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The weakening of the kwacha against major currencies is pushing up prices of imported goods and may hurt some businesses, cross-border traders have warned. The local unit has been...

An air routes spat, triggered by the suspension of Air Uganda last year, has seen the East African Community race to conclude an agreement on airlines covering routes between membe...

A report published last month by the Montpellier Panel – an eminent group of agriculture, ecology and trade experts from Africa and Europe – says about 65 percent of Africa’s...

Following the recent African Union (AU) Trade Ministers Conference held in Addis Ababa from December 4-5, 2014, we consider it opportune to discuss what 2015 may hold for progress ...

Job losses and food insecurity are among the far-reaching and persistent socio-economic impacts of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the results of two new World Bank...

The world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) – a special category of developing nations created by the General Assembly in 1971 but refused recognition by the World Bank –...

Nigeria’s economy is set face more pressure amid falling oil prices and dwindling revenue, as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) implements the Common Externa...

Economic development and social and cultural shifts have led to the decline of many gender-related inequalities across the world. Prominent among them is the rise in female educati...

Africa is on an upward growth curve, and investors are optimistic about the potential for growth in the oil and gas sector. Resources generally, and oil and gas specifically, have...

China will not follow the path of “Western colonists” in Africa, its foreign minister said during a five-nation tour of the continent, parrying criticism that his country’s ...

Tanzania has become the third east African country in as many months to discover the size of its economy is bigger than previously thought, benefiting from a surge of investment fr...

Zambia’s government is under mounting pressure to reverse a royalty hike that could trigger thousands of layoffs at a copper mine owned by Barrick Gold Corp., but a rollback is ...

Rwandan minister of Infrastructure James Musoni has said that the Rusomo one stop border will unlock Rwanda’s business opportunities and boost intra-regional trade. He was speak...

Shipping experts are of the view that Nigeria urgently needs to build a brand new deep seaport in Lagos, among other reforms that will reduce costs and corruption in the ports syst...

Brazil and Russia’s membership of the BRICs may expire by the end of this decade if they fail to revive their flagging economies, according to Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman...

Visiting Ghana, Africa’s heartland when it comes to African unity and integration, how  can one not be tempted to share his or her views about such lofty ideals, especially as ...

Africa’s growth is being powered by things other than commodities FOR decades commodity prices have shaped Africa’s economic growth. The continent is home to a third of the pl...

Gains from low oil prices can be substantial for developing-country importers if supported by stronger global growth, says a World Bank Group analysis of the oil price decline, con...

When Uganda recruited more than 1,400 women from rural villages and took them to the country’s capital, Kampala, in 2002, the east African state dreamed big. The women were to...

The year 2015 will be an eventful one for the more than one billion people living in Africa. China, Africa’s largest trading partner, will hold the 6th Forum on China-Africa Coop...