All News

Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made remarkable progress in its economic growth exceeding other low income and Sub-Saharan African countries, with real gross domestic product (G...

From 17-19 November 2015, the African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the Food Security Information Network (FSIN), a partner initiative between FAO, WFP and IFPRI, he...

The Ministerial Decision on Cotton of 7 December 2013 adopted by Ministers at the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali states, inter alia that: “5. In this context, we therefo...

WTO members exchanged views on two recent proposals for possible areas of agreement in agriculture at the WTO’s Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, at an informal meeting of agric...

Travelling the globe for the World Trade Organization (WTO), I get asked the same questions everywhere I go: what is my view of the global economy and what is the next big trend? I...

The selection: Monday, 23 November Starting today, in Durban: Conflict-induced migration in Africa - high-level expert group meeting (OSAA) The main objective of the meeting is t...

Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continent On 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development agenda known as the 2030 Agenda ...

Newly-signed tripartite free trade area to bring together EAC, COMESA and SADC blocs For several years, experts from the three largest trading blocs in Africa – the Southern Afr...

Held annually since 2010, the Ibrahim Forum aims to tackle specific issues that are of critical importance to Africa, and require both committed leadership and governance. Bringin...

Marking the Africa Industrialization Day, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is calling for job creation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for women and youth to era...

The Second INTERPOL-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference has ended with a blueprint outlining future efforts to enhance e...

An opportunity to emphasize the link between climate and development As African leaders, climate change experts and scholars understand it, the climate change agreement currently ...

The minerals and metals mining sector must do a better job at making a positive impact on local economies. Around the world local communities worry that mining projects will conta...

The technical meeting of the African Union Commission (AUC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on the convergence of Mo...

Overview of issues, challenges and debates The global trade and investment architecture (GTIA) plays a critical role in shaping the organisation and structure of international com...

Trade and Sustainable Development: Options for Follow-up and Review Trade is reflected throughout the draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of June 2015 and the May 2015...

The selection: Friday, 20 November Made in Africa: some new thinking for Africa Industrialization Day (Brookings) Today Friday, November 20 marks yet another “Africa Industrial...

Members of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) gave their full support this week to helping Africa achieve its target of 300GW of power from renewable energy by 2030, su...

The EU has joined forces with Brazil and five other farm exporting countries to propose tighter WTO rules on export subsidies and similar measures, one month ahead of the global tr...

This trade-monitoring report reviews trade-related developments during the period from 16 October 2014 to 15 October 2015. It is submitted by the Director-General to assi...