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“It is not just the adoption of this Recommendation, it’s actually putting it into practice that will matter,” said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder. The International Labour ...

The electronic platform for lodging of trade documents will be fully operational from July 1 as the State moves to boost efficiency and transparency in business transactions. Tr...

The WTO’s thirteenth trade monitoring report on G20 trade measures, issued on 15 June, shows a slight deceleration in the application of new trade-restrictive measures by G20 eco...

East Africa’s producers of sugar, maize, cement and other goods categorised as “sensitive” will be protected from intense competition from Egypt and other co...

African leaders converged in the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg for a New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Heads of State and Government Orientation Commit...

Statement by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, HE Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to the 25th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Governm...

African leaders gathered on 13 June 2015 at the Sandton Convention Centre in South Africa for the 33rd NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation meeting. Welcoming the ...

The selection: Monday, 15 June SADC-EAC-COMESA Tripartite Free Trade Area Legal Texts and Policy documents: updated resource page (tralac) The benefits of Africa's new Free Trade...

“Where a woman rules, streams run uphill” Ethiopian Proverb   2015 is the African Union declared “Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Age...

The African Union (AU) believes it could achieve its Agenda 2063 goal of a prosperous and technologically-advanced continent at peace with itself if leaders speed up the process of...

China has overtaken India to become Kenya’s largest source of imports in the first four months to April, latest data shows. The value of China’s exports to Kenya rose to Sh9...

A new World Bank Group report assessing the business environment and state of regulations for domestic firms in South Africa finds that local entrepreneurs face a wide arra...

Protecting jobs was a key highlight of the national budgets read simultaneously by EAC finance ministers on Thursday last week. In the budgets, the finance ministers announc...

Leaders from 26 African countries on 10 June 2015 signed an ambitious declaration in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to establish a wide-reaching free-trade zone across almost the entire ea...

The selection: Friday, 12 June Mozambique postpones signing up Tripartite FTA (StarAfrica) “There are questions that have to be studied and about the origin of imported product...

As the AUC prepares to implement the first phase of its Agenda 2063 through the 10-year strategic plan, capacity will be a critical enabler for the realization of Africa’s develo...

For once, the African Union Summit is going to have something to show for all its talk of regional integration. The Tripartite Free Trade Area, signed in Egypt on Wednesday, create...

South African Presidency on infrastructure development in Africa President Jacob Zuma looks forward to a fruitful discussion of the good progress made in implementing the African ...

Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario has refused to sign on behalf of his country the agreement setting up a tripartite free trade area (FTA) involving African thr...

A review of budgetary spend across East Africa countries from previous years shows that the infrastructure sector continues to be accorded priority due to its contribution to eco...