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Open Data – data that is freely available online for anyone to use and republish for any purpose – is becoming increasingly important in today’s development agenda driven by ...

Angola defended dialogue and consultation between policy makers and technicians of the financial and monetary sectors of the African States at a meeting of regional finance ministe...

Intra-African trade increased by 50 per cent to $61 billion between 2010 and 2013, according to recent data released by the African Development Bank. The rise is attributed ...

Even as recent trade wars in the East African Community have mostly featured Kenya and Uganda over sugar exports, Kampala has for the past two months been locked in a dispute with ...

Leaders of African countries and China have vowed to enhance exchanges. Non-governmental organizations on both sides will boost people to people relations at different levels. The...

The selection: Friday, 28 August Raising voices for women cross border traders in West Africa: report (WCBT) The “Raising Voices for Women Cross Border Traders in West Africa P...

How the depreciating yuan and plummeting global commodity prices threaten to undermine investment in African people and businesses On August 24th, or what is now being referred to...

Academics, researchers, tax administrators, students, tax practitioners, consultants and decision-makers on fiscal and tax policy in Africa will gather in Cape Town from 2 to 4 S...

The “Raising Voices for Women Cross Border Traders in West Africa Project” seeks to map women’s organisations in the ECOWAS sub-region and their potential to support the capa...

A new report on Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Africa has called for a policy overhaul in the mining sector for inclusive and active participation of women. The...

The office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG) and the Department for Agriculture and Agro-industry (OSAN) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a new report, “Econom...

The suspense over the much-awaited decision on another 10-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – often called the United States’ General Sy...

The selection: Thursday, 27 August Starting today, in Luanda: African Caucus of finance ministers, central bank governors The African Caucus Meeting is meant to seek a common gro...

Remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman at the Opening Ceremony of the 2015 U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (AGOA Forum) in Libreville...

From 27-28 August in Luanda, the Republic of Angola will host the Meeting of the Ministers of Finance and Governors of the Central African Banks, the African Caucus, with the aim o...

A week-long workshop, convened by UNCTAD and the African Union Commission, is underway to train services trade negotiators from Anglophone African countries on related negotiations...

The ClimDev Africa Special Fund (CDSF) launched its first project in Ethiopia on August 3 to help the country cope with, and build resilience to, climate change by e...

A better agreement on agricultural exports will be Kenya’s priority when the world converges in Nairobi for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit this December. In a m...

Kisumu has received a major boost in its bid to become a regional transport hub after President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged to revive its port in fresh efforts to expand trade with East...

The selection: Wednesday, 26 August Opposites attract? Bringing the trade and regulatory communities together (ICTSD) Where does all this take me? The WTO, its valiant efforts in...