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The world’s biggest donors agreed on Friday to expand the definition of development aid to include limited forms of counter-terrorism measures and military activities or training...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el Sisi is calling on African leaders to invest in education so that the continent’s peoples can acquire the skills to contribute to the region’s...

Women in typically male sectors earn as much as their male peers and three times more than other women, according to a study in Uganda. Betty Ajio has made a living for the pa...

Creating successful 21st-century economies requires robust government revenues and an international tax system that works for everybody, said IMF Chief Christine Lagarde at the Ara...

East African countries are dragging their feet on tax harmonisation because of concerns about tax sovereignty, failure to agree on a common excise policy, fear of losing revenue,...

Several big international funds, including the U.N. Green Climate Fund, are trying to dole out billions of dollars to countries and communities to help them tackle climate change b...

His Highness the Aga Khan on Sunday, 21 February extolled Africa’s resilience, economic progress and new willingness to accept diversity. “What I see emerging today is a ...

The selection: Friday, 19 February 2016 Featured tweet, by Dr Chris Kiptoo (Kenya's Trade PS): 'Our maiden mission on economic diplomacy to [Washington] DC to lobby to reduce impa...

To cushion the economy against volatility of exchange rate markets, Rwanda has teamed up with other countries in the East African region to allow the use of local currencies across...

This report is an analysis of the Nigerian economy over the 2010 through 2015 periods with particular focus on the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, Inflation, and Merchandise Tra...

It might not have made the leading global headlines but, three weeks ago, there was a significant new development in global governance of trade and foreign investment. In Beij...

The rise in income inequality combined with lagging shared prosperity indicators have adverse impacts on relative poverty in Mauritius, says a World Bank report launched on 18 Febr...

Energy underpins every aspect of economic development. The world acknowledged that by adopting a dedicated UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) that aims to ensure access to aff...

Against a backdrop of new reports that show the number of refugees entering Europe has continued to skyrocket, senior government officials attending the final day of the Internatio...

Minimal enforcement of anti-corruption laws coupled with the private sector’s lack of exposure to international anti-corruption norms allows corruption to thrive in Mozambique’...

The 1st Meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum is scheduled to take place from Monday 22 to Saturday 27 February 2016 at the AU Headquarters in Addis-Aba...

Kenya is considering moving its crude oil to Mombasa by road and railway as President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration races to hit export markets before the General Election se...

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo ended his official trip to West Africa on 18 February 2016 with a visit to Dakar, Senegal. He met with President Macky Sall to discuss how the...

Achieving strong growth in the global economy remains elusive, with only a modest recovery in advanced economies and slower activity in emerging markets, according to the OECD’s ...

The selection: Thursday, 18 February 2016 Important trade and regional integration policy pointers: From the African Union’s Trade and Industry department: the 1st meeting of t...