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China has overtaken India to become Kenya’s top source of imported goods, newly released data show. The world’s most populous nation grew its exports to Kenya by 37.9 per ce...

The global energy industry is undergoing a seismic shift, in part driven by development of new, unconventional sources of energy, such as shale gas, tight oils, coal seam gas and o...

Djibouti is preparing for the future. The small country on the Horn of Africa has outlined an ambitious set of goals it hopes to achieve over the next two decades. These goals are ...

Trade between Africa and Ireland is expected to reach €24bn by the end of the decade, Trade and Development Minister Sean Sherlock told a conference recently. The minister said ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday said it will assist the 19-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) to implement market competition guidelines....

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) monthly food price index was stable in October, as sugar and vegetable oil prices rose to offset declines in dairy a...

Private sector engagement is key to accelerating development in the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), said delegates attending an event in the margins of the Se...

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Group at the WTO presented a report to the multilateral organisation’s Committee on Rules of Origin (CRO) on 30 October, calling fo...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo welcomed on 5 November 2014 a joint statement issued at the conclusion of a United Nations conference on landlocked developing countries which und...

The report entitled: “The State of the Biofuels Market: Regulatory, Trade and Development Perspectives” offers a comprehensive snapshot of today’s biofuels market and how it ...

The European Union (EU) has lifted its decade-long economic sanctions on Zimbabwe in a move that will see the trading bloc extending 234 million Euros (about 300 million U.S. dolla...

The 3rd meeting of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Technical Committee on Movement of Business Persons (TTC-MBP) is being held from 3 to 6 November 2014, at Le Méridien Hotel,...

Landlocked least developed countries were vocal in negotiations on cutting red tape in customs and other border procedures – known as “trade facilitation” – and t...

Address by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ms Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, to the Special Joint Sitting of Parliament debating Agenda 2063 in Cape Town, 31...

On October 25, the Tripartite Sectoral Committee of Ministers announced that the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) covering three Regional Economic Communities – the East African...

The world’s economic center of gravity shifts eastward; emerging economies see bigger connectedness gains than advanced economies  Flows of trade, capital, informatio...

The COMESA Competition Commission (the Commission) is charged with the administration and enforcement of the COMESA Competition Regulations (the Regulations). Since the Commission ...

India on 2 November 2014 told Mauritius that it will not take any decisions that will “adversely impact” bilateral relations while reassuring the country that amendments to the...

Top officials at Tanzania’s state-owned oil agency were arrested this week on charges of failing to release to parliament oil and gas contracts the government signed with foreign...

Trade facilitation instruments developed by COMESA have contributed to the creation of robust regional institutions that provide re-insurance services and regional customs guarante...