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Senior officials and experts from member states of the East African Community (EAC), yesterday, met in Kampala ahead of the 10th Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIP) Summi...

Illicit financial flows (IFFs), stemming from crime, corruption, and tax evasion, have an outsized impact on the world’s poorest countries, according to a new study released on 3...

The selection: Wednesday, 3 June The WEF Africa conference started this morning in Cape Town: some links  Africa faces mounting risks to keep rising growth record ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa kicks off in Cape Town today, giving South Africa an opportunity to make its investment case to an audience of global and African business ...

Africa was cheated out of US$11 billion in 2010 through just one of the tricks used by multinational companies to reduce tax bills, according to new Oxfam report, ‘Africa: Rising...

The Burundi Revenue authority (OBR) has recorded a 16 per cent tax decline for the last financial year. The unrest that has hit the country since April has only made things ...

South Africa’s citrus exports to the European Union (EU) increased by 9% in value last year despite having been hit by the troublesome citrus black spot fungus (CBS), said EU amb...

African nations are facing mounting risks as they seek to extend two decades of rapid economic growth. While the continent has benefited from increasing investor inflows from abro...

To stem the ever-rising threat of counterfeit products on the East African Community (EAC) market, governments in the bloc are enacting tough laws and stringent measures against th...

On 28th May 2015 ICF and the African Development Bank held a joint event to promote investment climate reforms in Africa. The event, titled “Investment Climate: The Journey so Fa...

The selection: Tuesday, 2 June COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Sectoral Ministerial Committee: Statement (SADC) The Joint Meeting of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Sectoral Minis...

Policy makers around the world continue to balance the demand for stringent oversight of the financial industry with the need for a well-developed sector that supports productive f...

The Joint Meeting of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Sectoral Ministerial Committee took place on 29th-30th May 2015 in Dar es Salaam. The purpose of the meeting was to consider pro...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo convened a meeting of all WTO members in Geneva today (1 June) to discuss the current state of play in negotiations on the work programme to advan...

East African community countries have been urged to come up with policies that support small farmers to participate effectively in the Agriculture sector where they contribute abou...

The selection: Monday, 1 June The AERC Biannual Research Workshop is taking place this week in Arusha: Presentations from the AERC's capital flight workshop,  AERC confe...

A regional body to be charged with enforcing laws that protect and promote free and fair competition among businesses with cross-border presence will be operational as from June. ...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released trade statistics for April 2015 that recorded a trade deficit of R2.51 billion. This figure includes trade data with Botswana,...

The Zambian Government together with the United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developing Countries, Landlocked developing Countries and Small Island Developin...

Preparations to launch the Grand Free Trade Area that will bring together half of the African continent into one common market are complete. The momentous occasion will take place ...