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Though the industry is expanding 45,000qt of cotton was imported last fiscal year The UK government is funding a 15-year cotton strategy for Ethiopia with intent to have a new ins...

The pointed talking-up of China as an alternative to the West has been trendy in an Africa dazzled by Beijing’s flashing overtures, reminiscent of a man planning t...

The climate change agreement world leaders are expected to sign in December “has to take us to a less than 2 degree global warming path because that is the ultimate test of the w...

The selection: Tuesday, 25 August Call for removal of NTBs as COMESA embarks on the 2016-2020 MTSP (COMESA) Assistant Secretary General Dr Kipyego Cheluget says the regional orga...

Ondangwa Airport has undergone a major facelift and upgrade and now boasts a modern building and new terminal, constructed at a cost of N$84 million. The upgrading of the Ondangwa...

This publication, prepared by SARDC for the 35th SADC Summit in Botswana on 17-18 August 2015, provides a public record of SADC activities and achievements in the past year, includ...

The 2015 Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) Report and Scorecard evaluates access to and usage of affordable financial services across 21 geographic...

Full regional integration and the quest to have a seamless flow of goods and services will be achieved in the COMESA region once the Members states commit themselves to eliminate o...

A high level team visiting Liberia from the World Trade Organization says Liberia accession to WTO will greatly benefit small businesses and consumers who are unable to lobby or ne...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled over the weekend to Abuja, Nigeria, where he met state Governors who, he said, can play a “fundamental role” in...

The official statements are clear: Regional leaders and policymakers want to make the 26-member Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) the main stepping stone towards the grad...

Trade, regional integration and governance were some of the key subjects that took centre stage at the Meles Zenawi Foundation’s inaugural symposium on Friday, August 21 in Kigal...

The selection: Monday, 24 August The African Democratic Developmental State symposium: selected updates Replacing role of the state with externally funded NGOs left Africa in pov...

East Africa stands to make about $2.6 billion annually from Kenya’s northern transport corridor, new sea ports and other mega infrastructure facilities upon completion, global ...

Africa’s rise challenges the imagination. During the last decade, Sub-Saharan Africa was home to six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies. During the next five years, t...

When the world meets in New York next month to adopt a bold new vision for sustainable development, a key area of concern will be the globe’s burgeoning population, which is pr...

A presentation by Juliet Wanjiku from the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for East and Central Africa (ReSAKSS-ECA), shows that effective trackin...

A speech by the British High Commissioner on the subject of the UK’s Africa Policy Good afternoon. It’s a pleasure to be here at the University of Ghana, for the first time in...

The WTO could not just be a trade forum and it had to keep development in mind, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Nirmala Sitharaman said in an exclusive intervie...

The selection: Friday, 21 August Today in Kigali: The African Democratic Developmental State symposium   Today in Zanzibar: Currency stability to dominate EAC central bank g...