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Africa is rallying behind India in its push to protect a controversial patent policy on medicine, to ensure that poor countries still have access to cheaper generic drugs manufactu...

Zimbabwe, in an economic quagmire for nearly two decades, has begun to implement economic reforms that, if continued, could help the nation improve the quality of life for the majo...

The selection: Friday, 13 November EU-Africa Valletta Summit: download the Action Plan, Political Declaration    WTO negotiators start to stake out shape of N...

The European Union’s efforts to stem the flow of refugees from Africa was undermined on 12 November by member states who failed to match EU money for a €1.8 billion trust fund ...

Negotiators have tabled a flurry of proposals on the text of the WTO’s ministerial declaration, ahead of the organisation’s ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital city of...

The African Union Commission (AUC) engaged the Private Sector on the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations processes during a three-day Conference of the African Private ...

Minister of Economic Development, Mr Ebrahim Patel, officially opened the 4th BRICS International Competition Conference on 12 November 2015 in Durban. The Conference is convened u...

The Twenty-First Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) takes place in Paris at the end of November through to mid-December...

Latest World Energy Outlook also sees clear signs that the energy transition is underway, but warns strong direction is needed from Paris climate summit An extended period of lowe...

‘It is time for a Great Green Wall in the Southern African Dry lands’ SADC Experts of Environment and Natural Resources agreed with the decision of the 1st Specialised Technic...

Citing an enormous loss of $100 to $240 billion dollars in uncollected global corporate income tax revenues each year, Oh Joon, President of the United Nations Economic and Social ...

The selection: Thursday, 12 November Today, in Windhoek: SACU heads of state and government meeting In Harare, on 26 November: Zimbabwe's 2016 national budget Featured infograph...

Despite popular opinion, Africa has been very active on the international trading stage, though results have been disappointing. At the ministerial conference in Bali, Indonesia in...

If the upcoming WTO 10th Ministerial Conference should fail, the biggest losers would be those that have no responsibility for the current deadlock: the LDCs and Africa. They ...

Japan and the United States lead a small group of nations that are driving innovation in 3D printing, nanotechnology and robotics, three frontier technologies that hold the potenti...

A “draft final list” of potential products slated for tariff cuts as part of an effort to secure an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) will soon be circulated to participating...

The African Trade Information Sharing Portal initiative – brainchild of Ghana’s Hon Minister Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah – has been upheld by H.E. Anthony De Bono, Malta’s forme...

Job creation through private sector led investment will be critical for sustainable and inclusive growth and to lift Somalis out of poverty over the medium term. However, the count...

This special edition of the Economic Report on Nigeria aims at serving a dual purpose. First, it serves as an instrument for engaging the new Administration of the Federal Governme...

The selection: Wednesday, 11 November Dueling with Lions: playing the new game of business success in Africa (BCG) As Africa’s economy has risen in recent years, so have valuat...