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With Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) growth rate forecast to be above that of the global average in 2016, the fundamentals for improved growth and sustained development are still in p...

Infrastructure Africa 2016 has partnered with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to focus on Africa’s regional gender equality within the infrastructure space Africa needs US$9...

The selection: Monday, 14 March 2016 Starting today: three conferences Northern, Central Corridor workshop on sustainable freight transport and finance: The workshop aims to rais...

Statement by SADC Executive Secretary, H.E. Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax, on the occasion of the Meeting of the SADC Council of Ministers in Gaborone, 14 March 2016 A...

The 16th Meeting of the Ministerial Task Force on Regional Economic Integration took place on Sunday, 13 March 2016 in Gaborone. The main objective of the meeting was to receive p...

Visa Inc. has released the results of a new 2016 study conducted by Moody’s Analytics that analyzed the impact of electronic payments on economic growth across 70 countries betwe...

WTO members confirmed in a regular meeting of the Agriculture Committee on 9 March that they will monitor the implementation of the Nairobi decision to abolish export subsidies dur...

Poverty across the continent may be lower than what current estimates suggest, though the number of people living in extreme poverty has grown substantially since 1990, according t...

A two-day meeting looking into the aviation and tourism industries in Africa opened in Addis Ababa Thursday with the Economic Commission for Africa’s Deputy Executive Secretary M...

SADC Committee of Ministers of Finance and Investment met on Saturday, 12 March 2016 in Gaborone, Botswana. The main objective of this meeting was to consider the outcome of the as...

Zimbabwe, like many African countries, faces an ongoing struggle to secure fair compensation for its mineral wealth. The question of how to maximise government revenues from the mi...

Regional Economic Communities (RECs) from the African continent led by the African Union and other strategic continental institutions have concluded talks on the 10 year implementa...

The selection: Friday, 11 March 2016 Convened today: In Nairobi: an export strategy development meeting for Kenya. For updates follow @IndustryKE, @ExportsKenya, @IndustryKE, @Ad...

As the dust from the Tenth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya settles and delegates resume their discussions in Geneva, this piece reviews some of the key MC10 outco...

The Africa Training Institute (ATI), the IMF, and the Banque de France jointly organized a high-level seminar at the ATI in Mauritius on March 7-8, 2016. Over 30 high-level policym...

Negotiators adopt Procedural Rules for the CFTA Trade Negotiating Forum It is imperative that African negotiators remain on course as they push for a single market for goods and s...

The Trade Directorate at the ECOWAS Commission is in the process of formulating an ECOWAS Regional Strategy for engagement with other partners in the Continental Free Trade Area (C...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the World Bank Group announced on 10 March 2016 the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (...

WTO members considered the way forward in agriculture talks at the first informal meeting of agriculture negotiations after the WTO Nairobi Ministerial Conference on 8 March. Membe...

Although the global trade landscape is continuously changing, a connection between Commonwealth countries makes a difference from a trade perspective. The global trade landscape i...