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The 13th Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIP) summit in Kampala kicked off on 19 April 2016 with several technical and ministerial meetings. Running under the chairmanshi...

Ivory Coast is Africa’s fastest growing economy, according to the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook. The West African nation’s GDP is expected to grow by 8.5% this y...

Uganda has cautioned its traders to remove overstayed cargo at the Mombasa port before next month when a final waiver on storage charges expires. An estimated 637 cargo cont...

The selection: Tuesday, 19 April 2016 Featured infographic: African states where over 80% of electricity is renewable AMCEN: 'Agenda 2030 and Paris Agreement: from policy to impl...

With recent developments in trade and regional integration in Africa, the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty is launching an inquiry into the progress and fut...

How can Africa mitigate the potential negative impacts of mega-regional trade agreements and support its structural transformation efforts through trade? Since the early 2000s, re...

OECD’s Integrity Forum has become one of the leading public fora on integrity and anti-corruption worldwide, bringing together relevant policy communities as well as the private ...

Imports of counterfeit and pirated goods are worth nearly half a trillion dollars a year, or around 2.5% of global imports, with US, Italian and French brands the hardest hit and m...

In September 2015, leaders of 193 countries agreed on a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to guide global action over the next 15 years. Set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustai...

Data protection frameworks must be compatible with international data flows for developing countries to benefit from the global digital economy National and regional legal framewo...

With billions of lives hanging in the balance, the next phase of development depended on the international community’s commitment to build on recent multilateral agreements and p...

During the recent State of the Africa Region, World Bank Vice President Makhtar Diop cited reforms as key to reigniting growth and helping African countries achieve structural tran...

The selection: Monday, 18 April 2016 Today, in Gaborone: President Jacob Zuma visits Botswana, then Namibia and Swaziland, on SACU issues Today, in Mauritius: seminar on WTO Agre...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trade Out of Poverty is undertaking an inquiry into the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative (AFTi), which was launched by the Prime Minister fi...

Government ministers from around the world confronted the refugee crisis, a slowing economy, and other global challenges at the 2016 World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings. ...

The dramatic decline in commodity prices combined with severe drought conditions and rising insecurity has hit many countries hard, African finance ministers said during the IMF-Wo...

Countries will need to spend resources better – by improving efficiency and building capacities – in order to support high-quality infrastructure projects that can achieve sign...

Least developed countries (LDCs) have very high trade-to-GDP ratios, reflecting the fact that they are heavily dependent on trade. Over the past few decades, they have also embarke...

Uganda will take its oil to the market through Tanzania’s Tanga port, leaving Kenya to build its own pipeline to Lamu, if the positions taken at the just-ended talks in Ka...

The world’s financial leaders called for a forceful and balanced policy mix – a three-pronged approach of structural reforms together with fiscal and monetary policy – to lif...