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Eight months after its launch, the East African Payments System (EAPS) has registered modest success, lowering the cost of money transfer and elevating the East African Community...

Addressing key obstacles in its export sector would help Ethiopia to tap into its significant export potential and further facilitate its economic transformation, according to a ne...

The Zimbabwe Sugar Association is to host the Annual Conference of the Federation of SADC Sugar Producers on July 23 2014 in Victoria Falls. This is the first time that Zimbabwe h...

In a move welcomed by European Commissioner for Trade, Karel De Gucht, and by European Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Cioloş, the chief negotiators of the European Union and...

Trade union federation, Cosatu, has attended the third BRICS trade union forum, held on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Brazil. The delegation, led by General Secretary Zwelin...

Africa has moved from third-last to become the second-most attractive investment destination in just four years from 2011 to this year, according to EY’s Africa Attractiveness Su...

International organizations pledge their support for implementing Trade Facilitation Agreement A new initiative unveiled at the WTO on 22 July 2014 will help developing countries ...

Tanzania will start benefiting from potential natural gas revenues in the next few years but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants the country to spend the money transparentl...

Our membership of BRICS is stronger than before! We were there at the Summit in Sanya, China, when the vision document of BRICS was crafted and adopted. We were in New Delhi, India...

Zambia is planning to build five new railway lines to link its mining provinces to all regional trade corridors, in the landlocked nation’s latest drive to boost its inadequate i...

1. Introduction 1.1. Trade and investment are two priority areas of cooperation emphasized in the BRICS Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework. Trade Ministers endorsed this F...

EU and US officials today [18 July 2014] ended a sixth round of week-long negotiations in Brussels on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a new trade and inv...

If only African borders were as porous to trade as they are to Ebola. The latest epidemic of the deadly virus is out of control. It spread from its origins in Guinea, killing at le...

South Africa near a European citrus imports ban. Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies on Monday vowed to fight tooth and nail to avert a possible European ban on citrus imports ...

Tanzania’s current account deficit – meaning that the country’s economy is functioning on borrowed means – widened by 24 per cent in the year ending June 2014 a...

President Jacob Zuma on Saturday announced plans to explore parts of the ocean to find economic potential that could contribute to the country’s gross domestic product....

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has noted that the Department of Trade and Industry is reported to have refused to include the prohibition of export taxes in th...

Current status On 15 July 2014 the EPA negotiations were successfully concluded in South Africa. This ended ten years of negotiations and produced an Agreement that ...

The Democratic Alliance welcomes the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the SADC EPA group and European Union (EU). With the agreement now making its way to ...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) have begun working towards facilit...