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Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, opening the WTO Public Forum’s second plenary session “Why Trade Matters to Africa” on 2 October, said that trade has an important role in ...

A study by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has revealed that Gulf entities have provided at least US$30bn of funding, at current prices, to African infrastructure o...

The adoption of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is crucial to ensure that Ghana’s exports to the European Union (EU) are not disrupted from January 1, 2015. Mr Murtala ...

The Head of EU Delegation to Nigeria, Amb. Michel Arrion, has said that the EU-Nigeria bilateral trade volume is set to grow to N17 trillion (€80.8 billion) by 2015. Speaking at...

The 4th Pan-African Quality Infrastructure (PAQI) meeting kicked off today at the African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters. The one-day meeting was jointly organized by the AUC ...

Tanzania exports more goods than what authorities officially record, says a senior official. The director general of the Tanzania Trade Development Authority (Tantrade), Ms ...

Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are expected to announce the adoption of a common external trade policy next year to ensure full economic integrat...

Officials and legal experts attending a regional conference on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Nairobi said independent courts with trained manpower are required to arbit...

Although the South African economy had mixed fortunes in the past decades, in the period between 1975-2012, it experienced the biggest declines in the overall performance, however,...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) on Thursday said that it’s fast-tracking the implementation of investment tracking systems in each of the 19 member st...

In order to move towards more sustainable agriculture, a broader approach is needed to overhaul the world’s food system, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organ...

The Mombasa county government has flexed its muscle by trying to control the stakes at the Kenya Ports Authority by introducing its own levies for all cargo passing through the fac...

South Africa’s trade deficit widened to the biggest in seven months in August as oil imports increased and iron-ore exports fell because of maintenance work on a rail line. The ...

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) initiated the process of rebasing and revision of the National Accounts Statistics in 2010. Specific tasks were to implement some of the ...

A new report by the World Bank Group finds that most states across Nigeria continue to implement regulatory business reforms with Cross River, Ekiti, Niger, Ogun, and Rivers making...

In June 2013, the members of the WTO granted LDCs a second transition period extension for the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement of another eight years (until 2021). With an on...

Against the background of an impasse over the World Trade Organization (WTO) Bali Package, UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board kicked off its second week on 22 September with ...

The 2014 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, launched today, shows that between 2009 and 2013 overall governance improved on the African continent. However, over the past ten year...

The ‘Make in India’ campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been widely welcomed by the South African business sector which is eager to create more bilateral trad...

The BRICS Foreign Ministers met on 25 September 2014 on the margins of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly. In the spirit of openness, inclusiveness and mutual...