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Delegates tasked with hammering out an outcome document for a UN conference on development finance reviewed a revised draft during an informal session held last week in New York, c...

The BRICS development bank is expected to start operations around the end of this year and play a complementary role to existing global financial mechanisms. The bank, known as Ne...

The 47th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government has opened in Accra with a call on multinational countries to consider debt cancellation for the three W...

The selection: Wednesday, 20 May ICGLR Heads of State and Government: statement ECOWAS Council of Ministers: statement African Union: popular version of Agenda 2063   ...

Launching the latest Southern African Customs Union Annual Report, its Executive Director, Paulina Elago remarked that the customs union had survived the most challenging year in i...

Africa’s money that could be used to improve lives and reduce poverty is leaving the continent through illicit financial flows defined as money illegally earned, transferred and ...

African Union Trade Experts meeting in Addis Ababa from 8 to 10 May 2015, considered UNCTAD’s suggestions on policy and negotiation options for building the African Continental F...

Opening Statement by Mr. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD at the seventh session of the Trade and Development Commission, 18-22 May 2015 Good morning and welco...

The African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) yesterday stated that products imported from countries outside Africa constitute...

The European Commission on Tuesday (19 May) said mandatory requirements on EU companies to trace conflict minerals would hurt trade. EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem told ...

Far more conservative and far less leveraged than their global counterparts, South African banks may yet face massive fines from the country’s competition authorities for alleged...

The selection: Tuesday, 19 May Today, in Accra: 47th Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government West African leaders meet Tuesday in Ghana’s capi...

The Tony Elumelu Foundation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa concluded a three-day working session to create a roadmap on how to implement an ambitious plan to...

The Secretary General of East African Community, Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera has assured Chief Executive Officers of Private Businesses and Business Leaders/Owners in Tanzania that t...

The world is on the right track to make sustainable energy a reality for everyone by 2030, but that can only happen if countries dramatically accelerate their efforts and have acce...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged African governments to open their borders, trade with each other and reduce dependency on foreign aid. Speaking at the Pan African Parlia...

For serious economies, local incentives that will assist exporters of value-added products in managing their operational costs and ensuring maximal business profits as well as retu...

Ethiopia is targeting $1 billion of annual investment in industrial parks over the next decade to boost exports and make it Africa’s top manufacturer, a special adviser to Prime ...

The selection: Monday, 18 May African Economic Outlook 2015 This 2015 Outlook’s thematic chapter will focus on regional development and spatial inclusion. It takes an analytica...

Countries in developing Asia have, for the first time, collectively invested more money abroad than countries in the North American and European regions, the latest UNCTAD Global I...