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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) presented its New Deal on Energy for Africa, and launche...

Members of African Union (AU) Executive Council converged in the Tigray region of Mekelle, on 24 January 2016, within the framework of their third Ministerial Retreat, holding unde...

The 31st Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) Ordinary Session took place from 21 to 23 January 2016 at the headquarters of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, in the ...

Liberalization of the telecommunications sector is progressing across Africa. One of the most important benefits of this trend is that it will make value-added services, particular...

FAO urges broader adoption of its “Save and Grow” paradigm for sustainable agriculture A new FAO book takes a close look at how the world’s major cereals maize, ri...

Africa’s biggest economies are taking opposite approaches on monetary policy as they struggle to cope with collapsing commodity prices and a slump in investor confidence. South ...

The pain from the rout in global commodity prices is sweeping through nations from Brazil to South Africa. The biggest beneficiary? Arguably it’s China, the nation often bla...

Dubai Port World plans to construct a $40 million inland container depot on a 30-hectare plot of land in Masaka, a suburb east of Kigali city, as Rwanda seeks to become a regiona...

The selection: Friday, 22 January 2016 Next week's African trade and development policy debates: Tripartite Private Sector Dialogue on Rules of Origin (28-29 January), East Africa...

Experts launch bid to strenghten global trade at Davos The World Economic Forum and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development on Thursday, 21 January 2016 relea...

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 SAIIA hosted the launch of the World Bank publication, ‘Factory Southern Africa? SACU in Global Value Chains’. The publication is the result o...

Whether it’s turning promises on climate change into action, rebuilding trust in the financial system, or connecting the world to the internet, the World Economic Forum has sin...

While adequate food and clean water remain daily challenges for millions of Africans, poverty at the household level – “lived poverty” – has declined in two-thirds of count...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday announced the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to provide leadership and mobilize co...

Cash could become history within a decade, thanks to new financial instruments, including virtual currencies, some of the world's leading bankers said during the World Economic For...

Various city representatives gathered for a special breakout session during the recent Understanding Risk & Finance Conference to discuss resilience, the challenges and opportu...

The selection: Thursday, 21 January 2016 Starting today, in Addis: 31st Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (AU) The PRC will prepare the agenda of the AU...

That the first decade of the 2000s was Africa’s most economically successful period since the beginning of official statistics has been amply voiced. Between 2000 and 2010, sub-S...

Many policy makers and corporate chieftains flocking to a village in the Swiss Alps now say that the rosy notion of a world powered by emerging-market growth needs to be reconsider...

Speaking at the Global Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the world’s business community to play its ful...