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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...

The UN’s top climate official on 19 November 2014 welcomed a report that underlines how the world can keep a global temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius. UNFCCC Executive Se...

President Zuma led the South African delegation to attend the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane, Australia which took place on 15 to 16 November 2014, concluding Australia’s preside...

As of early November, 2014, Liberia has had nearly 7,000 cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and more than 2,500 deaths. Many of the cases have occurred in the poorest and most dens...

The general trend in the food security situation in COMESA region is of an increase in cereal production with a number of countries registering positive growth. According to ...

Introduction The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was established in 1994 to replace the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA) set u...

The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) said on Tuesday it was still committed to negotiations with India over a delayed preferential trade agreement (PTA). “We are still conf...

The 5th EAC Conference on Good Governance took place on 14-15 November, 2014 in Bujumbura, Burundi. The theme was “Delivering Peaceful and Credible Elections for Sustainable Regi...

This report highlights the status of eliminations of NTBs in the EAC region as of September 2014. The report was developed from the 15th EAC Regional Forum on NTBs held on 25-...

East Africa is making significant progress in their economic integration agenda with a focus on trade and transport facilitation to improve its competitiveness. Heavy investments ...

China just announced a mitigation goal to peak its emissions by 2030 or earlier, while the United States committed to reduce its national emissions by 26-28 percent ...

As Africa gears up for the post-2015 development negotiations participants attending the experts segment of the 9th Regional Review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Acti...

Africa’s skill gap is preventing the continent from achieving its optimum economic growth, a pan African think tank said on Thursday. Visiting Executive Secretary of African Cap...

Inadequate port infrastructure and the recent Ebola disaster are among the top hindrances to trade in Africa, with Kenya being among the affected countries. The Pan African Associ...

The tendency to impose trade-restricting measures remains strong among the EU’s commercial partners, fuelling continuing uncertainty in the world economy. These are the main find...