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East Africa’s commercial banks are pinning their hopes for growth in 2016 on technology and increased investment in  small and medium-sized enterprises as lenders avoid ra...

A scorching drought in Southern Africa that led to widespread crop failure could nudge African nations to finally embrace genetically modified (GM) crops to improve harvests and re...

West African exporters and traders have not taken advantage of over $140 billion market of the Economic Community of West African States as they show more preference for the Europe...

It is widely recognized that Africa is the continent most affected by issues of fragility that threaten to slow and even reverse development prospects of countries and entire regio...

The selection: Monday, 11 January 2016 Featured tweet, @kaushikcbasu: Lookout for the Jan 13 launch of our World Development Report 2016 Digital Dividends, analyzing M-Pesa, Aadha...

After four days of intense talks plus 24 hours of overtime, 162 ministers walked out of the trade talks in Nairobi having agreed on six things. All of them aim to improve the terms...

Speaking to a gathering of CEMAC Ministers in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 8 January 2016, IMF chief Christine Lagarde focused her remarks on how to sustain infrastructure investment in c...

Over 250 representatives from governments, UN agencies, NGOs, donors and private sector companies are gathering in February 2016 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ab...

The adoption of the ambitious post-2015 agenda centring on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September marks an opportune moment to suggest development policy solutions f...

Backyard motor mechanics, vegetable sellers, cigarette hawkers, hairdressers. They are the lifeline of South Africa, employing and keeping millions out of poverty. In Cape Town, t...

Rwanda’s nascent manufacturing sector has been hit hard by the nine-month crisis in Burundi that has narrowed the export market. The government has said that the crisis could fu...

There has been a soaring demand for commodities from Africa in recent years, which created a unique opportunity for the continent to plough this windfall into socio-economic develo...

The selection: Friday, 8 January 2016 SACU: minutes of the Fourth Trade Policy Review (WTO) The fourth joint Trade Policy Review of the Southern African Customs Union countries (...

Negotiations between South Africa and the United States over health issues related to meat imports were concluded on Wednesday, which should ensure the country remains a part of th...

South Africa faces one more hurdle over US meat imports before it can make a toast to remaining a part of the US African Growth Opportunity Act (Agoa). That is according to US Amb...

The fourth joint Trade Policy Review of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries, i.e. Botswana, the Kingdom of Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and the Kingdom of Swazil...

Nearly half of the world’s farmers are unbanked. This statistic is worrying given the evidence linking financial inclusion to poverty alleviation and since over 70 percent of the...

The start of 2016 leads us into a new era in international cooperation, but time is not on our side. The migration and refugee crisis, global and local terrorism, violence and frag...

Prices of major food commodities declined for the fourth year in a row in 2015 according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), averaging 19.1 per cent below their prev...

Briefing United Nations Member States on Thursday, 7 January on the widely varied and devastating impacts of the current El Niño weather phenomenon – which for months has sparke...