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Congestion crisis at Mombasa port
09 Sep 2014
Kenya Ports of Authority is facing congestion crisis and has issued a notice to shipping lines and agents to limit empty export containers to 500 units per vessel.
This ha...
read moreSetting guidelines, uniform tariff regime for freight forwarding practitioners
09 Sep 2014As the Ports Regulator puts finishing touches to the expected guidelines for operators in the ports industry, stakeholders are of the view that the freight forwarders, otherwise po...
read moreClimate finance is flowing, but it isn’t enough – yet
09 Sep 2014
Climate change is expensive, and dealing with it will only grow costlier the longer countries, cities, and industries delay reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The good news is th...
read moreIs the time right for regional infrastructure?
08 Sep 2014The story of Africa’s development is changing. Six of the world’s fastest growing economies are on the continent.
Democratic governance has been strengthened over the past fiv...
read moreSACU RSF Financial suicide – Prof. Grynberg
08 Sep 2014The Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis Senior Research Fellow, Professor Roman Grynberg has criticized the current Southern African Customs Union Revenue Sharing Fo...
read moreGlobal summit urged to focus on trillion-dollar corruption
08 Sep 2014New analysis suggests that developing countries are losing a trillion dollars or more each year to tax evasion and corruption facilitated by lax laws in Western countries, raising ...
read moreFood security: South Africa backs India’s stance at WTO
08 Sep 2014The current WTO norms limit the value of food subsidies at 10% of the total value of foodgrain production
South Africa supports India’s stance at WTO on public fo...
read moreBRICS non-members to hold stake in NDB
08 Sep 2014Asian, African emerging nations sounded out
The BRICS bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will offer 45 per cent stake in the proposed New Development Ba...
read moreThe road ahead for the Environmental Goods Agreement talks
08 Sep 2014The next round of talks towards clinching an Environmental Goods Agreement is scheduled for mid-September. This paper maps the landscape in which the negotiations are taking place ...
read moreFEC ratifies N485trillion for 30-year infrastructure master plan
08 Sep 2014
The Federal Government yesterday ratified a thirty-year National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan (NIIMP) that would cost N485 trillion. This is as a document which is to se...
read moreTime for serious US-Africa partnership is now
08 Sep 2014
US President Barack Obama played host to some 50 African heads of state and government from August 4 to August 6 at a historic US-Africa Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. The ...
read moreCSOs: Transparency in fiscal policies, contractual terms in extractive industries needed
05 Sep 2014Following the recent significant discovery of natural gas in Tanzania, the country has emerged as a potential large gas producer in East Africa, generating substantial interest fro...
read moreEAC plea on pending trade issues with EU
05 Sep 2014The East African Community (EAC) has requested an urgent meeting with the European Union (EU) to finalise outstanding issues in trade negotiations.
The talks planned to be held ...
read moreNigeria’s competitiveness rankings: Reality beats perception
05 Sep 2014
A measure of success for any economic or social indicator lies in its ability to provoke discourse and drive positive and progressive change. We have seen the rise to prominenc...
read moreBenin’s second-hand car trade
05 Sep 2014Cotonou’s bustling port is the lifeblood of the Beninese economy. Bags of cocoa and rice, as well as cotton, make up a substantial amount of the port’s traffic.
However, along...
read moreSudan agrees to undertake tough reforms to improve trade sector and boost economy
05 Sep 2014Sudan policy makers met to discuss and finalize key policy actions to help tackle critical trade challenges holding the country’s economy back, including increasing trade capacit...
read moreInequality clouds growing economy
05 Sep 2014Angola needs to diversify its oil economy
Angola has one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Its economy grew by 5.1% in 2013. As major public infrastructure investments i...
read moreIMF and EAC team up to develop finance data
05 Sep 2014The East African Community (EAC) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have come together to help regional states in compiling finance statistics for their different government...
read moreNigeria aims to boost competitiveness and regional non-oil exports
05 Sep 2014
“Some objectives of our trade agenda include: to achieve non-oil exports to ECOWAS from the present nine per cent to 20 per cent by 2015, with the ultimate goal of increa...
read moreTop 10 most competitive economies in sub-Saharan Africa
04 Sep 2014
The sub-Saharan African region has provided something of a silver lining in an otherwise broadly felt global economic downturn in recent years, according to the latest edition of...
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