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India is likely to become the world’s fastest growing exporter and UAE’s top export and import destination by 2030, according to a study.  The lates...

Investments to help fight climate change can also spur economic growth, rather than slow it as widely feared, but time is running short for a trillion-dollar shift to transform cit...

More than 800 million people – or one in every nine on the planet – suffer from hunger, but a new joint UN agency report released today stated that the Millennium Development G...

Regionalism has gained strong momentum in sub-Saharan Africa. Statistics and trends have proven that regional groupings, not only provide opportunities for addressing common challe...

Deputy minister for Finance Mwigulu Nchemba said yesterday the government is planning to form an independent authority specifically for collecting and administering non-tax rev...

The Deputy Ambassador of South Africa to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Mr Andrew Maswanganye says South Africa and the DRC need to put more focus on their industrialisat...

A half day workshop was jointly organized by the African Union Commission and the Global Ocean Commission on 15th September 2014, to reflect on the findings of the commission’s r...

In a press statement issued this afternoon, the Seychelles Ministry of Finance, Trade and Investment said the final bilateral agreement was signed in Geneva Switzerland...

Africa should focus on greater local value addition to the continent’s assets in agri-food, manufacturing as well as services to help propel its economy, the International Trad...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) has launched a new initiative expected to push for increased participation of women entrepreneurs in public procurement. The initiative is hop...

UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi, speaking on the opening afternoon of the sixty-first session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board on 15 September said: “Today there...

Two months since implementation, differences in custom systems across East African Community (EAC) partner states are reported to be undermining the region’s single window system...

Oil industry top officials believe that Uganda must look for between $15 billion to $20 billion if it wants to become an oil producing country. Jimmy Mugerwa the Tullow Uganda Cou...

The first ever Canada-Africa Business Summit opened on Monday (September 15) in Toronto, Ontario. The meeting focused on ways to explore Africa’s investment and business opportu...

Vice President Namadi Sambo has said the turnaround time of ships in Nigerian ports has improved tremendously. According to Sambo, ships now spent less time at the nation’s port...

The Federal Government has concluded plans to raise the volume of trade between the country and 14 Asian countries from the current $40 billion (N6.62 trillion) to $80 billion (N13...

Chief executive officers in Africa are optimistic about growth despite challenges in the continent, a PriceWaterhouse-Coopers study says. The audit firm’s 17th Global CEO Surv...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last Thursday urged UN members to make a final push to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to simultaneously work towards bui...

Former Trade Minister Dr Mukhisa Kituyi has urged the government to consider renegotiating decades-old bilateral agreements, arguing that they favour foreign investors at the expen...

Burundi has started trials for electronic tracking of cargo on transit in a bid to prevent dumping of goods for which no taxes have been paid into the local market. Burundi Revenu...