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As the world’s least industrialised region with a youthful and fast-growing workforce, African policymakers have for decades put industrialisation at the top of their development...

Tanzania’s senior official at the permanent mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Prisca Mutani, has said that the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) as a legally binding pact is not b...

The Economic Commission for Africa’s Regional Integration and Trade Division, has undertaken a field study on Investment Policies and Bilateral Investment Treaties Landscape...

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have expressed the need to trade more freely with developed members in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In an annual report which the...

Commitment to Multilateralism India is a strong supporter of the multilateral trading system and is committed to strengthening it and ensuring that the WTO remains a key pilla...

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman released the following statement welcoming an agreement between the United States and India on elements aimed at unlocking progress at the ...

THE South African government does not intend ratifying an international treaty aimed at banning the importation of hazardous waste into Africa, saying it wants to protect SA’s ow...

The OECD released on 12 November 2014 its new Strategy for Deepening Developing Country Engagement in the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, which will...

The weak global economic climate will come under the spotlight when members of the Group of 20 countries meet in Brisbane, Australia from 15 to 16 November. The G20 Leaders’ Sum...

At least five countries are vying for the right to host the proposed regional centre for the promotion of renewable energy in southern Africa. According to a recent meeting of the...

Barack Obama aims for reduction of a quarter or more by 2025, while Xi Jinping sets goal for emissions to fall after 2030 The United States and China have unveiled a secretly nego...

“Nigeria is not just a place to set up a business. The country is a big and growing market. Investing in Nigeria is tantamount to connecting to a big market.” The relationship...

Close to 800 million people around the world – or 78 percent of the world’s poor people – live in rural areas and rely on farming, livestock, aquaculture and other agricultur...

A record-breaking number of new trade concerns, mostly dealing with issues such as the protection of health and the environment, were raised by WTO members at the Technical Barrier...

South Africa will be able to restart seafood exports to Russia, which had been suspended over two decades ago, after several seafood companies have been granted rights by Russian a...

China and the US have agreed to eliminate tariffs on a host of technology products – a move which could add $190bn to global GDP. The two trading powers overcame a succession of...

Some of the world’s leading experts on Climate Change have joined the country’s decision makers and opinion leaders gathered today in Tanzania’s business capital to participa...

The inaugural Conference on Land Policy in Africa opened Tuesday evening at the African Union Headquarters in Ethiopia with a strong call for a robust deepening of land governance ...

As Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, leaving more than 4,000 people dead, the region is now on the brink of a major food crisis, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the r...

Namport’s prospective N$30 billion ‘SADC Gateway Port’ will have enormous economic benefits for Namibia, but there are serious social and environmental consequences to be con...