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Most people probably don’t think of Kenya as an innovation and technology hub, but in 2007 it became the launching pad for M-Pesa, a transformative mobile phone-based platform fo...

Joint submission by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the Stop Stock Outs Project (SSP) on the out-of-cy...

When the final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was released recently, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the campaign as the “most successful anti-pover...

African people, both on the African continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history or heritage, but a common destiny. This sense of interconnected pasts and futur...

The selection: Thursday, 13 August Strengthening citizen participation on matters affecting regional integration in Sub-Saharan Africa (NANGO) The SADC Treaty Article 16A provide...

CUTS-Nairobi held project inception meetings under ‘Integrating the Voice of CSOs in Regional Integration Process in Eastern and Southern Africa’ (IVORI-ESA) project in Nairobi...

Opening remarks of the ARSO President at the 52nd ARSO Council Meeting, 10-11 August 2015, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme “The rol...

Endemic poverty and high levels of unemployment are the greatest challenges facing Africa due to widespread corruption and illicit financial flows, says Southern Africa Trade Union...

South Africa must open its markets to US poultry or risk losing its benefits from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the president of the US’ National Chicken Council...

The COMESA Treaty envisages a fully integrated, internationally competitive regional community within which goods, services, capital and labour are free to move across national bor...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans not to scoff at the government’s close relationship with China because China was bound to be the biggest economy in ...

All Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states except Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa will this agricultural season experience food deficit due to poor rain...

On June 10, 2015, at the 25th African Union Summit in Cairo, Egypt, African leaders signed the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (TFTA). Prior to its signing, the agreement had been ...

The selection: Wednesday, 12 August First Annual Southern Africa Business Forum: Savuti Declaration The Southern Africa Business Forum proposes [inter alia] the following as a wa...

The Savuti Declaration details the findings of the Southern Africa Business Forum and commitment of the private sector to act towards regional economic integration in the...

Kenya is set to cede regulation of its sugar industry to a regional agency in the latest bid to end a long running market access war with Uganda. The joint agency, described by ...

After missing the 2010 deadline, the South African Development Community (SADC) will now negotiate a new target date for the transformation of the organisation into a Customs Union...

Egypt’s Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade is looking to double its exports of agricultural crops and is looking to African markets to realise this goal. Through free trade ...

Document prepared for the sixty-second session of the Trade and Development Board, to be held on 14 to 25 September 2015 in Geneva The present document summarizes the main aspects...

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says government has embarked on a mission to take the country’s industrialisation to the next level by ensuring that the Industr...