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Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario has refused to sign on behalf of his country the agreement setting up a tripartite free trade area (FTA) involving African thr...

A review of budgetary spend across East Africa countries from previous years shows that the infrastructure sector continues to be accorded priority due to its contribution to eco...

Developing countries face a series of tough challenges in 2015, including the looming prospect of higher borrowing costs as they adapt to a new era of low prices for oil and other ...

The selection: Thursday, 11 June @Francismangeni: 15 countries have just signed the Agreement establishing the Tripartite Free Trade Area, and 23 have signed the Declaration&...

The Tripartite initiative between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), the East African Community (EAC) and SADC is rooted in the AU’s Lagos Plan of Action...

PREAMBLE WE, the Heads of State and Government or duly Authorised Representatives of, the Member States of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Partner ...

Vision: TOWARDS A SINGLE MARKET Theme: Deepening COMESA-EAC-SADC Integration   1. The Heads of State and Government of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (CO...

Statement by Mr Sindiso Ngwenya, Secretary General of COMESA and Chairman of the Tripartite Task Force to the 3rd COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Summit in Sharma el Sheikh, Egypt which...

The selection: Wednesday, 10 June Informal trade ministerial: briefing on Tenth WTO Ministerial by Kenya's foreign minister Amina Mohamed (WTO) I hope you can understand Afr...

Speech by Amb. Amina C. Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary, Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, during the Informal Meeting of WTO Trade Ministers on the M...

Ambassadors, trade negotiators, policymakers, and national and international services regulators and experts concluded the third session of the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Trade, ...

99% of imports from fast-growing Ethiopia pass through its neighbour, while Djibouti is nursing geopolitical ambitions. The leaders of Djibouti and Ethiopia will oversee the compl...

Statement of the Chairperson of the AU Commission, delivered by HE Mrs Fatima Acyl, Commissioner of Trade and Industry, to the Gender Is My Agenda Pre-Summit Conference: 8-9 June 2...

Implementing the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) could reduce worldwide trade costs by anywhere from 12.5% to 17.5%, according to new OECD analysi...

The selection: Tuesday, 9 June Dangote and the changing African industrial landscape (ThisDay)   The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote's decision to inject a fresh...

Think Ahead. Act Together. We, the leaders of the G7, met in Elmau for our annual Summit on 7 and 8 June 2015. Guided by our shared values and principles, we are determined to wor...

Over the past decade, foreign direct investment (FDI), in terms of stock, tripled in least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing States (SIDS), and quadrupled in l...

Despite the presence of ‘outreach guests’ from Africa at the G7 summit in Bavaria, relations between Africa and Europe can be acrimonious. Kenyans accused the EU of using ‘bl...

The Chinese government has reportedly expressed readiness to bankroll the proposed East African standard gauge railway (SGR) but has asked that partners on the multi-billion Northe...

“Africa needs to adopt policies to transform its natural resources into human capital and better living standards for its citizens and learn from the existing good practices on t...