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Accountability, competitiveness and innovation key to making trade sustainable and inclusive The first day of the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) 2015, being held in Doha, Q...

The population in Africa is rapidly expanding, and by 2060 the region will hold an estimated 2.8 billion people. With the right policies and actions, countries in Sub-Saharan Afric...

Executive Summary Sourcing products and services from Africa is an option that makes sense to more and more firms, both international and African, each year. Though the spikes in ...

The recent economic trends and the challenges posed by the global crisis reinforce the importance of implementing strategies for development as opposed to leaving the economy to ma...

Xenophobia and regional economic integration are contradictory. Without the free flow of people, goods and services, there can never be regional integration or building a community...

The dynamic relationship between India and Africa is built on a shared future, common natural resources, similar demographics and large domestic markets. As both regions aim to...

The selection: Thursday, 22 October ECOWAS biometric ID cards due in 2016 (CitiFM) Ghana is spearheading the Economic Community of West African States’ plan to provide Biometri...

Govt will seek to push for early resumption of talks for proposed trade pacts with regional bodies in that continent India will play catch-up with China in attempts to reach out t...

Ghana is spearheading the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) plan to provide Biometric Identification Cards to the community’s citizens in 2016. This is to f...

The slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy has seen Chinese cross-border investment in Africa plunge. Beijing has invested just $568 million in greenfield projects and e...

A number of high level US investors are expected to attend the upcoming Kenya International Investment Conference (KIICO) on 23rd-25th November, 2015 in Nairobi, followin...

The selection: Wednesday, 21 October African, Caribbean and Pacific Ministers of Trade meeting yesterday in Brussels: selected updates Opening statement by Minister Joshua Setipa...

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has urged African countries to join hands in pushing for successful and favorable outcomes at the WTO Ministerial Conference – dub...

Delegates from across the globe are converging on Dakar, Senegal, for a landmark conference on agriculture that promises to yield one of the boldest initiatives ever taken on Afric...

Keynote address by Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza, Minister for East African Community Affairs (Rwanda), at the World Export Development Forum (WEDF) 2015, 20 October – Doha, Qatar...

Policymakers and business leaders meeting in Doha to discuss global trade, investment and development His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, Prime Ministe...

Emphasizing that “reliable and timely statistics and indicators are more important than ever,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 20 October urged all pa...

Opening statement by Hon. Joshua Setipa, Chairman of the ACP Ministers of Trade Meeting and Minister of Trade & Industry of Lesotho, delivered at the African, Caribbean an...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo attended an informal meeting of African Union trade ministers in Brussels on 20 October to discuss preparations for the WTO’s 10th Ministerial C...

In its latest commodity update, the World Bank is lowering its 2015 forecast for crude oil prices from $57 per barrel in its July report to $52 per barrel. The revis...