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Egypt has pulled out of the grand East African regional power pool until its concerns over the use of the Nile waters have been addressed. In the recent Council of Ministers...

The African continent delivers some of the best value in the world for every dollar spent on exploration. Even so, African mining companies have yet to fully tap the continent’s ...

President Barack Obama is close to signing into law a Bill that would mean more United States government involvement in helping to provide electricity in sub-Saharan Africa “It ...

A question of capacity Discussions for the UN Agenda 2030 have set high expectations for domestic resource mobilisation as a self-sustaining development finance strategy. Agenda 2...

Representatives of mining communities have called for mine executives to be sued in their personal capacity for environmental damage done to communal land. The representatives tol...

Over the last 15 years, the expansion of mobile technology into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been unprecedented. Recent data by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) sho...

The selection: Monday, 8 February 2016 Profiled trade and investment policy discussions: Tomorrow, in Pretoria: What next for EU‐SA trade relations?  Thursday, in Na...

Almost unnoticed, the world has reduced poverty, increased incomes, and improved health more than at any time in history. The headlines on any given day suggest a world under sieg...

South Africa has ranked number 30 out of 56 countries in terms of its domestic policies supporting global innovation. The global technology think tank, Information Technology and ...

The negative impact of legislation like the investment promotion protection bill and the expropriation bill on foreign investment figures in South Africa will only become visible i...

DHL whitepaper highlights unprecedented market conditions, forcing industry to adjust supply chains New research from DHL, the world’s leading logistics provider, shows that a l...

The world is facing a political, economic, moral and social crisis as governments and communities struggle to provide effective solutions for the unprecedented numbers of people fl...

The adoption of the 2030 Agenda – which places people and the planet at the centre of global development – presents new challenges and opportunity for the United Nations Commis...

Top donor aid recipients According to data from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – a consortium of 34 donor countries – official development ass...

The selection: Friday, 5 February 2016 Sub-Saharan Africa: The distribution of consumption expenditure - inequality among all Africans (World Bank) This paper uses a set of natio...

This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of consumption expenditure among individuals during 1993 to 2008. The anal...

Both emerging market and advanced economies need a partnership for growth to promote faster and more sustainable convergence of income levels, said IMF chief Christine Lagarde in a...

The Regional Assembly is urging Partner States to “up their game” in sensitisation activities, particularly when it comes to the Common Market Protocol in order to raise awaren...

EALA on 3 February 2016 debated and approved the EAC Annual Report 2013/14. The Assembly, meanwhile, urged the Council of Ministers to ensure further improvements in future subsequ...

The global Food Price Index, calculated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on a monthly basis, fell in January, slipping 1.9 percent below its level in t...