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The COMESA Virtual Trade Facilitation System (CVTFS) has been launched in DR Congo. Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya and the Deputy Director-General of the Department of Customs a...

The selection: Tuesday, 7 July Featured tweets: @Francismangeni: There are no similarities between the Greek crisis and regional integration in Africa now, but important lessons&...

In its assessment of the European Union’s trade policy, the WTO Secretariat pays tribute to the critical role played by the EU in the Organization. It highlights the EU’s remar...

The BRICS countries may sign an agreement on economic integration in the next 5 years, says Russia’s Deputy Economic Development Minister Alexei Likhachev. Russia will offer a ...

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) galvanized the world to produce the most successful anti-poverty movement in history, helped lift more than one billion peopl...

It is a well-known fact that EU trade policy is a significant tool for development policy. Indeed, the EU has a long tradition of granting preferential access into its market for e...

The slowdown in productivity over the past decade has added to concerns about the long-term economic outlook. But new OECD research shows that policy reforms can revive the diffusi...

The selection: Monday, 6 July SADC's Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena Tax, has joined Twitter: follow her on @DrTaxs EAC: 3rd Emergency Summit on Burundi takes place today in D...

In one of the side events organized in the framework of the 5th Global Review of Aid for Trade, Mr. Stephen Karingi, Director of ECA’s Regional Integration and Trade Divisio...

United Nations member States are meeting from 6-10 July 2015 in Geneva to reaffirm the validity of the only multilateral instrument adopted by the UN General Assembly in the area o...

The Seychelles archipelago of 90,000 people has been accepted into an exclusive club of 83 nations on the World Bank’s ‘high income’ list. The Seychelles, together with...

Trade leaders focus on the new, more results-based phase of the EIF and the role of trade in services in global trade on day two of the event. Trade-led development of least devel...

The Appellate Body issued on 3 July 2015 its Annual Report for 2014. The Report includes information about appeals filed by WTO members, the key findings of reports circulated in 2...

Two border posts in Kenya and Tanzania are to be officially launched in August leading to combined operations of relevant government agencies and faster flow of goods between the t...

The selection: Friday, 3 July Today, in Addis: The future of disaster risk reduction and resilience in Africa (Common Africa Platform) Next week in Addis: The impact of illi...

Over the past several years, an increasingly strong voice has risen in China calling for the reform of its foreign aid policies and systems. In response to this voice, the Ministry...

An approach focusing on inclusive politics, effective governance, and fiscal health seems to offer a viable route to overcome fragility in sub-Saharan Africa, an IMF staff rep...

WTO members must do more to bring down excessively high trade costs, and there are some “clear and immediate actions within reach” which can contribute to achieving this, Direc...

In 2002, the global community came together in Monterrey, Mexico, to address key financial issues affecting global development. The International Conference on Financing for Develo...

An Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting is being organized by the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) and the Macroeconomic Policy Division (MPD) to review the Study on The Impa...