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Most local business people struggle to make a breakthrough in export ventures due to lack of knowledge about potential markets, while others are not familiar with the legal regime ...

Following achievements recorded in the agricultural sector, the Federal Government has decided to institutionalise the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, ATA, policy. This was di...

In support of the Nigerian government’s effort to stimulate economic growth and create jobs for its citizens, the World Bank Group has approved a $500 million International Bank ...

Kenya will on Tuesday release half-year economic data that show the size of the economy has increased by nearly a quarter following the completion of changing the base year for com...

When Jubilee came to power, top on its agenda was a desire to improve the economy to the level of growing at a double-digit rate. While this still remains a key target, tough chall...

What should it do to attract more private equity and how can it convert the illicit financial flows to funds for domestic resource mobilization, climate change and conflict resolut...

Over 20 years after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, advancing sustainable development from the local level to the global level remains a major challenge and responsibility. In fact the ...

Zimbabwe’s Cotton-to-Clothing Export Strategy was launched today [26 September 2014] by the Minister of Industry and Commerce, the Deputy Executive Director of the International ...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in closing the WTO Seminar on Cross-Cutting Issues in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on 25 September 2014, said that RTAs “are important for ...

Tanzania, which has Africa’s best-performing stock market, lifted controls on foreign-share ownership, making it more enticing for companies to consider initial public offerings....

It is estimated that government will require about N$223.5 billion over the next four years to finance infrastructure projects in Namibia. According to the Director of Research an...

Insurance Regulators from Eastern Africa today concluded a two week seminar in Dar Es Salaam on the regulatory and supervisory frameworks in the region. Their discussions were also...

Senior Chinese officials and scholars attending a global conference have said it is “unfair and deceitful” for some western countries to condemn the China-Africa partnerships y...

Great gains have been made in the global effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, known worldwide as the “MDGs,” but with the deadline fast approaching more must be ...

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly at its annual high-level debate, Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger warned today against attempts to balkanize Africa and underscored that t...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has adopted, for the first time in Africa, an interactive atlas of renewable energy sources. A virtual continent, the DRC has a wide diversi...

The government has been called upon to ban the importation of products which can be produced by small scale entrepreneurs in the country. Stakeholders say, markets in the country ...

Diversifying the Nigerian economy away from oil would require paying more attention to making agriculture and value-adding manufacturing export more competitive. Good market penet...

Deputy President William Ruto Wednesday told African states to open up their borders for trade among themselves to close the milk deficit gaps that are currently exploited by Eur...

Africa could become a single air transport market that will remove the need for bilateral air services agreements by early 2016, the industry lobby said on Wednesday. African Airl...