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The selection: Monday, 23 November Starting today, in Durban: Conflict-induced migration in Africa - high-level expert group meeting (OSAA) The main objective of the meeting is t...

Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continent On 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development agenda known as the 2030 Agenda ...

Newly-signed tripartite free trade area to bring together EAC, COMESA and SADC blocs For several years, experts from the three largest trading blocs in Africa – the Southern Afr...

Held annually since 2010, the Ibrahim Forum aims to tackle specific issues that are of critical importance to Africa, and require both committed leadership and governance. Bringin...

Marking the Africa Industrialization Day, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is calling for job creation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for women and youth to era...

The Second INTERPOL-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference has ended with a blueprint outlining future efforts to enhance e...

An opportunity to emphasize the link between climate and development As African leaders, climate change experts and scholars understand it, the climate change agreement currently ...

The minerals and metals mining sector must do a better job at making a positive impact on local economies. Around the world local communities worry that mining projects will conta...

The technical meeting of the African Union Commission (AUC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on the convergence of Mo...

Overview of issues, challenges and debates The global trade and investment architecture (GTIA) plays a critical role in shaping the organisation and structure of international com...

Trade and Sustainable Development: Options for Follow-up and Review Trade is reflected throughout the draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of June 2015 and the May 2015...

The selection: Friday, 20 November Made in Africa: some new thinking for Africa Industrialization Day (Brookings) Today Friday, November 20 marks yet another “Africa Industrial...

Members of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) gave their full support this week to helping Africa achieve its target of 300GW of power from renewable energy by 2030, su...

The EU has joined forces with Brazil and five other farm exporting countries to propose tighter WTO rules on export subsidies and similar measures, one month ahead of the global tr...

This trade-monitoring report reviews trade-related developments during the period from 16 October 2014 to 15 October 2015. It is submitted by the Director-General to assi...

This Friday, November 20 marks yet another “Africa Industrialization Day” by the United Nations. There have now been 25 such events, and they seem to have come and gone with re...

A new report packed with best practice climate policies from across the world was released on 18 November 2015 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...

Since my last Periodic Report on the Development Assistance Aspects of Cotton to the membership in October 2013, four Rounds of the Director-General’s Consultative Framework Mech...

Final Statement Preamble 1. Whereas the European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA), the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) ...

The selection: Thursday, 19 November China's investment in Africa falls 40% in H1: MOC (China Daily) China's investment in Africa collapsed in the first half of this year, but ma...