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Mozambique is due this year to become an oil producing country and significant progress is also expected to be made in natural gas and coal production, according to the Economist I...

There have been talks of Africa’s financial integration for more than two decades, but there aren’t any concerted, credible and encouraging signs that Africa is nearing its goa...

A moderately bright future in the economy may be expected this year with the continued fiscal windfall from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), analysts say. However, an ec...

Angola’s minister for trade, Rosa Pacavira said Saturday in Luanda that Angola may only join the SADC Free Trade Zone only in 2017. The minister said that joining the Free Trade...

In 2013, despite continuous global economic sluggishness, China and Africa continued a sound momentum of growth in their economic and trade relations. The two sides now enjoy a mor...

Martin Gobizandla Dlamini, the new Minister of Finance, is aware of the challenges of the country’s economy in case South Africa pulls out of the Southern African Customs Union (...

The Australian Anti-Dumping Commission has ended its investigation of alleged dumping by South African producers of prepared or preserved peaches, following an application brought ...

The proposed agreement on trade facilitation is one of the key issues on the negotiators’ table in the run-up to the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference, to be h...

Overnight agreement gives countries until first quarter of 2015 to publish plans for cutting greenhouse gases from 2020 Governments around the world have just over a year in which...

In many countries in Africa, the majority of small farmers are women. They produce crops such as maize, cassava, cotton, and rice that have enormous potential for increased trade b...

Africa faces huge financial challenges in adapting to climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) that spells out the costs faced by the contin...

A new report could shed light on whether efforts to develop African economies are doing any good. On September 30, United States Trade Representative Michael Froman wrote a letter...

African governments must take full ownership of the continent’s institutions to drive greater integration and unity, according to Mo Ibrahim and several other high-level particip...

During the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Ministerial Trade Committee that met in Brussels on 9-10 October 2013, Ministers outlined the ACP countries’ common position for ...

Low-income populations benefit the most from technological innovations such as mobile payments, mobile banking, and borrower identification based on fingerprinting and iris scans, ...

Regional Integration Key to Transformation and Development UPDATE: The African Economic Conference 2013 Report is now available for download. Heads of State and business and...

China and India have agreed to step up cooperation in BRICS to safeguard “common interests”. India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has identified the BRICS Development Bank and ...

“Regional Integration in Africa,” the theme of this year’s October 28-30 African Economic Conference (AEC) in Johannesburg, is at the very core of the quest for the...

Traffic at the port of Maputo rose almost four-fold between 2003 and 2012, but the facility and its associated transport corridor still have potential to grow, the Economist Intell...

Address by Karel De Gucht, European Trade Commissioner, to the EU-ACP Joint Ministerial Trade Committee, Brussels, 11 October 2013 Ministers, This is now the fourth time tha...