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Without strong industries to create jobs and add value to raw materials, African countries risk remaining shackled by joblessness and poverty. Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana produce 5...

The co-chairs of a UN group tasked with drafting a blueprint for sustainable development goals (SDGs) released a list of 19 focus areas on Friday, following a year of discussions. ...

Investors from South Korea to Brazil and from India to South Africa are the new kids on the African block. Nor have old investors like the US, UK, France and Australia pulled out. ...

Ministers gathered at the 15th Regional Seminar of Labour-based Practitioners in Yaoundé called for increased participation of local enterprises and people in infrastructure devel...

Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies says a draft of the next iteration of the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) has been prepared. Minister Davies was addressing a post S...

Ministerial talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral economic partnership agreement once again failed to reach a basic agreement, mainly due to a confrontation between ...

A financial analyst has expressed concern about about Namibia’s reliance on revenue from the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), saying the government needs to diversify its so...

A senior official at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) says the organization is encouraged by an agreement between heads of state from Uganda, the Democrat...

There may be a trillion dollars worth of minerals buried underneath the African continent – but information on those resources remains in many cases unknown, unmapped or otherwis...

The BRICS bloc of emerging economies will set up its development bank with a total capital of $100 billion within five years, but member countries still haven’t agreed on their s...

New measures aim to encourage trade and promote SA as an African investment hub We all know the stories of Shoprite, MTN and Game’s growing presence on the African continent. Bu...

The government has said that talks on its request to have the US government extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) are progressing well. Speaking in an exclusive int...

West Africa’s ministers of finance and trade have adopted the compromise proposals for concluding the decade long negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with th...

Adopting ambitious and comprehensive structural reform agendas will offer governments the best chance for a return to strong, sustainable and balanced economic growth that creates ...

Complying with the requirements to export citrus fruit to the lucrative EU market had cost the local industry as much as R1 billion in the past year, Justin Chadwick, the chief exe...

Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Elizabeth Thabethe will today lead a 40-member business delegation to India for the fifth annual Investment and Trade Initiative (ITI). The ITI ...

For most of the post-independence period, Africa’s commercial and development partnerships have been largely dominated by Western Europe, the United States and Canada. For many A...

The message from the Americans is loud and clear: Swaziland has to ‘fully’ comply with five conditions or lose their eligibility to participate in the Africa Growth Opportunity...

Indeed to release the potential of Africa, there is the need to develop means to facilitate trade across the borders and this means major investments in transport infrastructure in...

Overlapping membership in several trade areas is impeding “free circulation of goods” within the East African Community-members states, a regional integration and trade expert ...