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In recent articles we have been talking about many issues ranging from the need to create enabling environments for investment, the infrastructure challenge for Africa, the financi...

UNCTAD and the Commonwealth Secretariat gather leading experts to discuss options to further advance trade in sustainable fisheries. A gathering of leading experts in sustainable ...

A series of reports regarding the use of carbon markets as a central means for achieving international climate goals were released as the seventh annual multi-stakeholder New York ...

Compared to China, the Indian economy is expected to grow faster, at 7.5%, and offers a large consumer market As China is confronting property market challenges, overcapacity in i...

The selection: Tuesday, 29 September Starting, Wednesday: WTO’s 2015 Public Forum India to host 53 African trade ministers (LiveMint) The fourth India-Africa trade ministers...

With advances made in their social indicators, African countries to focus on implementing the next generation of development goals Having made encouraging progress on the Millenni...

African leaders speaking at the UN General Assembly debate on 28 September noted that their countries were guided by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over the last 15 years,...

African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina delivered an impassioned speech to high-level leaders Sunday morning about why putting all of Africa on the power...

The TICAD VI High-Level pre-event was held on the margins of the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA, on 28 September 2015. The objective was to discuss Afri...

The fourth India-Africa trade ministers’ meeting will be held on 23 October prior to the summit scheduled for 26-30 October With an eye to boost its trade relationship with Afri...

Kenya has introduced special incentives to attract more investments to the country, but they could sound the death knell for export processing zones. Investors have exp...

East African Community members have pulled out of a proposed regional power sharing pool to avoid duplicating the intentions of a bigger initiative. The five EAC countries h...

Weak productive capacities and a lack of structural economic transformation continue to accentuate the “growth paradox” seen in least developed countries in which growth has li...

The selection: Monday, 28 September Mozambique’s conformity with trade facilitation agreements: preliminary baseline assessment (SPEED) The Mozambican government has called for...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hopes to pull Africa into a tighter hug with India when he hosts the continent’s leaders next month. But some of his guests may for now settle for a ...

Participants at a high-level event held today at the United Nations headquarters in New York, voiced strong support for the industrialization of Africa as a way forward to implemen...

Consider the fate of a small-scale trader in the Great Lakes region of Africa. She – for it is likely to be a she – works a small-scale farm in a border region with her family...

The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) executive secretary, Paulina Elago, this week said the trade landscape in Sacu shows that trade has been increasing with the volume of int...

China’s slowing economy is making the US a more attractive investor For the first time in more than 15 years, Zimbabwe’s 91-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, openly asked f...

High-level panel in New York seeks to build momentum for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Environment ministers and representatives from governments, international organiza...