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Director-General Roberto Azevêdo convened a meeting of all WTO members in Geneva on 17 September to report on the current state of play in negotiations on the remaining issues of ...

In July, President Obama visited Africa and shared an important message at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi and at the African Union in Addis Ababa. He said “As Afri...

What kind of international effort might be required to facilitate sustainable investment? The global challenges of poverty, sustainable growth, and climate change are being...

A blue print to get rid of Africa’s energy poverty by 2025 The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) unveiled its landmark initiative to solve Africa’s huge energy deficit by ...

China’s slowdown is rippling across Africa and these three nations are the most exposed, relying on demand from the Asian economy for almost half their exports: Republic of ...

Angola is a case in point: in the five years to 2013, trade with Ireland was up 782% The steady flow of migrants from Africa to Europe this year has painted a bleak picture of lif...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is eager to get countries to submit as soon as possible their action plans that will form the basis of the new universal climate change agreement...

Stakeholders in the transport and logistics service industry converged in Nairobi for a two-day regional dialogue on the economic and competitiveness challenges facing the sector i...

The selection: Thursday, 17 September Evolving banking trends in Sub-Saharan Africa: key features and challenges (IMF) This paper discusses key stylized facts and trends of banki...

Agriculture, forestry and fisheries (AFF) are widely recognised as sectors with significant job creation potential and with strategic links to beneficiation opportunities. However,...

Kenya has unveiled its first-ever blueprint to revive its manufacturing and industrial exports sector.  The decade-long plan, aptly christened Kenya’s Industrial Transforma...

The US and South Africa have reportedly made progress on the technical health and sanitary discussions related to the imports of poultry, pork, and beef meat from the United States...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, on 15 September announced that it committed $3.6 billion in new long-term financing and mobilizations in Sub-Saharan Africa during its 2015 f...

Banking in SSA has undergone very significant changes over the last two decades. Financial liberalization and related reforms, upgrades in institutional and more recently the expan...

With support from the World Bank Group, 17 African countries, members of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), adopted a Unified Insolvency...

The Focal Points for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from Capo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, countries for w...

The selection: Wednesday, 16 September Tomorrow, in Maputo: National content as a means to achieve inclusive growth CTA, the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique,...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, at a joint meeting of the Africa, Least-developed (LDC) and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) groups, on 14 September, said that the...

Only days ahead of the historic summit to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new UN study calls on regulators to implement proactive policies that build institutiona...

Concluding Remarks by Ambassador (Dr.) Amina C. Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, at the Informal Meeting of African Union (AU) Trade...