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Eastern Africa regional states should strengthen intra-regional trade and enact policies to reduce poverty among poor members of their societies to sustain economic growth. That w...

The Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) holds incredible potential for the African continent. Greater focus on communications will be required in order for that potential to be real...

Kenya is seeking ways to take advantage of the turnaround in exports which have risen faster than imports for the first time in more than five years. According to Financial ...

Only on the streets of cities like Cairo, Abuja or Tashkent can you gauge just how much pressure developing countries are under to ease controls on their currencies. Individu...

El Niño conditions have caused the lowest recorded rainfall between October and December across many regions of Southern Africa in at least 35 years, the United Nations World Food...

Africa’s biggest economies have been hammered by the collapse in commodity prices over the past 18 months but there are still investment bright spots to be found. In cities such...

African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina, outlined the Bank’s new development priorities and underscored the importance of partnerships during his first annual lunche...

The African Union Commission (AUC) launched the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) Compact with Private Sector Leaders and Government Officials during a High Level Dinner Dialogue, on Tues...

“In the next one year, we want to see more than Rwanda’s corporate market sourcing their products locally. This project is timely as it addresses the core gaps of our local ind...

The selection: Monday, 15 February 2016 Today in Johannesburg: UNCTAD joins SADC review of best approaches to take its Bilateral Investment Treaty template forward. Twitter update...

This article suggests key insights to strategically advance the Continental FTA negotiations. The CFTA will bring together 54 African countries with a combined population of m...

The East African region is likely to face stiff competition from Southern Africa countries after members of three trade blocs that merged last year agreed to disregard sensitive ...

The African Development Bank has launched the first Africa Visa Openness Index, which shows how Africa remains largely closed off to African travellers. On average Africans ne...

Despite substantive depreciation of the rand after the global financial crisis, South Africa’s export performance has been very weak. In a group of 20 emerging market peers, Sout...

Regional integration and cooperation is the way ahead in Africa, but the latest initiatives such as the TFTA and CFTA will face substantial challenges. Integrating in small groups,...

A new action plan aims to empower Lake Chad communities to adapt to the urgent development challenges exacerbated by climate change, and to consolidate Lake Chad’s contribution t...

Over the coming year, humanitarian partners should prepare for food insecurity levels and food insecure population numbers in southern Africa to be at their highest levels since th...

The resource sector has entered into a new phase. Prolonged downswings in commodity prices, fuelled by (i) the double effect of slower demand from emerging markets like C...

The number of think tanks per country doesn’t necessarily stack up with economic heft, growth rates, or demographic size in Africa. A Kenyan think tank, the Kenya Institute of P...

The African Economic Platform will be launched in Port-Louis, Mauritius, on 14-16 April 2016. Announced by the AU Commission Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, during the jus...