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ECOWAS Member States have been encouraged to integrate regional progammes and aspirations in their national development plans to facilitate the realization of the overarching objec...

Martin Dlamini, Minister for Finance, says an agreement has been reached on the issue of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) revenue sharing formula. He said with the new fo...

There is confusion in Tanzania’s sugar industry following the government’s recent decision to make a U-turn on the modalities of importing the item.  While local producer...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern (COMESA) will step up cooperation with a view to boosting intra-African trade.ITC Executive Dire...

The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in D...

This Human Capital Strategy, the first for the Bank, is the operational framework for the Bank’s interventions in human capital in Africa. Africa’s new landscape compels signi...

Rwandan-made products could soon increase on the Canadian market following an initiative by Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and the Canadian Trade Facilitation Office (TFO) to link ...

Ugandan service providers will soon be able to render professional services to more than 25 World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries, information from the Trade ministry i...

Bilateral trade between China and Kenya rose 53 percent to a record high of 5.009 billion US dollar in 2014, Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Liu Xianfa said on Monday.The ambassador to...

The ailing economy is expected to take a further beating as the country battles its worst power outages in seven years because of surging demand for electricity. Eskom has bee...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced plans to hold a one-day business forum in Cairo on 24 February, 2015 aimed at promoting improved trade between Egypt and ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi yesterday met ambassadors from SADC member-states to discuss modalities of developing an Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap ahea...

Concrete steps should be taken by the government and the Tanzania Women’s Chamber of Commerce (TWCC)  to reduce red tape at Tanzania’s borders and enhance women’s cross ...

Malawi is expected to host a four-day meeting of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa-East African Community-Southern Africa Development Community (COMESA-EAC-SADC) Tr...

Heads of State of the East African Community (EAC) partner states are expected to meet in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, this week, for a summit that will, among others, discuss susta...

Reconstruction of the network of railways in Angola, destroyed by the country’s civil war, between 2005 and 2015 cost over US$3.5 billion, Angola’s Minister of Transport, Augus...

The European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe €234m, it said on Monday, the first time the government has received EU aid since 2002. The EU has gradually eased biting sanctions to...

Nairobi is the most intelligent city in Africa according to a report released by The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). Nairobi has been listed among the 21 most intelligent cities...

Speaker Kidega promises Assembly’s support Employers and the trade union fraternity in the region now want the EAC to speedily and fully implement the Common Market Protocol. Th...

Ministers and Deputy Ministers Directors-General and Senior Managers Ladies and gentlemen of the media Welcome to the International Cooperation, Trade and Security (ICTS) cluste...