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Tanzania will start benefiting from potential natural gas revenues in the next few years but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants the country to spend the money transparentl...

Our membership of BRICS is stronger than before! We were there at the Summit in Sanya, China, when the vision document of BRICS was crafted and adopted. We were in New Delhi, India...

Zambia is planning to build five new railway lines to link its mining provinces to all regional trade corridors, in the landlocked nation’s latest drive to boost its inadequate i...

1. Introduction 1.1. Trade and investment are two priority areas of cooperation emphasized in the BRICS Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework. Trade Ministers endorsed this F...

EU and US officials today [18 July 2014] ended a sixth round of week-long negotiations in Brussels on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a new trade and inv...

If only African borders were as porous to trade as they are to Ebola. The latest epidemic of the deadly virus is out of control. It spread from its origins in Guinea, killing at le...

South Africa near a European citrus imports ban. Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies on Monday vowed to fight tooth and nail to avert a possible European ban on citrus imports ...

Tanzania’s current account deficit – meaning that the country’s economy is functioning on borrowed means – widened by 24 per cent in the year ending June 2014 a...

President Jacob Zuma on Saturday announced plans to explore parts of the ocean to find economic potential that could contribute to the country’s gross domestic product....

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has noted that the Department of Trade and Industry is reported to have refused to include the prohibition of export taxes in th...

Current status On 15 July 2014 the EPA negotiations were successfully concluded in South Africa. This ended ten years of negotiations and produced an Agreement that ...

The Democratic Alliance welcomes the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the SADC EPA group and European Union (EU). With the agreement now making its way to ...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) have begun working towards facilit...

Deputy Director-General Yonov Frederick Agah, in presenting the Director-General’s report on trade-related developments (mid-November 2013 to mid-May 2014) to the Trade Policy Re...

The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit blog series is a collection of posts discussing efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and Africa ahead of the first continen...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Africa’s flagship Regional Economic Community, deserves credit for surviving myriad political, security and socio-economic...

Eleventh hour negotiations to win Indian approval for a breakthrough global trade pact may not have succeeded in the end despite initial signs of progress, sources involved in the ...

Statement by C.H.G. Schlettwein Minister of Trade and Industry 16 July 2014 Hon. Speaker Hon. Members I rise to provide an update on the negotiations between Namibia and the E...

After ten years of preparations and negotiations, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the SADC EPA Group and the EU was ‘initialed’ by the Chief Negotiators on 15 ...

United Nations officials today stressed the need to harness the necessary resources to take Africa’s progress to the next level, calling for increased investment to boost the con...