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Banking supervisors from countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have come together at the Eden Bleu Hotel in Seychelles for their 2016 steering and sub-comm...

The selection: Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Today's 17th Ordinary EAC Heads of State Summit: updates Open session proceedings can be followed live The EABC Code of Conduct and Code o...

This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2015 annual survey of mining and exploration companies. The survey is an attempt to assess how mineral endowments and p...

Speaking on 1 March at a forum aimed to end extreme poverty by 2030 and promote shared sustainable prosperity, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson highlighted that...

Uganda and Tanzania are planning to build a pipeline from Ugandan oil fields to the Tanzanian coast in a move that could strike a blow to Kenyan pipeline plans. Statements i...

The US government through the Office of the US Trade Representative is currently seized developing a report on “Deepening and Broadening the Trade and Investment Relationship bet...

The government has stressed the need to put in place a conducive environment for all businesses including small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) to enable them to conduct most of th...

The natural environment of eThekwini, the city also known as Durban, has been put under severe pressure due to rapid urbanization and climate change. These have contributed to the ...

The selection: Tuesday, 1 March 2016 For updates on today's EA Business Leaders Summit: follow ‏@EABCArusha, #EABusinessSummit Industrial policy in Africa: how to overcome the ...

The first meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum (CFTA-NF) laid the groundwork for upcoming substantive negotiations on Africa’s largest free trade area. Ne...

South Africa’s trade balance swings to a deficit R17.87 billion ($1 billion) in January from a revised R7.56 billion surplus in December, the national revenue agency said on Mond...

Namibia has raked in U$1.059 billion from trade exports to the European Union (EU) almost twice as much as the U$643 million worth of goods imported from the EU for the year 2014/2...

The East African Community officially launched the first One Stop Border Post (OSBP) in Holili/Taveta towns on the Kenya/Tanzania border on 27 February 2016. The facility was buil...

Ministerial Conference The Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Pla...

US Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), co-chairs of the Senate Chicken Caucus, have applauded the news that the first US poultry in more than 15 years has arr...

East African countries are positioning themselves to benefit from irrigation and hydroelectric power projects along the River Nile. Eleven of 30 of such projects, commission...

The promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is that well-managed migration and mobility will benefit migrants and their families as well as countries of or...

The domino effect of five central banks – Denmark, Switzerland, the European Central bank, the bank of Japan and more recently Sweden, slashing interest rates to sub-zero levels ...

The selection: Monday, 29 February 2016 Later today, in Pretoria: South Africa's January 2016 trade data will be published Later today, in London: launch of the 'Smart Industrial...

The world’s top economies declared on Saturday that they need to look beyond ultra-low interest rates and printing money to shake the global economy out of its torpor, while rene...