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The selection: Friday, 12 February 2016 Yesterday, two presidential speeches: South Africa: President Zuma's State of the Nation address China announced investments of $50bn of ...

World leaders must come together in 2016 to renew their commitments to humanity and unite to prevent and end crisis and reduce vulnerability, United Nations Secretary-General Ban K...

This report evaluates the impact of the current drought on the South African economy, on commercial and smallholder producers, and on consumers. Whilst the impact of the drought on...

As the global economy struggles to emerge from its chronic slow-growth stall, policymakers are increasingly focused on an energetic opportunity to help jump-sta...

The recent economic trends and the challenges posed by the global crisis reinforce the importance of implementing strategies for development as opposed to leaving the economy to ma...

Growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is revised downward to 2.6 % in 2015 and the short term prospects remain “cautiously pessimistic”, according to the latest iss...

For several years now, life has been a constant struggle for much of Burkina Faso’s rural agrarian population. A severe drought in 2011 scorched what were already arid lands. Cro...

In its latest policy brief, UNCTAD discusses key policy measures and instruments that the least developed countries and their development partners can mobilize to widen the financi...

The selection: Thursday, 11 February 2016 Tomorrow, in Luanda: the 6th Ordinary Summit of ICGLR Heads of State and Government will take place In April: the first substantive CFT...

Connecting Africa through Political Leadership Foreword by His Excellency, President Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa and PICI Chairperson Over the...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo convened a meeting of all WTO members on 10 February to discuss the future work of the organization. It was the first meeting of the full membersh...

Although most countries in Eastern Africa have experienced strong economic growth and are broadly improving the living standards of their citizens, national averages often mask une...

The inaugural Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF) Africa Summit was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2-3 February 2016 at the United Nations C...

We, the representatives of more than 350 members of civil society organisations; faith based organisations, Pan-African networks and organisations, labour movements, industry assoc...

The selection: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 Rich People Poor Countries: the rise of emerging-market tycoons and their mega firms (PIIE) In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Fre...

“There is an ebb and flow to life; there are highs and lows. There are sunny days and grey days, summers and winters. The 2016 Mining Indaba comes at a time when the mining indus...

President Barack Obama signed into law Monday a measure aimed at expanding electricity to millions of households in sub-Saharan Africa, a measure supporters say will save lives and...

The 20th session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of the Eastern Africa Office of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) organised in Nairobi from 8 to 11 F...

One of the largest regional conferences on the importance of data for better macroeconomic policies was concluded on 2 February 2016 in Accra, Ghana. Organized by the Government of...

Kenya is studying rules and conditions for joining China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as she looks to widen infrastructure financing space in a bid to narrow the yawnin...