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Academics, researchers, tax administrators, students, tax practitioners, consultants and decision-makers on fiscal and tax policy in Africa will gather in Cape Town from 2 to 4 S...

The “Raising Voices for Women Cross Border Traders in West Africa Project” seeks to map women’s organisations in the ECOWAS sub-region and their potential to support the capa...

A new report on Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Africa has called for a policy overhaul in the mining sector for inclusive and active participation of women. The...

The office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG) and the Department for Agriculture and Agro-industry (OSAN) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a new report, “Econom...

The suspense over the much-awaited decision on another 10-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – often called the United States’ General Sy...

The selection: Thursday, 27 August Starting today, in Luanda: African Caucus of finance ministers, central bank governors The African Caucus Meeting is meant to seek a common gro...

Remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman at the Opening Ceremony of the 2015 U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (AGOA Forum) in Libreville...

From 27-28 August in Luanda, the Republic of Angola will host the Meeting of the Ministers of Finance and Governors of the Central African Banks, the African Caucus, with the aim o...

A week-long workshop, convened by UNCTAD and the African Union Commission, is underway to train services trade negotiators from Anglophone African countries on related negotiations...

The ClimDev Africa Special Fund (CDSF) launched its first project in Ethiopia on August 3 to help the country cope with, and build resilience to, climate change by e...

A better agreement on agricultural exports will be Kenya’s priority when the world converges in Nairobi for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit this December. In a m...

Kisumu has received a major boost in its bid to become a regional transport hub after President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged to revive its port in fresh efforts to expand trade with East...

The selection: Wednesday, 26 August Opposites attract? Bringing the trade and regulatory communities together (ICTSD) Where does all this take me? The WTO, its valiant efforts in...

“Most African countries have made a great deal of progress in general trade facilitation reforms but overall progress in the area of digitalization or paperless trade facilitatio...

A fresh U.S. trade pact could provide relief to African economies buffeted by the commodities slump but a failure to reform during the boom years has left many countries unable to ...

Business, government and labour have come together to discuss the hike of import duties on steel imports. These efforts are to protect the struggling steel sector. Government ...

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies has arrived in Libreville‚ Gabon‚ to attend the 14th African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum that is taking place from...

Though the industry is expanding 45,000qt of cotton was imported last fiscal year The UK government is funding a 15-year cotton strategy for Ethiopia with intent to have a new ins...

The pointed talking-up of China as an alternative to the West has been trendy in an Africa dazzled by Beijing’s flashing overtures, reminiscent of a man planning t...

The climate change agreement world leaders are expected to sign in December “has to take us to a less than 2 degree global warming path because that is the ultimate test of the w...