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COMESA has prioritized the development of programmes on post conflict reconstruction and development especially in the Great Lakes Region through Trading for Peace Programme. Unde...

Walking the talk: 11th Meeting of the CAADP Partnership Platform calls for delivery of the AU Malabo commitments on agriculture towards women empowerment and development The 11th ...

UNCTAD participated in a series of meetings held in Cotonou, Benin from 9 to 11 March 2015, to mark the 10th anniversary of the European Union-Africa Partnership on Cotton and disc...

Governments in the continent are likely to set aside extra money from their budgets to finance the African Agenda 2063 that was adopted by the Heads of state in January. Experts i...

A new World Bank report is providing a detailed view of Zambia’s poorest households and areas to help the government provide support to those who need it most. Using data from 2...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in opening the seminar on “Trade Finance in Developing Countries” at the WTO on 26 March 2015, pointed to a recent WTO Secretariat paper that...

Seychelles President Michel has signed the legal instrument for the Seychelles’ accession to the World Trade Organisation, WTO. This comes a day after the accessio...

The scope for developing countries to participate in and benefit from e-commerce is expanding, according to a new United Nations report released on 24 March 2015, with improved con...

Elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers Bill, 2015 sails through and now awaits assent by Heads of State It is now official…. Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) shall soon be a thing of the ...

In 2012, the 15 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) identified the OECD’s Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) as a reference for develo...

The launch of the Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CCTTFA), will further open the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Indian Ocean and ease that country’s ...

Heads of State, ministers and officials from 31 governments meeting on Wednesday in Kasane reaffirmed their determination to scale up their response to the global poaching crisis, ...

EALA has debated and adopted a key committee report on the Single Customs Territory. The report of the Committee on Communication, Trade and Investment on oversight activity of th...

Foreign investors are facing challenges in pricing assets in Africa as lack of data and a formal market weigh negatively on their plans to expand in the continent, a survey says....

Foreword Strong voices from the four corners of the globe have continued to tell the compelling story of an African continent that is resolutely on the rise and within the thresho...

The declining level of Kenya’s exports relative to rising imports could derail the country’s positive economic growth outlook of 6 per cent this year, analysts have warned. ...

Ethiopia stressed the need to diversify export items and value addition to boost trade tie between countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. While opening the 34th COMESA I...

EALA on 23 March 2015 debated and adopted the Report of the Committee on Accounts on the EAC’s audited accounts for the Financial Year ending 30th June 2013. The Council of ...

On February 27, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) discussed the five-yearly Review of the Role of Trade in the Work of the Fund. This review f...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in a lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia on 24 March, noted that bilateral and regional trade agreements have been “gr...