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Document prepared for the sixty-second session of the Trade and Development Board, to be held on 14 to 25 September 2015 in Geneva Paragraph 18(d) of the Doha Mandate of the thirt...

The selection: Tuesday, 11 August SADC: Time to open up (Tutwa) To many, the convening of the Southern Africa Business Forum may not sound like much but it represents an importan...

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the East African region to harness its “shared identities” as the strongest asset to develop its economy. Addressing the Uga...

A total of $9.3 billion in ‘impact-investment’ funds have flowed into East Africa over the past five years, with almost half of that amount being disbursed in Kenya, according ...

The South African cabinet has approved the publishing of the Border Management Agency (BMA) Bill for public comment. The Bill seeks to establish a BMA that will balance secure cro...

Illicit trade is a global menace that seriously affects both the public and private sectors within the COMESA region and all other parts of the world. It undermines the concept of ...

The prohibition of the acceptance of foreign currency cash deposits by deposit money banks announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week will ultimately ring-fence the N...

The East Africa Community (EAC) member states are set to integrate all their custom systems into one platform in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda to enhance regional bon...

When Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa completes his one-year tenure as president of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly next month, among the th...

If, as has been observed, demography is destiny, this will be the African century. Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa are on the cusp of a demographic transition – the years w...

It has become a regular feature of policy statements in the minerals sector throughout much of Africa to exhort mining companies to “beneficiate” or “add value” to the mine...

The COMESA Business Council (CBC) working with the private sector has launched a technical capacity strengthening project to empower Small and Medium Entrepreneurs in standards and...

The US is proposing radical changes in Kenya’s port cargo handling procedures to help reduce illicit trade and lock out high-risk consignments. The US government wants Ken...

The New Development Bank (NDB) launched by the BRICS have been “welcomed by all”, South African President Jacob Zuma has asserted. The new lender is expected to strengthen the ...

The selection: Friday, 7 August On Monday: the Northern Corridor Transit Transport Coordination Authority Policy Organs will meet in Kinshasa. The impact of Free Trade Agreements...

Niger has become the twelve WTO member and the first LDC (Least developed country) to ratify the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Niger’s ambassador, Ado Elhadji Abou, pre...

In comments submitted on Wednesday night, the National Pork Producers Council asked the Obama administration to withdraw, or at least limit, preferential trade benefits for South A...

President Jacob Zuma says trade has increased by 70% between BRICS member countries over the past couple of years and that South Africa stands to benefit from the BRICS Development...

This Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) addresses two questions through a review of the literature on free trade agreements (FTAs) that gives particular attention to impact assessment...

As Egypt officially opened on Thursday its “New Suez Canal,” it is broadly believed that this project, conjoined with China’s Belt and Road initiatives, will inject strong im...