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Ethiopia will not be ready to open up financial and other essential sectors to gain World Trade Organization (WTO) accession until 2015, according to the Ministry of Trade. This i...

The Department of Trade and Industry has had a veritable bee in its bonnet about the 46 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) that the Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki administrations...

The East African Community has issued regulations to enhance the operationalization of the EAC Standardization, Quality Assurance, Metrology and Testing Act (SQMT) of 2006. The SQM...

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz today said the creation of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) was a good initiative by emerging market economies as they have reso...

The national director for Foreign Trade of the Angolan Trade Ministry, Adriano Martins, in an interview with Angolan National Radio called for the introduction of quotas on the imp...

Zimbabwe says it has discovered new diamond fields ‘almost the size of Swaziland’ and expects to realise billions of dollars from mining activities. The announcement at the we...

Forget the Brics and the Civets, Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey are the new kids on the bloc according to economists Meet the Mints: Mexico | Indonesia | Nigeria | Turkey ...

Entering 2014, the year that will see the hosting here of the Third India-Africa Forum Summit, the focus will be on the key element of maritime security cooperation between the nei...

It is generally agreed amongst the international community, at least in principle, that liberalisation of trade and allowing the free movement of goods, services and people, among ...

Arguably the most important economic development last year was the announcement of a new push toward a trade deal between the United States and the EU. Almost a year after Presiden...

Africa has seen a dramatic rise in engagement with emerging market economies. In 2012, China’s value of African trade topped $220 billion. African exports to and from India grew ...

2013 ushered in the most significant change in the United States’ Africa policy since the passing of PEPFAR 10 years ago. The unveiling of investment-focused initiatives – Powe...

Today, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) Se...

Little economic grounding dictates that markets for products play a critical role in growing any economy, itself a key prerequisite for enhancing the livelihoods of communities. As...

For developing countries, it seems, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite all the talk of global power shifts and the rise of emerging economies, global trad...

Some ideas are intuitive. Others sound so obvious after they are expressed that it is hard to deny their truth. They are powerful, because they have many non-obvious implications. ...

Major manufacturing and business groups on Tuesday urged a court here to roll back a new U.S. regulation that would soon require major manufacturers to ensure that their global sup...

Visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde is now warning Kenya against rushing to implement the East African Community Monetary Union. Speakin...

The East African Community has drafted a new blueprint to guide its efforts to market the region as a single source of exports. The EAC Export Promotion Strategy 2013-2017 is read...

Three regional economic communities in Africa are expected to sign an agreement in 2014 to establish an enlarged market covering 26 countries in eastern and southern Africa. The ...