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In a little less than 7 days, more than 1400 participants will gather in Nairobi on 30-31 July 2015 to discuss how Africa can win its future under the theme “Re-imagini...

The selection: Wednesday, 22 July Featured commentary: Nexit - will Namibia be able to sustain rand parity? (The Namibian) Irrespective of what policy measures the governmen...

Africa continues to remain vastly unexplored, and making Africa’s most remote regions accessible for trade will not only promote prosperity in those regions, but also elevate the...

The “Africa rising” cliché, has generated a lot of views across the world. In the face of climate change, however, can Africa continue to grow? Africa’s steady GDP growth s...

On 30 June, WBG President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo launched The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty, a joint report which sets out...

The new edition of the Trade Capacity-Building (TCB) Resource Guide, published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has a special section dedicated to ...

Minister of Industry and Trade Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nour has announced plans to launch a website serving the Egyptian businessmen who search for investment opportunities in Africa. ...

In late 2013 the East African Community (EAC) countries (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) signed a joint protocol setting out the process and convergence criteria for ...

The selection: Tuesday, 21 July SADC, working towards agenda 2063 (The Herald) The advent of Agenda 2063 is an opportune moment to attend to systemic capacity needs of AU in...

Officials from the world’s largest emerging nations launched the New Development Bank (NDB) on Tuesday, the second of two new policy banks heavily backed by Beijing that are bein...

More than 50% of today’s international trade goes through regional trading arrangements. While trade is a critical component of regional integration, integration has several othe...

Greater collaboration between the private sector and SA Tourism is called for to increase SA’s global tourism market share, according to the latest SA Tourism Review. This is on...

The EU and Liberia on 16 July signed a deal concluding their bilateral negotiations on Liberia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Accession to the WTO is expected...

Miners under their umbrella association, the Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum (UCMP) have asked the government to remove the ban that was instituted on the exportation of unpr...

The recently signed African Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) agreement should incorporate financial co-operatives if its impact is to trickle down to the small sectors of the econ...

The selection: Monday, 20 July AU Trade Ministers meet in Nairobi today (tweets by @AMB_A_Mohammed) As part of my consultative efforts to prepare for MC10, I will be meeting a g...

South Africa has made impressive social progress over the past two decades, lifting millions of people out of poverty and broadening access to essential services like water, electr...

A customs union, a common market, a monetary union and eventually even a single currency are on the agenda Despite the slow pace of trade regime harmonisation in Africa, the vario...

South Africa would like to see more local companies expand into China. More than 60 South African companies had travelled to China in 2014 to engage with the country and collaborat...

Ahead of his official visit beginning from today [20 July] and at a time the Federal Government needs all the money it can muster to fund promises made during the last electioneeri...