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This report has been prepared for the Formal Meeting of the World Trade Organisation Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures, 16-17 March 2016. AUC SPS RELATED-ACTI...

This report has been prepared for the Formal Meeting of the World Trade Organisation Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures, 16-17 March 2016. Workshop on Food Saf...

The selection: Tuesday, 8 March 2016 Concluding today, in Addis: a learning and validation workshop for the second edition of the OSBP Sourcebook. Partners include the AU, Nepad A...

Since 2005, services exports in Kenya have accounted for over 50% of the increase in total exports, and are poised to overtake goods exports, says a new World Bank report launched ...

This report presents the contribution of FAO to the annual monitoring exercise of the WTO Committee on Agriculture (CoA). The report draws in large part on the latest issues of the...

Preamble We, the private sector of the East African Community, have developed this Code of Conduct for Business in the East African Community together with its Rules & Procedu...

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2016, the Office of the African Development Bank’s Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, has launched a rep...

Sustainable development will depend on better gender equality. Yet, African women continue to face persistent challenges to get decent jobs. This requires a continental effort and ...

A financially inclusive ecosystem that takes on board all financial service providers will enhance the regional integration agenda espoused by the Common Market for Eastern and Sou...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday, 7 March announced that timely agricultural assistance for the upcoming rainy season is essential to help the d...

The 4th Annual Secretary General’s Forum for Private Sector, Civil Society and Other Interest Groups was held from 3rd to 4th March 2016 in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanz...

New ILO report highlights the enormous challenges women continue to face in finding and keeping decent jobs around the world. Despite some modest gains in some regions in the worl...

Target 10a of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted as part of the 2030 Agenda by the United Nations last year provides that “the principle of special and differential...

On December 12, 2015, 188 countries accounting for 98% of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions committed themselves to controlling emissions under a new ‘bottom up’ approach through...

The selection: Monday, 7 March 2016 Starting today, in Dar es Salaam: East African Legislative Assembly sitting, 7-18 March. Twitter updates: @EA_Bunge Later this week, in Lusaka...

The COMESA Council of Ministers has urged member States that have not signed the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) Agreement to do so and those that have signed to start the ratifi...

The services sector contributes almost half of the African continent’s economic output, and it has been growing at about twice the world’s average, signifying its transformativ...

The Economic Commission for Africa (Office for North Africa) concluded, Friday 4 March 2016 in Rabat, its 31st Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE). During this four day me...

African countries need to reinvigorate efforts to diversify their economies in the wake of plummeting global commodity prices which have weakened local currencies across the contin...

Rwandan financial exclusion has dropped by 17 percentage points from 28.1% in 2012 to 11% in 2015/16, however the percentage of banked adults increased from 23% in 2012 to 26% in 2...