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The 5th Meeting of the Continental Task Force (CTF) on the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) at the Experts level, commenced on 5 November 2015 in Abuja, Nigeria. The meeting was ...

Economic transformation is increasingly believed to be the mechanism to make trade work for poverty reduction and development in Africa. This paper argues that while transformatio...

Statement by Ambassador Marc Vanheukelens, Geneva, 4 November 2015 I would like to extend a warm welcome to the SACU Delegation, led by Ms. Niki Kruger as the Head of Delegat...

COMESA and the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States have agreed on the need to take common positions on emerging issues related to the EU-ACP co-...

Cecilia Malmström, EU Trade Commissioner, visited Lagos, Nigeria on 5 November 2015, where she spoke at the EU-Nigeria Business Forum and meeting with government, business and civ...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) officials have lauded Rwandan cross-border transporters for embracing the yellow card scheme, noting that it has helped l...

The selection: Thursday, 5 November In Kinshasa, the curtain falls on 10th African Economic Conference (AfDB) "The state should play a critical role in the transformation of econ...

About 30 finance ministers from across the world have confirmed attendance of the Development Co-operation Forum high-level symposium in Kampala. It is expected to contribute to...

The sixth edition of UNIDO’s Least Developed Countries’ (LDC) Ministerial Conference will be held in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, from 26 to 27 N...

“Major economic progress is possible in Africa and can lead to improvement in the standard of living but we must work on structural transformation so that Africans can benefit fr...

This year’s Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa: Promise & Performance highlights the significant progress on the part of African governments and their inter...

Leaving no one behind in the development agenda will require taking bold steps by African governments including strengthening the role of state in economic transformation to addres...

The one-day workshop for the validation of the report on banking services and Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) Consultation ended on 30 October 2015 in Abuja, Nigeria. The objec...

Least developed countries (LDCs) welcomed on 2 November what they said were real efforts by members of the WTO to implement a pledge to provide LDC services and service suppliers w...

Speaking at an event marking the 20th anniversary of the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said that the work in this area “often goe...

The selection: Wednesday, 4 November Underway, in Geneva: the SACU trade policy review (WTO) As of end 2014, South Africa (on behalf of SACU) maintained definitive anti-dumping m...

Senior Trade Officials from the Governments of the five Member States of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Executive Secretary of SACU, Ms Paulina Elago, gathered i...

At a meeting of all WTO members in Geneva on 3 November, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo presented a suggested process to develop a Ministerial Declaration for the WTO’s 10th M...

Government has identified a total of N$4 billion of internal savings for the 2015/16 financial during the Mid-Year Budget Review process. These funds will now be relocated to urgen...

South Africa has addressed the technical issues relating to market access of United States agricultural products raised during the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) review ...