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UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi, speaking on the opening afternoon of the sixty-first session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board on 15 September said: “Today there...

Two months since implementation, differences in custom systems across East African Community (EAC) partner states are reported to be undermining the region’s single window system...

Oil industry top officials believe that Uganda must look for between $15 billion to $20 billion if it wants to become an oil producing country. Jimmy Mugerwa the Tullow Uganda Cou...

The first ever Canada-Africa Business Summit opened on Monday (September 15) in Toronto, Ontario. The meeting focused on ways to explore Africa’s investment and business opportu...

Vice President Namadi Sambo has said the turnaround time of ships in Nigerian ports has improved tremendously. According to Sambo, ships now spent less time at the nation’s port...

The Federal Government has concluded plans to raise the volume of trade between the country and 14 Asian countries from the current $40 billion (N6.62 trillion) to $80 billion (N13...

Chief executive officers in Africa are optimistic about growth despite challenges in the continent, a PriceWaterhouse-Coopers study says. The audit firm’s 17th Global CEO Surv...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last Thursday urged UN members to make a final push to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to simultaneously work towards bui...

Former Trade Minister Dr Mukhisa Kituyi has urged the government to consider renegotiating decades-old bilateral agreements, arguing that they favour foreign investors at the expen...

Burundi has started trials for electronic tracking of cargo on transit in a bid to prevent dumping of goods for which no taxes have been paid into the local market. Burundi Revenu...

The $140 billion lost by Nigeria to illicit financial flows has been linked to lack of integrity and transparency among business organisations and government institutions. Nigeria...

Tanzania signed a $565 million deal on Friday with the World Bank and other development partners to expand its main port of Dar es Salaam, part of plans to boost its role as a regi...

Mozambique is expected in 2015 to conclude its implementation of customs tariff exemptions as part of the process to build a free trade zone in the Southern African Development Com...

With more than 800,000 job seekers entering Tanzania’s labor market each year, the country must transform itself from a labor force of unproductive jobs to one of more productive...

Allowing only highly skilled workers, exorbitant work permit fees and the tedious process of documentation are part of the restrictive conditions stifling free movement of labo...

Zimbabwean Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday unveiled new individual and commercial tax measures as the government increasingly turns to taxation to prop up falling re...

A flurry of meetings is scheduled for the coming weeks as WTO members – having now returned to Geneva following their annual August break – try to pick up the pieces after miss...

The government of Mozambique has its projection for the amount of natural gas contained in the Rovuma Basin from 170 billion to 200 billion cubic feet, according to figures present...

Following the revolution, Tunisia revealed two extraordinary assets. The first was the capacity to reconcile between different political, social and religious beliefs to reach a po...

There is still slow progress in the removal of Non-Tariff Barriers in the East African Community (EAC) despite efforts in implementing commitments made in the customs union and com...