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President Zuma led the South African delegation to attend the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane, Australia which took place on 15 to 16 November 2014, concluding Australia’s preside...

As of early November, 2014, Liberia has had nearly 7,000 cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and more than 2,500 deaths. Many of the cases have occurred in the poorest and most dens...

The general trend in the food security situation in COMESA region is of an increase in cereal production with a number of countries registering positive growth. According to ...

Introduction The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was established in 1994 to replace the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA) set u...

The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) said on Tuesday it was still committed to negotiations with India over a delayed preferential trade agreement (PTA). “We are still conf...

The 5th EAC Conference on Good Governance took place on 14-15 November, 2014 in Bujumbura, Burundi. The theme was “Delivering Peaceful and Credible Elections for Sustainable Regi...

This report highlights the status of eliminations of NTBs in the EAC region as of September 2014. The report was developed from the 15th EAC Regional Forum on NTBs held on 25-...

East Africa is making significant progress in their economic integration agenda with a focus on trade and transport facilitation to improve its competitiveness. Heavy investments ...

China just announced a mitigation goal to peak its emissions by 2030 or earlier, while the United States committed to reduce its national emissions by 26-28 percent ...

As Africa gears up for the post-2015 development negotiations participants attending the experts segment of the 9th Regional Review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Acti...

Africa’s skill gap is preventing the continent from achieving its optimum economic growth, a pan African think tank said on Thursday. Visiting Executive Secretary of African Cap...

Inadequate port infrastructure and the recent Ebola disaster are among the top hindrances to trade in Africa, with Kenya being among the affected countries. The Pan African Associ...

The tendency to impose trade-restricting measures remains strong among the EU’s commercial partners, fuelling continuing uncertainty in the world economy. These are the main find...

On the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the African Union (AU) decided to declare 2014 as the Year of Ag...

African governments are working towards establishing an association of regional co-operative banks that will represent the continent’s interests in the global financial sector ...

There is a strong push on the continent to avoid South African ports and “lesson dependence” on the country, Africa Project Access MD Paul Runge said. The move is driven by ec...

Every morning, more than three thousand workers in uniform do morning exercises before taking their places on a leather shoe production line. As the largest shoemaker and a sizabl...

Last week’s promise by members of the European Union (EU) that they would allow genetically modified foods from Kenya into their region may have been premature, with the European...

Inefficiency in most African seaports is to blame for the lacklustre economic performance of such countries. Industrialisation and Enterprise Development Cabinet Secretary A...

While the majority of countries around the world are expected to cut public expenditures in 2015 and beyond, others will be moving in the opposite direction to expand social protec...