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WTO members meeting as the General Council agreed on 30 November on a draft ministerial decision aimed at addressing the challenges faced by small economies. This draft decision ha...

Africa has much to offer the world in the battle against climate change, but fellow leaders at the Paris climate talks must also be prepared to do their bit The term “glacial pa...

Remarks at the meeting hosted by the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN): Africa Pavilion at COP21, Paris, 6 December 2015 Your Excellen...

About 95.9% of all the reported Non-Tariff Barriers to regional trade in COMESA have been resolved since the introduction of the online system of reporting, monitoring and eliminat...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the full version of the 2015 Emissions Gap Report, which found that the world was around halfway toward the emissions c...

The selection: Friday, 4 December Selected updates from the FOCAC 2015 summit: China announces $60 bn for African development plan (BRICS Post) Raw materials: Africa pushing to ...

The 13th African Regional Meeting, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 30 November to 3 December 2015, brought together ILO’s tripartite constituents – governments, em...

Ties between China and Africa are expected to strengthen as the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) summit commences today, 4 December 2015. The historic event, the first t...

Africa has launched an ambitious African Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI) as the continent’s a major contribution to Conference of Parties (COP21) taking place in Paris, Fran...

As we approach the start of negotiations for the establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), the African Union (AU) held a series of three meetings on enhancing i...

Less than two weeks remain before trade ministers begin their biennial conference in Nairobi, Kenya, with WTO members still deeply divided on specific deliverables and how to addre...

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) launched its flagship publication, the Industrial Development Report (IDR) 2016, during the Organization’s General ...

The 35th meeting of the COMESA Intergovernmental Committee opened in Lusaka on 3 December 2015 with a call on Member States to address bottlenecks that are hindering intra-regional...

The African Development Bank Transport Forum (ATF) 2015 ended on November 27, 2015, with the AfDB reiterating its support for transport development to ensure economic growth on t...

Many low- and lower-middle income countries are seeking to implement modern monetary policy frameworks that better anchor inflation and promote macroeconomic stability and growth, ...

Food security worsening in areas suffering from civil conflict and adverse weather conditions Major food commodity prices fell in November, reversing about half their rise in the ...

The selection: Thursday, 3 December Selected African trade and development conference alerts: In Addis, in January 2016: 'Citizens’ Continental Conference', to be held on the ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have prepared ...

Kenya is emerging as a tax-friendlier destination with businesses paying nearly 10 percentage points less tax than the continental average and spending less time filing returns tha...

Lagos, Nigeria, is the sixth largest city in the world. It is also the fastest growing and one of the most congested in the world. Commuting for Lagosians can be a serious challeng...