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Ghana is spearheading the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) plan to provide Biometric Identification Cards to the community’s citizens in 2016. This is to f...

The slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy has seen Chinese cross-border investment in Africa plunge. Beijing has invested just $568 million in greenfield projects and e...

A number of high level US investors are expected to attend the upcoming Kenya International Investment Conference (KIICO) on 23rd-25th November, 2015 in Nairobi, followin...

The selection: Wednesday, 21 October African, Caribbean and Pacific Ministers of Trade meeting yesterday in Brussels: selected updates Opening statement by Minister Joshua Setipa...

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has urged African countries to join hands in pushing for successful and favorable outcomes at the WTO Ministerial Conference – dub...

Delegates from across the globe are converging on Dakar, Senegal, for a landmark conference on agriculture that promises to yield one of the boldest initiatives ever taken on Afric...

Keynote address by Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza, Minister for East African Community Affairs (Rwanda), at the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) 2015, 20 October – Doha, Qatar...

Policymakers and business leaders meeting in Doha to discuss global trade, investment and development His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, Prime Ministe...

Emphasizing that “reliable and timely statistics and indicators are more important than ever,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 20 October urged all pa...

Opening statement by Hon. Joshua Setipa, Chairman of the ACP Ministers of Trade Meeting and Minister of Trade & Industry of Lesotho, delivered at the African, Caribbean an...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo attended an informal meeting of African Union trade ministers in Brussels on 20 October to discuss preparations for the WTO’s 10th Ministerial C...

In its latest commodity update, the World Bank is lowering its 2015 forecast for crude oil prices from $57 per barrel in its July report to $52 per barrel. The revis...

Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi stand between the region and a competition authority that was to kick off in July, after they failed to submit names of commissioners to sit on the boa...

The selection: Tuesday, 20 October Featured tweet, @AMB_A_Mohammed: African countries must closely coordinate with and give timely guidance to negotiators in Geneva (one of a seri...

Economic stagnation and lacklustre recovery from the global economic crisis had revealed dysfunction in international organizations and the need to reform unequal power structures,...

The Nairobi summit of the Northern Corridor Integration Project countries, of host countries Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan, discussed a range of issues regarding the imple...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are expanding their operations in response to growing food insec...

The United States vowed on Monday to press ahead with a review that could cut South Africa’s access to trade benefits after the country missed a key deadline for resuming US poul...

For the first time, an unprecedented alliance of Heads of State, city and state leaders, with the support of heads of leading companies, have joined forces to urge countries and co...

Tony Elumelu presented the following paper at a conference organised by Liberation newspapers for encouraging new thinking and perspectives about Africa at the Liberation Forum, he...