and abandoned fishing gear – marking guidelines being developed Modern technologies that make it easier to recover lost fishing gear are givi...

Growth in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) region remains subdued owing to persistently low oil prices and deepening regional conflicts, said the IM...

The selection: Monday, 25 April 2016 This week: At the WTO: Malawi's Trade Policy Review, 27/29 April In Dar: the Russian-African Business Forum In Dakar: trade and development...

In an extraordinary show of support for the Paris Climate Change Agreement adopted last December, 175 Parties (174 countries and the European Union) signed up to it at a ceremony a...

The development of climate resilient infrastructure is now under the scrutiny of African officials as the continent foresees tremendous potential in infrastructure needs over the n...

TradeMark East Africa has been supporting the elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) to trade in the East African Community (EAC). NTBs arise when rules or regulations (non-tari...

The Heads of State under the Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIP) initiative on Saturday, 23 April 2016 commended ministers for progress to date on NCIP projects and urged...

The Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Mrs. Fatima Haram Acyl, participated on April 11-12, 2016 in the annual African Growth Opportuni...

Cocoa farmers in some of the world’s poorest countries are scarcely benefitting from a value chain which sees goods made from their crops, such as chocolate and cocoa butter-base...

For more than 2,000 years, China’s commercial ties with the outside world have been symbolized by the ancient Silk Road, which began as a tortuous trading network of mountain pat...

The selection: Friday, 22 April 2016 Concluding today, in Gaborone: the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly regional meeting. Access the presentations: Boitumelo Sebonego (SADC), ...

Today I will join world leaders in ratifying the historic climate agreement we negotiated in Paris last December. After years of campaigning on this issue, it is with great pl...