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The Heads of State of the Northern Corridor member states; Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda met on 6th June 2015 at Muyonyo Speke Resort for the 10th Northern Corridor Integration Projects...

The selection: Monday, 8 June TFTA: 'Speed up integration to stem illegal migration' (COMESA)   The African leadership will need to speed up the implementation of the inte...

The African leadership will need to speed up the implementation of the integration agenda as the continent urgently needs to create jobs for the over 60 percent of its population w...

Boosting agriculture, services and value chains is key to Africa’s competitiveness In Africa, economic growth has risen steadily for the past 15 years and rapid population growt...

South Africa’s “chicken war” with the US has been resolved, removing a barrier to the renewal of a key trade agreement. Restrictions on US poultry imports to South Africa had...

Next month Africa will take a bold step towards integration with the launch of negotiations for the Continental Free Trade Area (the CFTA). A trader in Ghana with dreams of breakin...

The opportunity to fund Africa’s infrastructure was huge and wise investors should move and get involved in financing this development, President Jacob Zuma said last week. “A...

OECD Ministers have endorsed updated guidelines to help national governments and regional groups create the right conditions to attract domestic and foreign investment. Ministers ...

The proposed new regional economic bloc, that would merge the East African Community, Southern African Development Community (SADC) and COMESA blocs, will only see Namibian cabinet...

Ministers and senior Government officials on 4 June rallied the international community in a Call to Action, capping off a three-day meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, which aimed to ...

The selection: Friday, 5 June Namibia: Cabinet seeking to finalize outstanding issues on TFTA before approval (New Era) The proposed new regional economic bloc, that would m...

The selection: Thursday, 4 June WEF Africa: updates from IOL Northern Corridor experts meet ahead of presidential summit (New Times) Senior officials and experts from ...

The 2015 Africa Attractiveness Survey conducted by Ernst and Young (EY) revealed that foreign direct investment (FDI) into Africa reached US$128bn, up 136 per cent in 2014. The nu...

Africa continues to grow at a moderately rapid pace, despite weaker global growth Africa entered the twenty-first century with promising economic prospects. Over the past decade, ...

Senior officials and experts from member states of the East African Community (EAC), yesterday, met in Kampala ahead of the 10th Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIP) Summi...

Illicit financial flows (IFFs), stemming from crime, corruption, and tax evasion, have an outsized impact on the world’s poorest countries, according to a new study released on 3...

The selection: Wednesday, 3 June The WEF Africa conference started this morning in Cape Town: some links  Africa faces mounting risks to keep rising growth record ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa kicks off in Cape Town today, giving South Africa an opportunity to make its investment case to an audience of global and African business ...

Africa was cheated out of US$11 billion in 2010 through just one of the tricks used by multinational companies to reduce tax bills, according to new Oxfam report, ‘Africa: Rising...

The Burundi Revenue authority (OBR) has recorded a 16 per cent tax decline for the last financial year. The unrest that has hit the country since April has only made things ...