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Over the past several years, bio-fuels have become a bone of contention. For some, a renewable energy source produced from organic matter amounts to a magic wand in the fight again...

The President of the United States of America Barack Obama will on Tuesday 28 July 2015, pay an official visit to the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. President...

Experts from Nigeria and the international community would converge on Abuja this week to chart a course for the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA). The Economic Community of W...

The United Nations General Assembly on 27 July 2015 endorsed the new global action agenda for financing sustainable development adopted two weeks ago by a major UN conference, and&...

EALA wants stakeholders in the EAC to take advantage of the extra-ordinary opportunities that spur up with the integration process to make it a reality. EALA Speaker Rt. Hon Danie...

The selection: Monday, 27 July Deepening the US-Africa trade relationship: factsheet (The White House) The United States plans to work with Congress to expand the Trade Africa In...

World Trade Organisation members representing major exporters of information technology products agreed on 24 July 2015 to eliminate tariffs on more than 200 such products. In a m...

Ministers and other high level officials from 46 countries made headway on the politically thorny issues that have stymied the UN negotiations to finalise the first-ever universal ...

Remarks by United States President Barack Obama at the 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on 25 July 2015 Thank you so much, President Kenyatta, for yo...

President Obama has prioritized promoting U.S. trade with and investment in Africa, building Africa’s trade capacity, and extending preferential access to the U.S. market for Afr...

African countries have been urged to demand new global trade rules during the forthcoming World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference to be held in Nairobi in December to ensur...

To directly deliver on-the-spot authoritative advice on trade and development issues to policymakers and all stakeholders in Africa, UNCTAD has opened a regional office in Addis Ab...

Member states of the tripartite free trade area have until December to ratify the TFTA agreement before it comes into force in January. The trade agreement, establishing a...

The selection: Friday, 24 July Changes in foreign investment in South Africa: a ‘Friends’ perspective (tralac) This paper provides an update on South Africa’s foreign ...

The Economic and Social Council concluded its coordination and management session this afternoon with the adoption of a draft decision on international cooperation in tax matters a...

This report is the result of a series of Expert Round Tables held in March 2015, the first phase of a two-stage consultation process launched by the European Union (EU) on ACP-EU r...

Special report examining the Illicit outflows of money from the continent and the need for a global response to stem it. Africa loses approximately US$50 billion annually through ...

On June 17, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Seychelles. Macroeconomic outcomes remain solid, and mos...

Mauritius has become the 15th member country in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) to sign its national Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program...

Trade negotiators tentatively agreed on Saturday to eliminate tariffs on an array of technology products valued at $1 trillion worth of global commerce. The breakthrough toward th...