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The New Development Bank (NDB) launched by the BRICS have been “welcomed by all”, South African President Jacob Zuma has asserted. The new lender is expected to strengthen the ...

The selection: Friday, 7 August On Monday: the Northern Corridor Transit Transport Coordination Authority Policy Organs will meet in Kinshasa. The impact of Free Trade Agreements...

Niger has become the twelve WTO member and the first LDC (Least developed country) to ratify the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Niger’s ambassador, Ado Elhadji Abou, pre...

In comments submitted on Wednesday night, the National Pork Producers Council asked the Obama administration to withdraw, or at least limit, preferential trade benefits for South A...

President Jacob Zuma says trade has increased by 70% between BRICS member countries over the past couple of years and that South Africa stands to benefit from the BRICS Development...

This Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) addresses two questions through a review of the literature on free trade agreements (FTAs) that gives particular attention to impact assessment...

As Egypt officially opened on Thursday its “New Suez Canal,” it is broadly believed that this project, conjoined with China’s Belt and Road initiatives, will inject strong im...

The Nigerian president’s sudden, unexpected and seemingly unilateral decision to ban nearly 100 oil tankers from the country’s waters has sown confusion in the operations of Af...

The selection: Thursday, 6 August Sh850bn Suez Canal opens today (Business Daily) Thousands of regional dignitaries and millions of Egyptians gather Thursday as the country opens...

As new players from the emerging economies enter the aid arena, the thinking that underpins much development cooperation needs to change International development has reached a cr...

Governors and various stakeholders have welcomed the launch of policy guidelines for the drafting of County Revenue Laws saying these guidelines if well implemented would help faci...

Kenya has fallen behind Tanzania and Rwanda as the top investment destination in East Africa, dampening the country’s ambition to become a regional leader in tapping foreign dire...

The overall quality of government policies and institutions designed to spur development and reduce poverty in African countries remained steady in 2014, with the greatest progress...

The selection: Wednesday, 5 August Is the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report at odds with how business is done in the developing world? (Wall Street Journal) The Doing Bu...

Since the launch of the Tripartite Free Trade Area in June this year, a voluminous body of scholarly work has been generated by many tertiary institutions and by international bodi...

The World Bank is in the process of reviewing, updating and strengthening its environmental and social policies that serve to protect vulnerable people and the environment in World...

ICT can radically transform the market for financial products and services for poor Africans The linkages between digital financial services (DFS) and the development agenda in Af...

The chair of talks designed to liberalise environmental goods trade will compile and circulate a draft consensus list of products slated for tariff cuts in the coming weeks, trade ...

Nigeria must urgently reform the way it sells oil to prevent Africa’s biggest crude producer losing billions of dollars of revenue, according to a new report. The approach of th...

The ambitions of a young Ugandan entrepreneur to expand his coffee processing business will soon be within reach. East Africa’s accelerated integration process is opening up poss...