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Washington, D.C., 4-6 August 2014 I. Background President Obama welcomed leaders from across the African continent to Washington, D.C., for a three-day U.S.-Africa Lead...

President Obama and African leaders took part in three action-oriented sessions today [6 August 2014] as part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. The su...

Trade liberalization has progressed with historically unprecedented speed in the 21st century: trade volumes are booming; and hundreds of millions have been lifted out of dire pove...

The managing director of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi, has blamed federal government’s fiscal measures that restricted some imports into the country and ...

Well-funded Kenyan banks are set to lead regional lenders in business expansion over the next two years owing to larger capital bases and investment in mobile technology, a new rep...

Speech by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ms Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, on the occasion of a Public Lecture on: “South Africa’s Chairpersonship of BR...

The inaugural U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit was held in Washington, D.C. from 4-6 August 2014. The Summit, the largest event any U.S. President has held with African heads of sta...

How to evaluate whether the SADC Free Trade Area is making solid progress? Which Member States are on track offering largely tariff-free access to the other SADC Member States? How...

The government is likely to allow some US chicken imports into the local market at lower tariffs in exchange for continued participation in the lucrative African Growth and Opportu...

African leaders on Tuesday called for a deeper economic relationship with the United States, hailing investment pledges totaling more than $17 billion at a Washington summit as a f...

India refused to yield ground on Tuesday on its spat with the World Trade Organisation and said it believed it could convince other members that its need for more freedom on food s...

Africa is the world’s second-fastest growing economic region, yet US engagement with the continent is lagging. There’s an opportunity to change that. The White House has ...

Tanzania will now allow East Africans to freely move capital in and out of the country – a move that is expected to increase cross-border investment and deepen economic in...

The formation of border teams is seen as a key move in enhancing trade and cargo movement across East African, a Tanzanian government official has said. Mr Kagyabukama Kilib...

In June 2012, I released the US Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, outlining a comprehensive US policy for the region. The Strategy builds on many of the initiatives launched dur...

Leaders at Summit seek to renew program extending tariff, quota exemptions U.S. and African leaders meeting in Washington on Monday kicked off a campaign to renew a program t...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has developed an initiative to eliminate intra-regional food import and export bans to improve food security and promot...

On the eve of the Africa-US Summit to be held in Washington DC this week, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has underscored that wit...

As the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit got underway here Monday, anti-corruption activists urged President Barack Obama to prod a key U.S. agency to issue long-awaited regulat...

Our institutions for governing world trade and our thinking about world trade date back to a simpler era. Without a radical rethink, we risk the gradual decay of our most valuable ...