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A continental strategy to strengthen regional cotton value chains for poverty reduction and food security Despite its significance in local economies, the African cotton sector is...

Developing countries are losing money through illicit channels at twice the rate at which their economies are growing, according to new estimates released Tuesday. Further, the tot...

Sub-Saharan Africa’s small middle-income countries should implement strong reforms to boost growth and avoid the “middle-income trap,” seminar participants concluded in Mauri...

The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (“ICA”) has published its Infrastructure Financing Trends In Africa 2013 annual report, which finds that, for the second year running, ...

Whoever controls the seed controls the entire food chain. If Ghana’s Plant Breeders Bill passes, small-scale farmers’ rights over this essential resource could go straight into...

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a leading investment grade rated multilateral development finance institution, on 17 December 2014 announced the close of a $300 million dual tran...

The OECD Development Assistance Committee DAC convened its 2014 High Level Meeting from 15 to 16 December 2014 in Paris. The principal objective of the meeting was the modernisati...

The Climate for Development in Africa (Clim-Dev Africa) programme dinner dialogue was held at the margins of the UN Global Climate Change Conference (COP 20) in Lima, Peru, to disc...

The European Union as Chair of the Development Partners Task Team and the World Bank presented a statement agreed by development partners affirming their support to the Malabo Decl...

The gathering of oil and gas companies at Africa Oil Week this year was characterised by a number of concerns regarding the sector’s prospects. Held in Cape Town in early Novembe...

Major emerging economies should push forward with policies to address high energy intensity and corrosive energy subsidies, and to encourage wider investment, according to the Worl...

The governments of Kenya and Ethiopia have signed an agreement that aims at creating opportunities for communities at the borders of the two countries, President Uhuru Kenyatta s...

The 2014 edition of the African Development Bank’s African Development Report, on the theme of “Regional integration at the service of inclusive growth”, was officially ...

African Heads of States and Governments recognize the potential contribution of tourism to the growth and transformation of the continent, given that Africa is endowed with rich an...

Construction of one-stop border post linking Rubavu in Western Province to Goma town in eastern DR Congo was launched on 15 December 2014. The border post is expected help meet th...

The BIR world recycling organisation has welcomed OECD proposals of multilateral action to counter the harmful impact of export restrictions on steelmaking. The advice was given at...

This publication, Local Content Requirements and the Green Economy, is a product of the Trade Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch, DITC, UNCTAD. It was ...

COMESA Secretariat is coming up with a model legislation to assist Member States in implementing the One Stop Border Post (OSBP). The model will be shared with Member States early ...

WTO intellectual property negotiators said they were committed to meet the July 2015 deadline for laying down plans on how to complete the Doha Round talks – in their case on how...

The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has the worst death toll since the disease was diagnosed in 1976. It also has farreaching socio-economic consequences. Althoug...