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The international community must do more to provide landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) with the agricultural and industrial technology to turn raw materials into high-value pr...

The 2nd Meeting of the 3rd Session of the 3rd Assembly commenced in Kigali, Rwanda on 21 October 2014. The Speaker of the Rwanda, Chamber of Deputies, Rt Hon Donatile Mukabalisa op...

At a meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development on 10 October 2014, WTO members were updated on a recent ITC-WTO workshop that called for greater support for small and mediu...

We are pleased to inform you that tralac is a Cape Chamber of Commerce Western Cape Exporter of the Year 2014 finalist. Exporter of the Year 2014 The Cape Chamber of Commerce W...

Background Administrative records regulating the flow of people across boundaries, specifically border statistics, are an important source of statistical data on temporary populat...

South Africa is a country rich in diversity with an array of cultures and communities, each with their own stories and history. Each of these communities have produced sometimes wo...

President Paul Kagame on Monday began a three-day visit to London where he addressed business leaders at the Global African Investment Summit. The event, under the theme “Realisi...

Despite astounding economic growth rates and significant improvements in Africa’s participation in global value chains, the overall picture in many African countries remains one ...

Delegates meeting under the umbrella of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on Friday closed a two-week long meet held in South Korea after agreeing to a series of 33 deci...

WTO members negotiating Seychelles’ accession agreed on the terms of the country’s WTO membership on 17 October 2014, concluding 18 years of negotiation. This decision still re...

Uganda could rely on income from future oil exports to finance an $8 billion railway if funding talks with China fail to bear fruit, its president said. Yoweri Museveni confirmed ...

The WTO has played a key role in helping countries adjust to four recent trends that have considerably altered the relationship between trade and development, according to the late...

More than 50 high-level representatives from governments, the private sector and civil society convened in Geneva, Switzerland on 16 October to address the challenges arising from ...

Strong growth in the majority of sub-Saharan Africa’s economies should underpin a robust regional expansion in 2014 and 2015, the IMF said in its regional outlook. In most count...

The Dairy Association of Zambia (DAZ) maintains that the government’s regulatory framework for dairy products is de facto applying double standards with regard to use of both the...

East Africa’s growing GDP, a stabilised political environment, the discovery of natural resources like oil and gas and intensified infrastructure development have placed the re...

Guinea-Bissau is one of Africa’s richest countries when it comes to natural resource endowment. Beyond having great biodiversity, its soil is fertile and hosts a multitude of min...

The 13th multilateral negotiation meeting on Algeria’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is due to be held early January 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland, Trade Min...

President Barack Obama is under significant pressure to impose a range of restrictions on travellers coming to the United States from West African countries affected by the current...

The East African Community is seeking at least $43 billion to fund key infrastructure projects for the next 10 years as it moves to address its current huge infrastructure gap. Th...