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On June 10, 2015, at the 25th African Union Summit in Cairo, Egypt, African leaders signed the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (TFTA). Prior to its signing, the agreement had been ...

The selection: Wednesday, 12 August First Annual Southern Africa Business Forum: Savuti Declaration The Southern Africa Business Forum proposes [inter alia] the following as a wa...

The Savuti Declaration details the findings of the Southern Africa Business Forum and commitment of the private sector to act towards regional economic integration in the...

Kenya is set to cede regulation of its sugar industry to a regional agency in the latest bid to end a long running market access war with Uganda. The joint agency, described by ...

After missing the 2010 deadline, the South African Development Community (SADC) will now negotiate a new target date for the transformation of the organisation into a Customs Union...

Egypt’s Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade is looking to double its exports of agricultural crops and is looking to African markets to realise this goal. Through free trade ...

Document prepared for the sixty-second session of the Trade and Development Board, to be held on 14 to 25 September 2015 in Geneva The present document summarizes the main aspects...

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says government has embarked on a mission to take the country’s industrialisation to the next level by ensuring that the Industr...

Document prepared for the sixty-second session of the Trade and Development Board, to be held on 14 to 25 September 2015 in Geneva Paragraph 18(d) of the Doha Mandate of the thirt...

The selection: Tuesday, 11 August SADC: Time to open up (Tutwa) To many, the convening of the Southern Africa Business Forum may not sound like much but it represents an importan...

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the East African region to harness its “shared identities” as the strongest asset to develop its economy. Addressing the Uga...

A total of $9.3 billion in ‘impact-investment’ funds have flowed into East Africa over the past five years, with almost half of that amount being disbursed in Kenya, according ...

The South African cabinet has approved the publishing of the Border Management Agency (BMA) Bill for public comment. The Bill seeks to establish a BMA that will balance secure cro...

Illicit trade is a global menace that seriously affects both the public and private sectors within the COMESA region and all other parts of the world. It undermines the concept of ...

The prohibition of the acceptance of foreign currency cash deposits by deposit money banks announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week will ultimately ring-fence the N...

The East Africa Community (EAC) member states are set to integrate all their custom systems into one platform in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda to enhance regional bon...

When Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa completes his one-year tenure as president of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly next month, among the th...

If, as has been observed, demography is destiny, this will be the African century. Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa are on the cusp of a demographic transition – the years w...

It has become a regular feature of policy statements in the minerals sector throughout much of Africa to exhort mining companies to “beneficiate” or “add value” to the mine...

The COMESA Business Council (CBC) working with the private sector has launched a technical capacity strengthening project to empower Small and Medium Entrepreneurs in standards and...