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New Delhi to explore potential trade pacts with individual countries India’s proposal for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the African Union – made at the recent Indo-Africa ...

The selection: Tuesday, 8 December Key message from the AU-CFTA workshop: ‘Africa’s potential lies in trade in services’ (AU) Despite the success stories services exports i...

The Training Workshop on Trade in Services Negotiations for AU-CFTA Negotiators kicked off on Monday, 7 December 2015 and has been attended by H.E. Mr. Oumar Sarr, the Minister of ...

In his report to the General Council on 7 December about the potential outcomes of the Nairobi Ministerial Conference, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo urged WTO members to “sei...

From the opening of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), African leaders have made strong stands for their continent’s need for energy expansion, and the mi...

It is without doubt that African countries are proud of their economic achievements in the past decade. The blight on this 5-6 percent growth achieved during this time is the absen...

​Specific policies, targeted sectoral strategies and effective institutions to implement them are instrumental to meeting Madagascar’s development objectives, according to the ...

First report of 1 Gigaton Coalition finds potential for further reductions Initial analysis of almost 6,000 projects targeting renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing...

The selection: Monday, 7 December This week, in Dakar: training workshop on trade in services negotiations for AU-CFTA negotiators In spite of the task of negotiating and rule-ma...

Mechanisms to boost large-scale capital for climate action in cities set out in study by Alliance initiated by UN Secretary-General Proven innovative policies and mechanisms are u...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and African leaders rounded off a landmark summit in Johannesburg on Saturday with a unanimous consensus to upgrade China-Africa relations ba...

Johannesburg Declaration (Combined Version of Africa and China) We, the Heads of State, Government and Delegations of the People’s Republic of China and 50 African countr...

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Commitments from 10 countries announced at the Global Landscapes Forum African countries launched AFR100 (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative), a pan-African, cou...

MasterCard African Cities Growth Index assesses inclusive urbanization and growth potential of 74 African cities Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, is the larg...

WTO members meeting as the General Council agreed on 30 November on a draft ministerial decision aimed at addressing the challenges faced by small economies. This draft decision ha...

Africa has much to offer the world in the battle against climate change, but fellow leaders at the Paris climate talks must also be prepared to do their bit The term “glacial pa...

Remarks at the meeting hosted by the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN): Africa Pavilion at COP21, Paris, 6 December 2015 Your Excellen...

About 95.9% of all the reported Non-Tariff Barriers to regional trade in COMESA have been resolved since the introduction of the online system of reporting, monitoring and eliminat...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the full version of the 2015 Emissions Gap Report, which found that the world was around halfway toward the emissions c...