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Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi stand between the region and a competition authority that was to kick off in July, after they failed to submit names of commissioners to sit on the boa...

The selection: Tuesday, 20 October Featured tweet, @AMB_A_Mohammed: African countries must closely coordinate with and give timely guidance to negotiators in Geneva (one of a seri...

Economic stagnation and lacklustre recovery from the global economic crisis had revealed dysfunction in international organizations and the need to reform unequal power structures,...

The Nairobi summit of the Northern Corridor Integration Project countries, of host countries Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan, discussed a range of issues regarding the imple...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are expanding their operations in response to growing food insec...

The United States vowed on Monday to press ahead with a review that could cut South Africa’s access to trade benefits after the country missed a key deadline for resuming US poul...

For the first time, an unprecedented alliance of Heads of State, city and state leaders, with the support of heads of leading companies, have joined forces to urge countries and co...

Tony Elumelu presented the following paper at a conference organised by Liberation newspapers for encouraging new thinking and perspectives about Africa at the Liberation Forum, he...

Over 160 representatives of Africa’s judiciary and law enforcement authorities agreed on 16 October 2015 to ensure the enforcement and practical implementation of environmental l...

Reaching agreement on the 17 sustainable development goals and climate change is just the beginning. They still have to be delivered and, until they are, we still have to adapt to ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo exemplifies the difficulty that many developing countries have in transforming mineral wealth into inclusive growth. The IMF’s latest annual...

Angola and Mozambique are on the list of African countries with better prospects for economic growth and business opportunities, according to a study by the Nielsen consultancy tha...

The selection: Monday, 19 October The 133rd IPU Assembly is underway in Geneva. Two profiled documents: Promoting child nutrition in the SADC region, Steering committee of th...

The dramatic drop in global poverty over the last two decades has been called the “best news in the world today” by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. But in sub-Saha...

The infrastructure throughout sub-Saharan Africa requires additional investments of billions per year to be brought up to par. In particular, the region’s ports are a bottleneck ...

Framework for Action seeks coherent humanitarian and development efforts The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has approved the world’s first global agreement involving all...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has officially joined the Northern Corridor Integration Projects Initiative (NCIPI) during the just concluded eleventh heads of state summit ...

Speakers praised the African Union’s ambitious 50-year “Agenda 2063”, which together with its first 10-year implementation plan, the Addis Ababa funding scheme, and the ...

The number of ratifications for the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has increased sharply since the middle of the year, WTO members were told 13 October at the final 2015 me...

How best to ensure socially-responsible trade in the face of long and complex global value chains? Supply-chain due diligence is increasingly becoming a business reality and a reg...