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With gross domestic product increases of at least fivefold since 2000, Africa’s growth story has been the good news narrative of recent years. As if little could derail the rise...

Large infrastructure gaps, climate change, high speed of urbanization, and a youthful and rapidly growing population will influence the future pace of growth Most African countrie...

“We must light up and power Africa – as a Bank we will launch a new deal on energy for Africa” Former Nigerian Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina formally assumed office ...

Africa-focused economists caught off-guard on China weakness. Disappointing growth in Africa’s two biggest economies has highlighted the role of China in the expansion of recent...

In his speech in Costa Rica during his current official visit to Central America, WTO Director General, Roberto Azevêdo, talked about the importance of the early ratification of t...

The selection: Tuesday, 1 September Donald Kaberuka, AfDB President 2005-2015 (AfDB) Sovereign wealth funds can ease Africa risks, new AfDB head says (Bloomberg) Africa rising: ...

Is it possible that Michael Froman can succeed where both Leonardo DiCaprio and David Beckham have not? Maybe – if the job is saving the rhino, whose pop...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for July 2015 that recorded a trade deficit of R0.40 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswana, ...

Trade between China and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been asymmetric and characterised by China’s importing mainly mining and other extraction products from SSA, and the lat...

ACP countries were required for the first time to negotiate reciprocal, though asymmetric trade agreements, with a major – and developed – trading partner, the EU, giving birth...

Strong regional economic communities (RECs) are the key to Africa’s long term goal of creating a vibrant, united and prosperous continent. South Africa’s High Commissioner to ...

There is no one ‘big’ answer to how growth can be generated; instead we must break down the question, piece-by-piece, in search of the many smaller answers that together can pr...

With just weeks left to the signing of the new United Nations development goals, Kenya is coming up with new data collection and dissemination systems that could prove critical in ...

Open Data – data that is freely available online for anyone to use and republish for any purpose – is becoming increasingly important in today’s development agenda driven by ...

Angola defended dialogue and consultation between policy makers and technicians of the financial and monetary sectors of the African States at a meeting of regional finance ministe...

Intra-African trade increased by 50 per cent to $61 billion between 2010 and 2013, according to recent data released by the African Development Bank. The rise is attributed ...

Even as recent trade wars in the East African Community have mostly featured Kenya and Uganda over sugar exports, Kampala has for the past two months been locked in a dispute with ...

Leaders of African countries and China have vowed to enhance exchanges. Non-governmental organizations on both sides will boost people to people relations at different levels. The...

The selection: Friday, 28 August Raising voices for women cross border traders in West Africa: report (WCBT) The “Raising Voices for Women Cross Border Traders in West Africa P...

How the depreciating yuan and plummeting global commodity prices threaten to undermine investment in African people and businesses On August 24th, or what is now being referred to...