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On August 6, 2015, SADC Secretariat and the University of Botswana (UB) co-organised a public lecture on Regional Economic Development and Integration in the SADC Region at the Lib...

Power Africa’s Annual Report highlights the progress the Presidential Initiative has made in its second year, the lessons learned, and the roadmap for the future. The report high...

The House of Representatives on Thursday frowned at the ban on the exportation of some Nigeria’s agricultural produces for allegedly containing high level of unauthorised pestici...

Infrastructure investments of $55.6 billion anticipated Kenya is set to become a hub for intra-regional trade in Africa, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. ...

The less Africa sees of looting-oriented Foreign Direct Investment, the better. “Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is always prefaced with the two words ‘much needed,’” my c...

The selection: Friday, 14 August Featured infographics: The future of the world’s population in 4 charts (World Bank) CFTA Soapbox: What legal format for the Continental FTA? ...

The dialogue between Mozambican private sector and the government which was formalised about two decades ago is about to enter a new phase with the signing of a memorandum of under...

A Bill seeking to allow for seamless electronic transactions among EAC partner states enters a crucial phase next week when the regional Assembly resumes its sessions in Kampala. ...

Within hours of President Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta’s agreement on the “least” cost Northern route for a joint crude oil export pipeline, cracks st...

Most people probably don’t think of Kenya as an innovation and technology hub, but in 2007 it became the launching pad for M-Pesa, a transformative mobile phone-based platform fo...

Joint submission by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the Stop Stock Outs Project (SSP) on the out-of-cy...

When the final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was released recently, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the campaign as the “most successful anti-pover...

African people, both on the African continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history or heritage, but a common destiny. This sense of interconnected pasts and futur...

The selection: Thursday, 13 August Strengthening citizen participation on matters affecting regional integration in Sub-Saharan Africa (NANGO) The SADC Treaty Article 16A provide...

CUTS-Nairobi held project inception meetings under ‘Integrating the Voice of CSOs in Regional Integration Process in Eastern and Southern Africa’ (IVORI-ESA) project in Nairobi...

Opening remarks of the ARSO President at the 52nd ARSO Council Meeting, 10-11 August 2015, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme “The rol...

Endemic poverty and high levels of unemployment are the greatest challenges facing Africa due to widespread corruption and illicit financial flows, says Southern Africa Trade Union...

South Africa must open its markets to US poultry or risk losing its benefits from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the president of the US’ National Chicken Council...

The COMESA Treaty envisages a fully integrated, internationally competitive regional community within which goods, services, capital and labour are free to move across national bor...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans not to scoff at the government’s close relationship with China because China was bound to be the biggest economy in ...