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The selection: Thursday, 3 September The inaugural African Tax Research Network congress has started in Cape Town. Follow the discussion on twitter, #ATRN2015 How is Africa prepa...

THE KAMPALA RESOLUTIONS ON MANUFACTURING 1. The 1st Manufacturing Business Summit was held in Kampala Uganda at Speke Resort, Munyonyo on 1-2 September 2015. The Business sum...

The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will guide global development for a generation after they are formally adopted by Heads of States and Governments at the end of this mo...

Farming projects along lines of transportation are being promoted as opportunities to attract investment and increase food security. At a recent event in Nairobi, early-stage...

The selection: Tuesday, 2 September Inaugural speech: Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina (AfDB) Five priorities will shape our work at the Bank under my Presidency as we advance the implemen...

Kenya will use the December World Trade Organisation’s ministerial conference in Nairobi to push for global liberalisation of trade in services, Foreign Affairs and Internat...

In the two decades since South Africans worked together to transform their political landscape and usher in a new democracy, the country has made remarkable progress. In parti...

With gross domestic product increases of at least fivefold since 2000, Africa’s growth story has been the good news narrative of recent years. As if little could derail the rise...

Large infrastructure gaps, climate change, high speed of urbanization, and a youthful and rapidly growing population will influence the future pace of growth Most African countrie...

“We must light up and power Africa – as a Bank we will launch a new deal on energy for Africa” Former Nigerian Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina formally assumed office ...

Africa-focused economists caught off-guard on China weakness. Disappointing growth in Africa’s two biggest economies has highlighted the role of China in the expansion of recent...

In his speech in Costa Rica during his current official visit to Central America, WTO Director General, Roberto Azevêdo, talked about the importance of the early ratification of t...

The selection: Tuesday, 1 September Donald Kaberuka, AfDB President 2005-2015 (AfDB) Sovereign wealth funds can ease Africa risks, new AfDB head says (Bloomberg) Africa rising: ...

Is it possible that Michael Froman can succeed where both Leonardo DiCaprio and David Beckham have not? Maybe – if the job is saving the rhino, whose pop...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for July 2015 that recorded a trade deficit of R0.40 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswana, ...

Trade between China and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been asymmetric and characterised by China’s importing mainly mining and other extraction products from SSA, and the lat...

ACP countries were required for the first time to negotiate reciprocal, though asymmetric trade agreements, with a major – and developed – trading partner, the EU, giving birth...

Strong regional economic communities (RECs) are the key to Africa’s long term goal of creating a vibrant, united and prosperous continent. South Africa’s High Commissioner to ...

There is no one ‘big’ answer to how growth can be generated; instead we must break down the question, piece-by-piece, in search of the many smaller answers that together can pr...

With just weeks left to the signing of the new United Nations development goals, Kenya is coming up with new data collection and dissemination systems that could prove critical in ...