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Multi-year Expert Meeting on Investment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Productive Capacity-building and Sustainable Development, fourth session The meeting will discuss poli...

Marking the end of the two-day United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum, the President of the 54-member body told hundreds of youth leaders that the event ex...

From February 7-11, 2016, the African Development Bank (AfDB) will join Ministers of Mining from 16 African countries, industry leaders and an estimated 7,000 participants in Cape ...

The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) is the annual meeting of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). It is held to define and monitor the implementati...

The selection: Tuesday, 2 February 2016 China-Africa trade: 2015 flows reflect commodity punch (Standard Bank) What is now unambiguously clear, however, given both the reduction ...

As expected, African exports to China down 42% in value Recently announced trade data by China’s customs office reflects our expectations for the harm in terms of the value of A...

In times of weak growth and limited fiscal resources government policies that promote greater domestic competition and improve the regulatory environment could lift growth and supp...

2016 Budget Speech by Honourable O.K. Matambo, Minister of Finance and Development Planning, delivered to the National Assembly on 1st February 2016 I. INTRODUCTION Madam Speaker...

Addis Ababa, 29 January 2016 Today, on behalf of the NEPAD Agency, I have had the privilege to address a speech to the 34th NEPAD HSGOC in Addis Ababa. I have presented some ...

The 26th African Union Summit was an opportunity for African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina to share his vision for the Bank and the continent in the coming years.&nbs...

Keeping the world below the 2 degrees Celsius pathway presents a US$12.1 trillion investment opportunity over the next 25 years, a new analysis states. The report Mapping the...

Washington, D.C., 28 January 2016 Mr. Ambassador, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee: It is a great pleasure to appear today for this public hearing on the topic of trad...

This document contains information provided by SADC at the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee meeting of 4-6 November 2015 under Agenda Item 4 (Update by Observers). Elim...

The selection: Monday, 1 February 2016 Today, in Gaborone: Botswana's 2016 Budget Speech. Twitter updates: @BWGovernment Today, in Addis: the US-Africa Business Summit. Twitter u...

The Governor of the Bank of Botswana, Ms. Linah Mohohlo, and the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Mr. Min Zhu, hosted on 29 January 2016 in Gaborone, Bo...

Why a political economy study of regional organisations in Africa? Regional cooperation and regional integration are deemed vital to tackle development challenges that cannot be s...

Less than two months after 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, the global community is already seein...

Head of the African Union (AU) Presidential Infrastructure Championing Initiative, President Jacob Zuma, says reliable roads, railways and airports will help spur Africa's economic...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for December 2015 that recorded a trade surplus of R8.22 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswa...

The regional business community has criticised the EAC Elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade Bill 2015, saying it needs extensive changes in order to be effective. The...