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Nearly 80 percent of American companies surveyed by two human rights groups failed to meet a U.S. rule requiring they monitor whether their products contain minerals from war-torn ...

The agriculture sector has shown its support for efforts to combat attacks on foreign nationals. Stakeholders on Wednesday met with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fis...

A lack of rain in the middle of last season caused Seydou Diarassouba’s sorghum crop to fail. Now the emaciated 43-year old farmer must wait for the next rains, due in late June...

Three key United Nations agencies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their support for developing countries as they implement the World Trade Organizatio...

The EU-AU Joint Session on Infrastructure for the Minerals Sector took place on the 19th and 20th of March 2015 within the framework of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) and foll...

How did a Kenyan dreadlock designer obtain the start-up capital to go from street vendor to store owner? As Leora Klapper, Lead Economist in the Research Department, explained, thi...

At the opening of the Africa-Asia Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged rich countries to help the developing world with no political strings attached and fulfill...

It is unlikely that Uganda will produce oil by 2018, Bank of Uganda has indicated. In the monetary policy report for April 2015, the central bank says “the global oil price outl...

The World Bank Group forecasts that economic growth for African countries will slow in 2015 to 4.0 percent from 4.5 percent in 2014, a downturn which largely reflects the sharp fal...

Innovation and competitiveness experts have gathered in Addis Ababa from 21-22 April to review draft chapters of the 7th edition of the joint report on Assessing Regional...

Address by His Excellency Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of the Asia-Africa Business Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, 21 April 2015 Sixty years ago, some ...

Speech by South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) Conference on Cross Border Taxation in Africa, 21 April 2015 Good m...

One positive outcome of last year’s U.S.-African Leaders Summit was the creation of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (DBIA), whose purpose is to mak...

Experts from the African Union reviewed the progress in the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) for least developed countries (LDCs) during a meeting at the e...

Collaboration to start with flagship report on commodity markets The World Trade Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization will bolster their collaboration on matter...

A Common Economic Strategy was currently being worked out in Moscow to bring about a user-friendly and easily accessible trade framework for boosting intra-BRICS trade, said Ms. Su...

On 16 April 2015, the leaders of the U.S. Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees announced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to help advance America’s trade prioritie...

South African poultry producers are making concessions in order to end a dispute with the US over local poultry tariffs and keep the country on track to be included in the renewal ...

Delegates from 109 Asian and African countries will discuss new opportunity on pragmatic economic and trade cooperation while commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Bandung conf...

The Business Council of Southern Africa (BCSA) in collaboration with the NEPAD Foundation and the Association of SADC Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASCCI) will be hosting a re...