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In his report to the General Council on 24 February as chair of the Trade Negotiations Committee, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo urged WTO members to “deepen their dialogue wi...

Against the backdrop of the latest WTO ministerial meeting can the multilateral trading system still deliver for the new UN sustainable development agenda? Commentary on the outco...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with its presence in more than 170 poor and vulnerable countries, must rise to the challenge of advancing a “big, new, more compl...

African energy stakeholders met at a 2-day workshop in the margins of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy meeting of the “Reference Group on Infrastructure”, to develop cooperation at...

A landmark universal emissions-cutting deal offers both hope and challenges as stakeholders move to implementation. In a historic move, parties to the UN Framework Convention...

The selection: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 SADC Council of Ministers' meeting, 14-15 March: briefing note African Economic Platform: inaugural meeting (14-16 April, Mauritius) E...

The Kenyan government’s approval of the development of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Dongo Kundu, Mombasa, expected to boost job creation and regional trade, has been welcomed...

Successes and challenges The small middle-income countries (SMICs) in Africa represent a successful group that has experienced solid economic growth and sustained improvements acr...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) played a key role in the First International Conference on the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on February 3...

The flow of goods on the Mombasa-Malaba corridor is set to ease further after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) joined the Comesa free trade area (FTA), signalling intention t...

African countries have held fresh talks to drive forward their implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a global agreement that is part of wider efforts ...

Advanced biofuels made from non-food biomass, also known second-generation biofuels, have become a commercial reality, a new UNCTAD report concludes. Advanced biofuels made from n...

The selection: Tuesday, 23 February 2016 Continental Free Trade Area capacity building workshop: meeting updates (AU) Trade between the United States and AGOA countries continue...

Total trade between the United States and countries supported under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) showed another decrease in 2015, according to data ...

Top fishery officials are gathering in Morocco this week to discuss sustainable trade practices in a $144 billion industry that provides developing countries with more export reven...

Trade flow between Burkina Faso to Accra is impeded by at least 54 police and Customs checkpoints, well as unofficial impediments which combine to hamper the smooth flow of trade b...

The two-day capacity building and information sharing workshop for Member States and other Stakeholders ahead of the 1st Meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Foru...

The selection: Monday, 22 February 2016 Profiled research report: Outlook for the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (IFPRI) The study’s estimates find positive but very li...

Addressing billions of illicit financial outflows from Africa is imperative as the continent needs domestic resources for its development, said the former President of South Africa...

IOA’s Africa Country Benchmark Report (ACBR) assesses African country performance from a holistic perspective, with the primary objective of providing readers with an all-encompa...