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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) have joined forces to assist developing countries in the implementation of ...

The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has said it has no authority in the fight to fully reinstate the Southern African human rights Tribunal, which was suspended a...

EU trade ministers meeting in Athens last week pledged their full support to the ongoing trade talks with the US, as part of a broader push on both sides to allay concerns from pub...

The East African Community Secretariat and European Union Delegation to the United Republic of Tanzania and to the EAC today signed a Financing Agreement totaling 4.45 Million Euro...

Namibia is among eight African countries in the Southern African region that have been recognised among the top 20 “most exciting African mineral jurisdictions”. An investment...

Experts have cautioned the government to be careful in handling foreign investors coming to the country offering contracts without transparency. Participating in a debate organize...

The United States and Europe are poised to create the world’s largest Free Trade Area under the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The negotiations ...

Uganda seems not yet prepared to conclude the on- going EAC- EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) trade, analysts have observed. The Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) European Uni...

Without strong industries to create jobs and add value to raw materials, African countries risk remaining shackled by joblessness and poverty. Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana produce 5...

The co-chairs of a UN group tasked with drafting a blueprint for sustainable development goals (SDGs) released a list of 19 focus areas on Friday, following a year of discussions. ...

Investors from South Korea to Brazil and from India to South Africa are the new kids on the African block. Nor have old investors like the US, UK, France and Australia pulled out. ...

Ministers gathered at the 15th Regional Seminar of Labour-based Practitioners in Yaoundé called for increased participation of local enterprises and people in infrastructure devel...

Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies says a draft of the next iteration of the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) has been prepared. Minister Davies was addressing a post S...

A senior official at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) says the organization is encouraged by an agreement between heads of state from Uganda, the Democrat...

A financial analyst has expressed concern about about Namibia’s reliance on revenue from the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), saying the government needs to diversify its so...

Ministerial talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral economic partnership agreement once again failed to reach a basic agreement, mainly due to a confrontation between ...

The BRICS bloc of emerging economies will set up its development bank with a total capital of $100 billion within five years, but member countries still haven’t agreed on their s...

There may be a trillion dollars worth of minerals buried underneath the African continent – but information on those resources remains in many cases unknown, unmapped or otherwis...

The government has said that talks on its request to have the US government extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) are progressing well. Speaking in an exclusive int...

New measures aim to encourage trade and promote SA as an African investment hub We all know the stories of Shoprite, MTN and Game’s growing presence on the African continent. Bu...