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The Government has launched the e-governance statistical data portal which will increase access to quality data for managing and monitoring development results around Africa includ...

The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government has thrown its weight behind a plan to build a multibillion-rand monorail between Durban and King Shaka International Airport, with construc...

This publication was commissioned for and forms part of the background documentation for an ad hoc expert group, entitled: “Trade Remedies in Green Sectors: the Case of Renewabl...

Iron ore exports from India have halted as a global price slump and an increase in royalty fees made shipments unviable for miners battling high taxes levied on overseas sales. ...

Burundi has joined Rwanda and Tanzania in ratifying the East African Community Monetary Union Protocol. The Protocol aims to harmonize monetary and fiscal policies and establish a ...

The Rockefeller Foundation, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Tuesday, December 9 convened the Africa Forum on Incl...

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2014 shows that developing and transition economies run large trade surpluses for merchandise and services trade Developing economies ran a combined ...

Urging the 20th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to “act now,” UN officials in Lima, Peru on 9 December 2014 stressed...

The United Kingdom continues to support the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa (COMESA), and for greater regional trade and economic integration in Africa. Speaking at ...

COMESA Council of Ministers held their 33rd meeting in Lusaka on 8 December 2014 with a call to address the Non-Tariff Barriers inhibiting intra-COMESA trade The most frequently r...

On 27 November 2014 at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, ECOWAS, WAEMU and the European Union, together with implementing partners launched two major programmes. These programmes re...

Government has intensified efforts aimed at improving Rwanda’s logistics industry. Already, the government has signed business deals with sector investors. Government has also ...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in introducing his annual report “Developments in the International Trading Environment” to the Trade Policy Review Body on 8 December, said ...

Has the African Growth and Opportunity Act run its course? It may seem counter-intuitive to imagine that Africa could make contractual demands on the United States. Yet, there is ...

Rail to link Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and Togo On the dual carriageway linking the main airport to downtown Niamey, the capital of Niger, worke...

The most detailed study yet of international funding to adapt to climate change and cut emissions reveals that half of the US$7.6 billion approved to date is targeted at just ten c...

The second session of the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Enabling Environment at All Levels in Support of Inclusive and Sustainable Development will be held on 8-9 De...

World Bank Group President says 2015 Paris climate agreement can help transform economy to achieve zero net emissions before end of the century Against a backdrop of climate deal ...

East African businesses are set to trade more with India by learning how to take advantage of the country’s duty-free market access scheme, facilitated by the...

The 7th African private sector forum, organized by the Department of Economic Affairs of the AUC, ended on 5 December 2014 with the adoption of concrete recommendations on how to e...