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Request for observer status by the African Organization for Standardization (ARSO) to the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade: Submission from Uganda The delegation ...

The selection: Monday, 26 October Starting today, in Cape Town: Current and future challenges for the multilateral trading system - perspectives from Southern Africa The event, 2...

The Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development in partnership with World Bank and manufacturing sector stakeholders have launched the Priority Manufacturing sector, v...

4th India Africa Trade Ministers’ Meeting held in New Delhi – Joint Statement Issued Minister for Commerce & Industry, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman has said that India sees Afri...

The adoption of an action plan and wide-ranging partnerships to transform African agriculture into viable agri-business were the main outcomes of the three-day high-level conf...

Energy specialists and policy makers will have a lot to talk about at the forthcoming Conference on climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA 5), according to the organizing c...

Kenya is rooting for discussions to reduce high tariffs that make trade in agriculture expensive during the coming World Trade Organization 10th Ministerial (WTO MC10) meeting in N...

Parliamentarians from 137 countries have committed to action aimed at tackling two of the most challenging issues facing the world today – migration and the protection of digital...

In a “timely and necessary” meeting on illicit financial flows and their impact on development in Africa, Oh Joon, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (...

The selection: Friday, 23 October ACP Declaration on the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference We re-affirm that the ACP Group of States will continue constructive engagement in the pu...

Preamble We, Ministers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States responsible for trade matters, meeting in Brussels from 19 to 21 October 2015 to, among other ...

An informal open-ended consultation on preferential rules of origin for LDCs held on 20 October reportedly examined a formal proposal on the subject from the LDC Group, in the cont...

Accountability, competitiveness and innovation key to making trade sustainable and inclusive The first day of the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) 2015, being held in Doha, Q...

The population in Africa is rapidly expanding, and by 2060 the region will hold an estimated 2.8 billion people. With the right policies and actions, countries in Sub-Saharan Afric...

Executive Summary Sourcing products and services from Africa is an option that makes sense to more and more firms, both international and African, each year. Though the spikes in ...

The recent economic trends and the challenges posed by the global crisis reinforce the importance of implementing strategies for development as opposed to leaving the economy to ma...

Xenophobia and regional economic integration are contradictory. Without the free flow of people, goods and services, there can never be regional integration or building a community...

The dynamic relationship between India and Africa is built on a shared future, common natural resources, similar demographics and large domestic markets. As both regions aim to...

The selection: Thursday, 22 October ECOWAS biometric ID cards due in 2016 (CitiFM) Ghana is spearheading the Economic Community of West African States’ plan to provide Biometri...

Govt will seek to push for early resumption of talks for proposed trade pacts with regional bodies in that continent India will play catch-up with China in attempts to reach out t...