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The Government of Rwanda, through the Rwanda Development Board, will host WEDF 2014 in Kigali. Rwanda, an excellent gateway for doing business in the East African region and b...

Three trade organisations, which Zimbabwe is member to, have conducted a study on key public infrastructure protection to curb Information Technology (IT) related crimes which are ...

The Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) is ready to implement the Single Customs Territory system across the Northern Corridor, writes Agnes Bateta RRA officials believe this will...

Communiqué of the 34th Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government The 34th Ordinary meeting of the Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Devel...

SADC Heads of State and Government attending the regional summit in Victoria Falls have signed the Protocol on Trade and Services. SADC Chairperson, President ...

South Africa should take advantage of its comparative industrial advantage to lead other regional countries in building their manufacturing base to ensure collective socio-economic...

Trade facilitation has a long history in UNCTAD, whose mandate in this area dates from the Final Act of its First Ministerial Conference in 1964. The Final Act of the Conference r...

The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) will in two weeks time start collecting public views on the new East African Community (EAC) Cooperatives Bill 2014. The Bill’s obje...

The Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources Kitso Mokaila has revealed that government is currently drafting an energy policy. The policy is expected to map out a successf...

Nearly 137,000 direct jobs are set to be created during the construction of a 10,000-kilometre road network over the next three years, government estimates show. The Transport a...

At a time of economic and financial stress, the aid budgets of the main donor countries are under pressure. Aid for Trade (AfT) will not be spared, as shown by the decline in AfT s...

Africa’s economic rise over the past two decades is no longer news. In the decade from 2003, the region’s output expanded by over five percent a year, in spite of a protracted ...

Progress will come when agreements are implemented Among Africa’s policy wonks, underperforming trade across the continent is a favoured subject. To unravel the puzzle, they ree...

Southern African leaders have made renewed calls for regional economic integration and cross-border infrastructure development as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...

The SADC Council of Ministers meeting held on August 14 and 15, 2014 at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe was attended by Ministers from all SADC Member States. The meeting was chaired by H...

Kenya and Egypt are headed for a trade dispute that could affect the former’s tea exports following allegations that Cairo is importing sugar from Brazil and exporting it to Ke...

Macharia Gaitho, among other critics of the recent Africa-US Leaders Summit, was recently sceptical in the press of the benefits the summit could be said to have brought. Hi...

The first Bureau Meeting of the third African Union Conference of Ministers Responsible for Mineral Resources Development (CAMRMRD) was held on 13 August 2014 in Luanda, Angola. O...

Market integration is key to ensuring sufficient and stable food supplies. This paper assesses the impediments to market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food st...

Investing in ways to adapt to climate change will promote the livelihood of 65 per cent of Africans, the United Nations environmental agency reported, warning also that failing to ...