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The African Union Commission and NEPAD Agency have launched the AU Implementation Strategy and Roadmap to achieve the 2014 Malabo Declaration, for agricultural growth and shared pr...

Ethiopia has averaged a 10.7% economic growth rate over the last 10 years, more than double the annual average of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, which was around 5.2%. However, d...

The concept of carbon pricing as a tool to combat climate change is broadly accepted by the international community. But at what price, and under what conditions? As the world look...

A senior official of African Union (AU) said Tuesday the long-awaited tripartite free trade area between three regional blocs is expected to be launched in May in Cairo, Egypt. To...

Kenyan traders have won a major reprieve after a top organ of the East African Community trading bloc ruled that taxes on exports will be based on ex-factory prices of goods, offer...

Botswana’s share from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) common revenue pool showed a significant jump during the 2012-2013 financial years. In its latest annual report, ...

Belgium has suspended part of its aid programme to Rwanda in response to the country’s poor human rights record. The conditionality of aid is a subject of disagreement among Euro...

The planned EU-US free trade agreement TTIP holds unexpected opportunities for developing countries, according to a recent study. But while the European Commission has high hopes f...

The rapid economic growth Ethiopia has witnessed in the past decade has failed to bring about the kind of structural changes that would help reduce poverty in a meaningful way, a...

Kenya has lost a chunk of its global market share in horticulture in the last five years, a new study shows. Despite a jump in exports of fruits and vegetables from 100,000 ...

In last year’s Foresight Africa 2014 report, Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) scholars and colleagues highlighted many issues they believed would influence the course of ...

Below are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “Making 2015 a Historic Year” dinner, in Davos, Switzerland, on 23 January. Thank you for joining us tonight...

Federation of Swaziland Employers and Chamber of Commerce (FSE&CC) Chief Executive Officer Bonisiwe Ntando says the country still needs to invest in building capacity of all st...

In a statement delivered at the opening of the 26th Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive Council, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carl...

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman formally delivered the United States’ letter of acceptance of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement to WTO Director General Roberto Azevê...

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has met with US Trade Representative Michael Froman as part of a stepped up effort to resolve a dispute involving US chicken imports into the...

A year ago in Davos, World Bank Group President Jim Kim encouraged investors at the World Economic Forum to take a closer look at green bonds, a relatively new but growing option f...

The buying and selling of goods and services between businesses in neighbouring EAC Partner States with the seller being in one Partner State and the buyer in the other, for exampl...

NEPAD’s impact and progress came under the spotlight on Sunday at the NEPAD Steering Committee meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ahead of the 24th African Union Assembly. The Co...

A supply glut and lower production have seen depressed earnings from tea and coffee in Uganda and Burundi. In results for the 2014 season, Uganda reported coffee exports of ...