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The Nigerian president’s sudden, unexpected and seemingly unilateral decision to ban nearly 100 oil tankers from the country’s waters has sown confusion in the operations of Af...

The selection: Thursday, 6 August Sh850bn Suez Canal opens today (Business Daily) Thousands of regional dignitaries and millions of Egyptians gather Thursday as the country opens...

As new players from the emerging economies enter the aid arena, the thinking that underpins much development cooperation needs to change International development has reached a cr...

Governors and various stakeholders have welcomed the launch of policy guidelines for the drafting of County Revenue Laws saying these guidelines if well implemented would help faci...

Kenya has fallen behind Tanzania and Rwanda as the top investment destination in East Africa, dampening the country’s ambition to become a regional leader in tapping foreign dire...

The overall quality of government policies and institutions designed to spur development and reduce poverty in African countries remained steady in 2014, with the greatest progress...

The selection: Wednesday, 5 August Is the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report at odds with how business is done in the developing world? (Wall Street Journal) The Doing Bu...

Since the launch of the Tripartite Free Trade Area in June this year, a voluminous body of scholarly work has been generated by many tertiary institutions and by international bodi...

The World Bank is in the process of reviewing, updating and strengthening its environmental and social policies that serve to protect vulnerable people and the environment in World...

ICT can radically transform the market for financial products and services for poor Africans The linkages between digital financial services (DFS) and the development agenda in Af...

The chair of talks designed to liberalise environmental goods trade will compile and circulate a draft consensus list of products slated for tariff cuts in the coming weeks, trade ...

Nigeria must urgently reform the way it sells oil to prevent Africa’s biggest crude producer losing billions of dollars of revenue, according to a new report. The approach of th...

The ambitions of a young Ugandan entrepreneur to expand his coffee processing business will soon be within reach. East Africa’s accelerated integration process is opening up poss...

Southern Africa has taken its multi-billion-dollar infrastructure development plan to potential funders in China – a country that is now the leading investor in Africa. In the l...

The SADC Third Peer Review Panel meeting of Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors commenced in Bulawayo, Republic of Zimbabwe on 3 August 2015 to deliberate on key aspect...

The selection: Tuesday, 4 August Botswana to host SADC Summit: 7-18 August Southern African Business Forum: 11-12 August The 2015 SADC Peoples’ Summit: 15-16 August SADC: Thi...

Support and political will of African leaders is very critical in order to effectively promote regional integration but also allow capacity building institutions and development pa...

The Economic Commission for Africa has published its report on International Transport and Trade facilitation in North Africa. In this study, the ECA office for North Africa analys...

Surveillance of national trade policies is a fundamentally important activity running throughout the work of the WTO. At the centre of this work is the Trade Policy Review Mechanis...

Somalia should focus on strengthening the key building blocks for stability and growth as it recovers from more than two decades of civil war, the IMF says in its first review of t...