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It will see Egypt talk to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC), and East African Community (EAC) Egypt will pa...

FinMark Trust released the results of its first FinScope Consumer Mauritius 2014 survey results on 3 October 2014. The FinScope Survey, developed by FinMark Trust, is a research to...

The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will start implementing the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET), a flat rate tariff on all shipments within the West Afric...

Uganda Manufactures Association wants all government departments and ministries to buy products manufactured in Uganda especially textiles.  The move will increase the produc...

A group of African climate research and impact communities began meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, today [6 October 2014] to agree a research collaboration platform on climate science...

Africa nations have already begun to tap into global financial markets. Domestic tax and savings also offer solutions. Power outages and the lack of roads, railways, and ports hav...

Ethiopia needs to move from public sector to private investment-driven growth to keep success Despite Ethiopia’s achieving robust economic growth, while keeping inflation b...

Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the 14th International Economic Forum on Africa “By Africa, For Africa: Industrialisation and Integration for Inclu...

Government has been urged to do exploration to determine the country’s mineral resources to enable it to enter into meaningful contracts with investors who have often been accuse...

Players in the logistics industry have warned that new levies planned by counties on the Northern Corridor could raise the cost of doing business and discourage traders in the regi...

African Union Chairwoman Nkosana Dlamini-Zuma is calling for more outside manpower to help “break the cycle” of the Ebola virus that is ravaging three West African countries. S...

The East African Community (EAC) partner states have not yet agreed on the benchmarks for issuance of work permits and now trade unions want them to be processed within 30 days a...

African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states that have not ratified Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the EU will shortly lose their free EU market access. Namibia was one...

The European Union now says the fate of Kenya’s imports to the European trade bloc is in the hands of the East African Community trading bloc amid rising anxiety over the future ...

The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) has rolled-out a systematic trade facilitation mechanism to protect and promote the interests of shippers in relation to shipping, port and in...

Conflicts, famine and Ebola blunt bid for greater commercial ties; playing catch-up with China American and African leaders in August celebrated a new story for Africa, one c...

Clearing and forwarding agents Wednesday started filing documents through the Kenya National Electronic Single Window System, which is expected to ease customs processes at the por...

US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded their leaders’ meeting in Washington on Tuesday, directing their officials to “consult urgently” w...

Rising domestic and foreign investment are set to boost economic activity in Kenya, as the central African country reaps rewards of extensive institutional reforms and prudent macr...

Africa must embrace agricultural innovations to better compete in an evolving global bio-economy, according to findings from a new report issued by the African Development Bank (Af...