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2015 index of perceived corruption, which ranked Somalia as the worst offender, says more than 6 billion people live in countries where corruption is rife More than 6 billion peop...

Further economic slowdown in major emerging economies could push commodity markets lower The World Bank is lowering its 2016 forecast for crude oil prices to $37 per barrel in its...

ILO Director-General warns of risks to the middle class growth experienced in BRICS countries. The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, has ...

The World Economic Forum brings together world leaders, corporate titans and other headline invitees for its annual blue chip meeting. So why are issues of corruption, tr...

On Monday, 25 January 2016, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker addressed U.S. and African business leaders at an event hosted by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and the United B...

“Emerging nations like Guinea can make better choices about how they develop. We don’t need to repeat the mistakes of the West” - Alpha Condé, President of Guinea The&...

At a retreat of the AU Executive Council, Ibrahim Thiaw discussed fighting illegal trade in wildlife with African Foreign Ministers United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Dep...

The selection: Tuesday, 26 January 2016 2016 at a glance: event calendars from the UNECA, COMESA Business Council, China's G20 Presidency Forthcoming international conferences: R...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) unveiled today its fifth annual ICC G20 Business Scorecard, which rates G20 responsiveness to key business policy priorities. ...

An eventful year awaits southern Africa in 2016 as the region intensifies the implementation of key milestones on industrialisation, trade and infrastructure development, as well a...

Impacts will be with us for many decades, says WMO head The trend for increasingly extreme and frequent weather matching climate change forecasts has been put into stark perspecti...

Standard measures of poverty and inequality are calculated at the household level – assuming resources are pooled and shared equally among its members. The World Bank Group’s&n...

Statement by Mr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, to the Trade and Development Board Sixty-second Executive Session in Geneva, 25 January 2016 This first Executiv...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) hosted a planning meeting with a delegation from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Forum for A...

Last preparatory meeting of CITES Standing Committee in the run-up to CITES CoP17 in Johannesburg, September 2016 – the World Wildlife Conference With record numbers in att...

Multilateral development agencies from around the world have collaborated to produce the PPP Knowledge Lab, the first comprehensive online resource that pools the knowledge an...

The need for the sustainability of regional integration programmes supported by the COMESA Adjustment Facility has prompted the Secretariat to develop a CAF sustainability str...

The selection: Monday, 25 January 2016 Addis AU Summit updates: 31st Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee: closing statement, AU Ministerial Retreat of the ...

Digitalization threatens to fundamentally disrupt logistics but could also help the industry reduce its inefficiencies and shrink its environmental impact. Over the past two decad...

If the landmark Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a pact between donors and recipients, the 2030 Agenda must become the basis of a new social contract, United Nations S...