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The selection: Thursday, 10 September Ground-breaking declaration to curb illegal timber trade in East and Southern Africa (TRAFFIC) The national forest agencies of Kenya, T...

The national forest agencies of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar and Mozambique on 9 September 2015 launched a historic declaration jointly to combat illegal timber trade in Eas...

The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) wants uninhibited autonomy granted to financial institutions and agencies that monitor illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the country. In an exclusive wi...

The main objective of this study is to offer an overall picture of support by multilateral and bilateral development partners to development country infrastructure. By presenting a...

The President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta has officially launched ‘Make it Kenya’, a new international brand campaign to promote investment. The campaign launch is part of a large...

The selection: Wednesday, 9 September Featured tweet, @ECA_Lopes: #DYK: over 19m people use M-PESA in Kenya via a network of over 81K agents. That's 43% of the country’s GDP goi...

Economic slowdown in China exacerbates strain for trading partners in Africa As the global oil-price slump passed its one-year anniversary in June, Angola’s President José...

Address by Kofi Annan, a former UN Secretary General, at the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy As we are meeting in Italy, we should perhaps recall the words of the Roman philosopher Plin...

While interventions to get the South African economy to grow is working, rapid movement is required to address challenges in the economy, says Trade and Industry Minister, Dr ...

Amid increasing concerns about rising income inequality and its negative economic and social impact, the World Economic Forum, the international institution for public-private coop...

Trade policies can have an impact on the climate change mitigation efforts of countries, just as policies for addressing climate change can influence trade among countries, says UN...

As part of continuing efforts to promote market confidence and business integrity, G20 Finance Ministers have endorsed a new set of G20/OECD corporate governance principles. The G...

The selection: Tuesday, 8 September Mauritius Declaration on Blue Economy (IORA) That the Member States of IORA will be guided by the following principles in our shared goal to f...

Service and industrial sectors registered sluggish growth in the second quarter of this year even though the overall performance of the economy is on track to achieve the project...

Trade and Customs experts from COMESA Member States begun meeting in Lusaka ahead of the Policy Organs meeting scheduled for December this year. This is the 31st Trade and Customs ...

The Government of Mauritius in collaboration with the Indian Ocean Rim Association hosted the First IORA Ministerial Blue Economy Conference, “Enhancing Blue Economy Cooperation ...

FAO publishes key findings of global forest resources assessment The world’s forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forest land is converted to agriculture and o...

The selection: Monday, 7 September On Wednesday, in Berlin: Africa Forum 2015 - 'Africa Beyond 2015' (OECD) Organised by the OECD Development Centre and the German Federal M...

The East African Community is pushing for a long-term preferential trade agreement with the United States that will remove uncertainties surrounding the Africa Growth and Oppo...

India’s Africa outreach in the form of the 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit has taken off with heads of state and government of 35 nations confirming their participation in the summ...