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The selection: Tuesday, 6 October World Bank/IMF 2015 Annual Meetings: A guide to webcast events, Event: State of the Africa region, AfDB delegation to strengthen alliances at 201...

We, the G-33 members, strongly renew the long-standing calls for global trade reforms that address inequities and imbalances in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) so ...

How well is your country governed? This is the question the Ibrahim Index of African Governance seeks to answer. This year’s results are bad news for the continent as a whole, an...

The Chair of the agriculture negotiations, Ambassador Vangelis Vitalis of New Zealand, updated WTO members on the current state of the negotiations on 2 October at a meeting open t...

As difficult global conditions combined with domestic challenges buffet many African countries, Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth will continue to slow in 2015 to 3.7 percent ...

SADC becoming a key player in the international trend towards development of renewable energy resources and energy efficiency. Renewables now account for 23.5% of generation An un...

AUC SPS Related-Activities The African Union Commission (AUC) organized the Inaugural Conference of the Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Agriculture, Rural Development, Wa...

In what could become the most significant foreign-policy legacy of President Barack Obama’s administration, negotiators from 12 nations inked the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),...

The selection: Monday, 5 October The 2015 Ibrahim Index of African Governance launches today Global Forum on Competition: does competition kill or create jobs? Contributions from...

Major hurdles remain in goal to end poverty by 2030 The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to under 10 percent of the global population ...

Highlights from the Fifth African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), 29 September-2 October 2015, Lusaka, Zambia More than 600 men, women and youth attended the AGRF 2015. Over 200 ca...

Mounting fears of another slowdown in the global economy call for bolder policy responses. Trade and investment are a case in point. The latest WTO forecasts suggest 2015 will be ...

Experts meeting on trade in sustainable fisheries come up with a set of concrete recommendations to halt a looming catastrophe for the millions of people who depend on fish for foo...

The current growth in agricultural production, especially in Africa, could mean that in the next ten years world prices for food will remain flat or even decline, according to a se...

Opening remarks by Amb. Olawale Maiyegun, AU Director of Social Affairs, at the Labour Migration Statistics Validation Workshop – 29th September-1st October 2015, Addis Abab...

The WTO marked on Day 3 of the Public Forum the 20th anniversary of its founding with the launch of a new book looking back at its two decades of achievements, its setbacks, and th...

Analysis turns tables on “ticking time bomb” narrative to reveal world’s largest youth population is as important to African agriculture as seeds and soil A hard hitting rep...

The selection: Friday, 2 October The effects of the Tripartite Free Trade Area: towards a new economic geography in Southern, Eastern and Northern Africa? (CREDIT) This stud...

South Africa is fighting to retain duty-free access for exports to the U.S. worth as much as $1.7 billion a year in a dispute that pits farmers in the two nations against each othe...

Economic growth prospects for Africa over the next 50 years present both opportunities and challenges for port terminal operators, writes Transnet Port Terminals chief executive Ka...