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Frustration over Africa’s disparate tax, travel, investment and trading regimes boiled over yesterday as Chris Kirubi, a leading Kenyan businessman and one of the wealthiest peop...

Greater export competitiveness and deeper regional integration could help propel South Africa towards faster-growing exports, allowing it to achieve higher, more inclusive, job-int...

The government needs to focus more on working together with the mining sector in a way that will benefit all people in the country, Randgold Resources CEO Mark Bristow said on Tues...

Responding to current and future economic trends requires a renewed commitment to international cooperation, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in delivering the 2014 Dim...

The flight of foreign direct investment out of Swaziland is apparent in falling tax revenues and is one sign of expected challenges to the economy this year. Gross domestic produc...

Africa’s unmined metals and minerals lie waiting for investors, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Monday. Speaking at the start of the African Mining Indaba in C...

President Jacob Zuma says the African heads of state have prioritised tackling infrastructure bottlenecks to enable intra-Africa investment to happen in a bid to boost the continen...

Experts believe that the creation of a bigger free trade zone beyond the East African Community through opening borders and addressing policies that impede trade is the gateway to ...

Regional lawyers have added their voice to the push to have the jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) extended in a bid to effectively arbitrate in litigation re...

The just concluded negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between East Africa Community (EAC) member states and the European Union (EU) markets have once again ...

When John Endres, CEO of Good Governance Africa, presents his views on the state of Africa to international audiences, he illustrates his talk with three maps. The first covers th...

Investment in value addition activities that multinational companies make around the world should be extended to benefit developing countries Minister of Trade and Industry Calle S...

South Africa’s efforts to reform its intellectual property (IP) regime in order to improve access to medicines has sparked a firestorm in recent weeks, with major pharmaceutical ...

The majority of people in Africa are engaged in the same profession: farming. Most of these individuals are small-holder farmers with fewer than 5 acres of land and little access t...

US President Barack Obama made a public call on Tuesday for Congress to pass “fast track” trade powers, as part of a larger effort to advance ongoing negotiations with the EU a...

At the 30th Session of NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee meeting ahead of the AU Summit the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa sai...

Seventeen telecommunications companies have signed a construction and maintenance agreement for the planned Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable system. The cable will interconnect ...

The 22nd African Union Summit began on Tuesday, 21 January 21 in Addis Ababa with the 27th ordinary session of the AU’s Permanent Representative’s Committee, chaired by Ethiopi...

AU Commission Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwencha, on Tuesday called on African countries to unite in implementing the continent’s approved programme for infrastructure developme...

Foreign direct investment flows to Africa increased nearly 7 percent to an estimated $56 billion last year, nearly a fifth of which went to top recipient South Africa, a United Nat...