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With 14 million people facing hunger in southern Africa as the El Niño weather pattern, the worst in over three decades, exacerbates drought, the United Nations World Food Program...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday stressed the need for greater global cooperation against the devastating effects of climate change to avert disaster for the human race in the ...

The selection: Monday, 18 January 2016 Profiled conference alert: 2nd Annual Competition and Economic Regulation Conference (Lusaka, 11-12 March) Profiled conference report: Trad...

Dramatically scaling up renewables in the global energy mix by 2030 would increase GDP, social welfare and employment worldwide Achieving a 36 per cent share of renewable energy i...

Algeria and China on Sunday inked a 3.3-billion-U.S-dollar deal to build and exploit the new center transshipment port of Cherchell. The agreement was signed between Algeria’s T...

On 14-15 January 2016, the OECD hosted a Ministerial meeting on Labour and Employment, and a Policy Forum on the Future of Work. Ministers from more than 40 OECD and partner count...

Effective global partnerships, sufficient financing and close cooperation between Governments and the private sector will be indispensable to harness the evolving global innovation...

10.2 million food insecure after major crop failure, livestock losses due to El Niño The strongest El Niño weather episode in the last several decades has caused repeated crop f...

Highlighting that people around the world are living at an age of “mega-crises,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday welcomed the launch of a new r...

The selection: Friday, 15 January 2016 Two new, multi-year DFID-funded China-Africa trade research projects: Chinese national oil companies and the economic development of Africa...

More diverse financing sources can raise new opportunities but can also pose risks, said a joint IMF-World Bank report on public debt vulnerabilities in low-income countries. Whil...

Africa’s foremost start up portal, Disrupt Africa, on Tuesday, released a report, which revealed that African technology startups received direct investments to the tune of ...

Opening statement by Taffere Tesfachew, Acting Director, Division on Technology and Logistics; Director, Division on Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes, UNCTA...

The selection: Thursday, 14 January 2016 Two commentaries on US trade policy, by Ambassador Michael Froman: 2016: The State of Trade Since President Obama took office, the Unit...

While Digital Technologies Have Spread Fast Worldwide, Their Digital Dividends Have Not A new World Bank report says that while the internet, mobile phones and other digital techn...

The South African government is committed to intensifying efforts to expand international market access for its agricultural commodities, Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fishe...

The slump in oil prices that’s brought upheaval and cost-cutting to the traditional energy industry spared renewables such as solar and wind, which raked in a record $329.3 billi...

China’s imports from Africa fell nearly 40 percent last year, officials said Wednesday, as low commodity prices and slowing growth in the Asian giant hit trade. Imports from the...

What should countries do to accelerate progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda? The agenda, adopted by the world’s leaders in September is very c...

State-owned National Bank of Kenya (NBK) said its Chinese yuan clearing house which was launched in Nairobi last year will help to boost Sino-Kenya trade. NBK’s Managing Directo...