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Selected Highlights Economy continues to register strong growth The Mozambican economy grew by 6.9 percent in the second quarter of 2014, bringing average growth in the first hal...

The African Development Bank’s NEPAD Regional Integration and Trade Department (ONRI), has published the Energy Sector Capacity Building Diagnostic and Needs Assessment Study. T...

East Africa enters the most decisive stage in its ambitious quest for a political union this week when the five heads of state launch the writing of a federal constitution and issu...

African Heads of State and government on the one hand and the Republic of Turkey on the other, are meeting on 21 November 2014 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in the second summit of...

Emerging market multinationals (EMMs) have become increasingly salient players in global markets. In 2013, one out of every three dollars invested abroad originated from multinatio...

Officials from the Ugandan Ministry of Trade and the Kenya High Commission in Uganda will make a joint verification visit to Malaba border post in the coming week as they try to ...

In the Andes of South America and across the mountains of Central Asia, the glaciers are receding. As temperatures continue to warm, their melting will bring more water to farms an...

China’s Industrialization: Overview – Implications for Africa’s Industrialization Within a span of some six decades, especially the three decades after reform and opening up...

The African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) Board of Executive Directors approved on Wednesday, November 19 the new Regional Integration Policy and Strategy (RIPoS) for the perio...

Three African economic blocs will merge into a new 27-nation free-trade zone under an agreement to be signed in Cairo next month, uniting markets worth 58 percent of the continent...

East Africa’s biggest port, Mombasa, expects to handle at least 14 percent more cargo this year, helped by its expanded capacity and a marketing drive, its management said on Thu...

Small island developing states (SIDS) face severe and complex transport challenges, UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2014 reports. For UNCTAD, the way forward requ...

Africa needs a green, clean industrialization that leapfrogs outdated, polluting processes and platforms and benefits from new technologies, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki...

Zimbabweans who have applied for the new special dispensation permit can go home and return to South Africa over the festive season, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said in Cap...

Paying taxes has become easier over the past year for medium-sized companies around the world, the latest report from the World Bank Group and PwC finds. The time it takes an avera...

The government will set up a one-stop centre for investors to get approvals and permits for setting up businesses in a move meant to attract more investment in the country. ...

Nigeria is known mainly as an oil producer but shifting the emphasis to natural gas is necessary if the country is ever to realise its ambitions for industrialisation. The plans b...

The two-day meeting of the High-level Forum on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development (SS-SCSD) ended in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday with the launching of th...

A number of African countries view China as an attractive development partner who provides generous financing with acceptable terms and doesn’t interfere in their internal affair...

Conference to balance Africa’s economic transformation with development Concluding a large gathering to share experiences on reducing poverty, African and Chinese officials on 1...