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Thirty road fund administration managers from six countries in the southern African region are meeting in Namibia’s capital Windhoek on Monday where they are being hosted by Road...

African heads of State and decision-makers will convene at the International Conference on Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora in Africa in Brazzaville, Republic o...

Address by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF at the U.S. Ex-Im Bank Conference in Washington, DC, 23 April 2015 Good afternoon. I would like to thank Susan ...

A new report from the World Bank, “Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa’s Infrastructure,” examines climate change impacts on hydropower, irrigation and electricity exp...

If Africa’s natural resources are to benefit its people, petroleum and mining contract negotiations can no longer be limited to technical experts but must be broadened to include...

Lawyers say South Africa should not be supporting a planned new regional court that ‘disregards the human rights of individuals’. In a move of crucial importance for human rig...

Nearly 80 percent of American companies surveyed by two human rights groups failed to meet a U.S. rule requiring they monitor whether their products contain minerals from war-torn ...

The agriculture sector has shown its support for efforts to combat attacks on foreign nationals. Stakeholders on Wednesday met with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fis...

A lack of rain in the middle of last season caused Seydou Diarassouba’s sorghum crop to fail. Now the emaciated 43-year old farmer must wait for the next rains, due in late June...

Three key United Nations agencies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their support for developing countries as they implement the World Trade Organizatio...

The EU-AU Joint Session on Infrastructure for the Minerals Sector took place on the 19th and 20th of March 2015 within the framework of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) and foll...

How did a Kenyan dreadlock designer obtain the start-up capital to go from street vendor to store owner? As Leora Klapper, Lead Economist in the Research Department, explained, thi...

At the opening of the Africa-Asia Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged rich countries to help the developing world with no political strings attached and fulfill...

It is unlikely that Uganda will produce oil by 2018, Bank of Uganda has indicated. In the monetary policy report for April 2015, the central bank says “the global oil price outl...

The World Bank Group forecasts that economic growth for African countries will slow in 2015 to 4.0 percent from 4.5 percent in 2014, a downturn which largely reflects the sharp fal...

Innovation and competitiveness experts have gathered in Addis Ababa from 21-22 April to review draft chapters of the 7th edition of the joint report on Assessing Regional...

Address by His Excellency Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of the Asia-Africa Business Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, 21 April 2015 Sixty years ago, some ...

Speech by South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) Conference on Cross Border Taxation in Africa, 21 April 2015 Good m...

One positive outcome of last year’s U.S.-African Leaders Summit was the creation of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (DBIA), whose purpose is to mak...

Experts from the African Union reviewed the progress in the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) for least developed countries (LDCs) during a meeting at the e...