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Africa plans to lay out a strong case for increased investments in the water, food and energy sectors at the UN Climate Summit in New York to be held on 23 September, according to ...

Every year, thousands of small-scale farmers in Kenya generate income by growing crops for the export market. But they are scattered all over the country and it is often an uphill ...

Africa is open for business. This was the unanimous message from business and government leaders attending the World Export Development Forum (WEDF), in Kigali,...

WTO members remained divided on how to proceed with work on agriculture under the 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference’s decisions, when they met informally as the regular Agricultur...

Despite improvements in the lives of millions of people around the world, the United Nations today reported that persistent gaps between promises made and those delivered by develo...

Tourism in Africa will tremendously improve if the continent’s image is promoted by regional blocs rather than individual countries, experts have said. The idea was mooted yeste...

Members of Parliament want the government to explore new funding models for development projects to avoid overburdening the country with debts. In a report released this week, t...

Egypt needs better jobs. It also needs more jobs. The small-sized firms Egypt needed to employ Egypt’s young working population aren’t growing fast enough to meet the demands. ...

The Key Message At the moment, given the current economic environment, the 10% economic growth target envisaged in Vision 2030 appears to be unachievable in the medium term. Not...

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has stolen the lives of more than 5,000 people since January 2014. In addition to lost lives, the disease is dealing a severe economic blow to fam...

India is likely to become the world’s fastest growing exporter and UAE’s top export and import destination by 2030, according to a study.  The lates...

Investments to help fight climate change can also spur economic growth, rather than slow it as widely feared, but time is running short for a trillion-dollar shift to transform cit...

More than 800 million people – or one in every nine on the planet – suffer from hunger, but a new joint UN agency report released today stated that the Millennium Development G...

Regionalism has gained strong momentum in sub-Saharan Africa. Statistics and trends have proven that regional groupings, not only provide opportunities for addressing common challe...

Deputy minister for Finance Mwigulu Nchemba said yesterday the government is planning to form an independent authority specifically for collecting and administering non-tax rev...

The Deputy Ambassador of South Africa to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Mr Andrew Maswanganye says South Africa and the DRC need to put more focus on their industrialisat...

A half day workshop was jointly organized by the African Union Commission and the Global Ocean Commission on 15th September 2014, to reflect on the findings of the commission’s r...

In a press statement issued this afternoon, the Seychelles Ministry of Finance, Trade and Investment said the final bilateral agreement was signed in Geneva Switzerland...

Africa should focus on greater local value addition to the continent’s assets in agri-food, manufacturing as well as services to help propel its economy, the International Trad...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) has launched a new initiative expected to push for increased participation of women entrepreneurs in public procurement. The initiative is hop...