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Investing in ways to adapt to climate change will promote the livelihood of 65 per cent of Africans, the United Nations environmental agency reported, warning also that failing to ...

China has replaced Japan as Kenya’s largest bilateral lender, helped by its participation in the East African nation’s mega infrastructure projects, the Treasury’s latest deb...

The SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department says production of cereals has remained stagnant in the past four years and resulted in shortfalls that have to be met b...

The meeting of SADC-EAC-COMESA rules of origin were held in Burundi on 4-7 August 2014. The purpose of the meeting was to harmonize the rules of origin in SADC, EAC, and COMESA in ...

Recently, I led the East African Community-European Union delegation to a meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, that had been convened to resolve three outstanding issues on Economic Partners...

SADC has completed the review process for the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) and the draft revised document is expected to be presented to the Council of Mi...

A number of South African and international commentators have wondered whether there was any real substance to the US-Africa Summit in the first week of the month, or whether all t...

It was interesting reading through the proceedings of the US-Africa forum, which focused mainly on business investment opportunities between the two continents. America is at lo...

A World Bank Report called “Defragmenting Africa” describes Africa’s borders as thick. This thickness is attributed to “mountains of documents that exporters and importers ...

Kenya has signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) with the United States marking a significant milestone in collaboration on security and trade facilitation between the...

What GAO Found U.S. imports from African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries have increased since 2001, but AGOA countries’ share of overall U.S. imports remained small ...

In his famous piece ‘How to write about Africa’, the Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina satirically advised pundits to ‘treat Africa as if it were one country… 900 million p...

The government last year collected Sh310.66 billion as royalty and taxes from large scale mines, according to the Tanzania Minerals Audit Agency (TMAA) annual audit Report. TMAA D...

South Africa and Africa in general benefitted immensely from the recent US-Africa Leaders’ Summit held in Washington last week, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on Tue...

Forum to focus on innovative financing for Africa’s transformation The Ninth African Development Forum will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 16 October 2014 on the...

The tendering for the feasibility study for the construction of the multi-billion dollar railway line connecting Botswana’s Mmamabula coal field to the port of Walvis Bay is expe...

Imports down by 6.2%, India remains major trade partner Nigeria’s total merchandise trade increased by 6.8 per cent to about N5.51 trillion in the first quarter of the year (Q1 ...

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has announced the details of the new Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permit (ZSP). Outlining the particulars of the ZSP at a media briefing in ...

While the agenda at the recently concluded US-Africa Summit included such things as governance and education, the underlying motivation was business with Africa. But the first n...

The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Monday passed the first reading of a bill amending the country’s law on petroleum and gas, intended, according to the ...