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At a time of economic and financial stress, the aid budgets of the main donor countries are under pressure. Aid for Trade (AfT) will not be spared, as shown by the decline in AfT s...

Africa’s economic rise over the past two decades is no longer news. In the decade from 2003, the region’s output expanded by over five percent a year, in spite of a protracted ...

Progress will come when agreements are implemented Among Africa’s policy wonks, underperforming trade across the continent is a favoured subject. To unravel the puzzle, they ree...

Southern African leaders have made renewed calls for regional economic integration and cross-border infrastructure development as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...

The SADC Council of Ministers meeting held on August 14 and 15, 2014 at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe was attended by Ministers from all SADC Member States. The meeting was chaired by H...

Kenya and Egypt are headed for a trade dispute that could affect the former’s tea exports following allegations that Cairo is importing sugar from Brazil and exporting it to Ke...

Macharia Gaitho, among other critics of the recent Africa-US Leaders Summit, was recently sceptical in the press of the benefits the summit could be said to have brought. Hi...

The first Bureau Meeting of the third African Union Conference of Ministers Responsible for Mineral Resources Development (CAMRMRD) was held on 13 August 2014 in Luanda, Angola. O...

Market integration is key to ensuring sufficient and stable food supplies. This paper assesses the impediments to market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food st...

Investing in ways to adapt to climate change will promote the livelihood of 65 per cent of Africans, the United Nations environmental agency reported, warning also that failing to ...

China has replaced Japan as Kenya’s largest bilateral lender, helped by its participation in the East African nation’s mega infrastructure projects, the Treasury’s latest deb...

The SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department says production of cereals has remained stagnant in the past four years and resulted in shortfalls that have to be met b...

The meeting of SADC-EAC-COMESA rules of origin were held in Burundi on 4-7 August 2014. The purpose of the meeting was to harmonize the rules of origin in SADC, EAC, and COMESA in ...

Recently, I led the East African Community-European Union delegation to a meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, that had been convened to resolve three outstanding issues on Economic Partners...

SADC has completed the review process for the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) and the draft revised document is expected to be presented to the Council of Mi...

A number of South African and international commentators have wondered whether there was any real substance to the US-Africa Summit in the first week of the month, or whether all t...

It was interesting reading through the proceedings of the US-Africa forum, which focused mainly on business investment opportunities between the two continents. America is at lo...

A World Bank Report called “Defragmenting Africa” describes Africa’s borders as thick. This thickness is attributed to “mountains of documents that exporters and importers ...

Kenya has signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) with the United States marking a significant milestone in collaboration on security and trade facilitation between the...

What GAO Found U.S. imports from African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries have increased since 2001, but AGOA countries’ share of overall U.S. imports remained small ...