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China beats Japan to become Kenya’s top foreign financier
15 Aug 2014China has replaced Japan as Kenya’s largest bilateral lender, helped by its participation in the East African nation’s mega infrastructure projects, the Treasury’s latest deb...
read moreSADC bemoans ‘stagnant’ cereal production
15 Aug 2014The SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department says production of cereals has remained stagnant in the past four years and resulted in shortfalls that have to be met b...
read moreRegional blocs meet to harmonize Rules of Origin
15 Aug 2014The meeting of SADC-EAC-COMESA rules of origin were held in Burundi on 4-7 August 2014. The purpose of the meeting was to harmonize the rules of origin in SADC, EAC, and COMESA in ...
read moreEU must be fair during EPAs negotiations
14 Aug 2014Recently, I led the East African Community-European Union delegation to a meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, that had been convened to resolve three outstanding issues on Economic Partners...
read moreResetting SADC priorities: RISDP review
14 Aug 2014SADC has completed the review process for the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) and the draft revised document is expected to be presented to the Council of Mi...
read moreUS-Africa Summit shifts relationship from aid to commercial partnership
14 Aug 2014A number of South African and international commentators have wondered whether there was any real substance to the US-Africa Summit in the first week of the month, or whether all t...
read moreAligning Kenya to benefit from new foreign investment opportunities
14 Aug 2014It was interesting reading through the proceedings of the US-Africa forum, which focused mainly on business investment opportunities between the two continents.
America is at lo...
read moreUsing innovative technologies to break barriers in regional trade
14 Aug 2014A World Bank Report called “Defragmenting Africa” describes Africa’s borders as thick. This thickness is attributed to “mountains of documents that exporters and importers ...
read moreKenya signs customs agreement with US
14 Aug 2014Kenya has signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) with the United States marking a significant milestone in collaboration on security and trade facilitation between the...
read moreAGOA: Observations on Competitiveness and Diversification of U.S. Imports from Beneficiary Countries
13 Aug 2014What GAO Found
U.S. imports from African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries have increased since 2001, but AGOA countries’ share of overall U.S. imports remained small ...
read moreTrade with African economies and investment in Africa offer big rewards
13 Aug 2014In his famous piece ‘How to write about Africa’, the Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina satirically advised pundits to ‘treat Africa as if it were one country… 900 million p...
read moreMines pay over Sh300billion in royalty
13 Aug 2014The government last year collected Sh310.66 billion as royalty and taxes from large scale mines, according to the Tanzania Minerals Audit Agency (TMAA) annual audit Report.
TMAA D...
read moreUS-Africa summit was positive – Minister Davies
13 Aug 2014South Africa and Africa in general benefitted immensely from the recent US-Africa Leaders’ Summit held in Washington last week, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on Tue...
read moreMorocco to host the 9th Africa Development Forum
13 Aug 2014Forum to focus on innovative financing for Africa’s transformation
The Ninth African Development Forum will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 16 October 2014 on the...
read moreTrans-Kalahari railway on track
13 Aug 2014The tendering for the feasibility study for the construction of the multi-billion dollar railway line connecting Botswana’s Mmamabula coal field to the port of Walvis Bay is expe...
read moreNigeria’s foreign trade increases to N5.51tn in first quarter
13 Aug 2014Imports down by 6.2%, India remains major trade partner
Nigeria’s total merchandise trade increased by 6.8 per cent to about N5.51 trillion in the first quarter of the year (Q1 ...
read moreNew Zimbabwean permits announced
13 Aug 2014Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has announced the details of the new Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permit (ZSP).
Outlining the particulars of the ZSP at a media briefing in ...
read moreFinally, light at end of the tunnel for 5,000mw dream thanks to US deal
12 Aug 2014
While the agenda at the recently concluded US-Africa Summit included such things as governance and education, the underlying motivation was business with Africa.
But the first n...
read moreMozambique: Assembly passes Petroleum Bill
12 Aug 2014The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Monday passed the first reading of a bill amending the country’s law on petroleum and gas, intended, according to the ...
read moreAfrican states must conclude double taxation pacts to attract investors
12 Aug 2014
With the increasing Africa-wide trade efforts fronted by various governments, it is imperative that these governments offer supportive trade platforms for their nationals and inv...
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