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In Africa’s Great Lakes region, UNCTAD helps build peace through cross-border trade

26 Jan 18 News

UNCTAD Deputy Secretary General Isabelle Durant joins UN partners to pledge political and logistical support to formerly warring central African countries. Cross-border trade betw...

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04 Dec 17 News

The African Ministers of Trade ministerial concluded over the weekend in Niamey. The UNECA has released this summary of progress towards the CFTA: “Substantial progress was made,...

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17 Nov 17 News

Updates on African trade policy processes from Amb. Albert Muchanga (AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry): The 8th CFTA Negotiating Forum to be held in Abuja next week will be f...

China’s ambitions in sub-Saharan Africa: efforts to rebalance bilateral relations still needed

10 Nov 17 News

Risky trade dependence for sectors and countries that export commodities Almost twenty years after the launch of the first Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China-Africa relation...

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02 Nov 17 News

@AUTradeIndustry: the 1st Trade Policy Dialogue Forum kicks off at AU to promote exchange of stakeholders’ views on CFTA and private sector development Underway, in Cape Town: f...

Africa unites to attach investment at Africa Oil Week in Cape Town

02 Nov 17 News

The key themes discussed at Africa Oil Week 2017 were the development of the continents’ oil and gas resources, with a focus on exploration, regulatory frameworks and governance ...

Africa’s oil & gas industry needs to ‘learn to leapfrog’ and harness innovation and technology to stay ahead of the competition

02 Nov 17 News

PwC’s Africa Oil and Gas Review, 2017 analyses what has happened in the last 12 months in the oil and gas industry within the major and emerging markets The oil & gas indust...

Sub-Saharan Africa: The path to recovery

30 Oct 17 News

The broad-based slowdown in sub-Saharan Africa is easing, and growth is expected to pick up to 2.6 percent in 2017 from last year's 1.4 percent, the IMF said in its latest Regional...

IMF Executive Board 2017 Article IV Consultation with Zambia

26 Oct 17 News

On October 6, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Zambia. The near-term outlook for the Zambian...

Running the numbers: making extractives count for Africa

20 Oct 17 News

As African resource-rich countries battle with the macroeconomic impact of the dip in global commodity prices, many look back at the 2004-2013 upswing in the commodity cycle and co...

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13 Oct 17 News

Updated World Bank macro poverty outlook reports: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe AU’s STC on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning ...

Commodities and the SDGs: UNCTAD Expert Meeting to discuss developments, challenges and opportunities in commodity markets

10 Oct 17 News

In the 15 years countries have to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the commodity sector will play a crucial role in facilitating their attainment, notably in commodity-de...

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04 Oct 17 News

Profiled trade and regional integration editorial commentaries: (i) New Times: EAC could achieve more if all member states moved at the same pace; (ii) Business Day: Catch-22 of tr...

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22 Sep 17 News

In this week’s tralac’s e-Newsletter: Talkmore Chidede discusses a recent suit filed by Zimbabwe invoking the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol Yesterday’s African Union ...

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19 Sep 17 News

Events, Thursday, in New York: (i) Flagship reforms for a more effective African Union: a conversation with Rwandan President Paul Kagame (Brookings Institution); (ii) Income inequ...

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08 Sep 17 News

tralac’s Weekly e-newsletter is posted: The battle over safeguards on poultry imports from the EU continues Profiled African trade and industrial policy events: (i) Growing bus...

‘Harmonized policies to underpin mineral resource gains in Africa’

08 Sep 17 News

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa region holds the highest potential for minerals development in the continent. According to the Secretary General of COMESA Sindis...

IMF Executive Board 2017 Article IV Consultation with Ghana

07 Sep 17 News

On September 6, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund completed the 2017 Article IV Consultation with Ghana as well as the fourth review of the arrangement u...

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04 Sep 17 News

Starting, today in Accra: ACBF’s 26th Board of Governors Meeting on the theme Enhancing access to and absorption of development resources in Africa. The Atlantic Council launche...

Sasol banking on big projects in Africa, US

04 Sep 17 News

Sasol, the international integrated chemicals and energy company, has several near-complete projects in the pipeline that the group is banking on for its future performance. The g...