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FinMark Trust released the results of its 2014 FinScope Consumer Malawi survey today. The survey measures the current levels of financial inclusion in Malawi and tracks the changes...

The European Commission has launched the first phase of a new programme that will foster Africa’s integration process at continental level – the first ever EU program...

After nearly a week of wheeling and dealing in Washington D.C., business leaders and policy makers from the United States and Africa are calling the first ever U.S.-Africa Leader...

Cabinet approved South Africa’s initial transport sector offer under the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Trade in Services Negotiations. The objectives of the SADC...

Developing countries in Asia and the Pacific are experiencing yet another year of subdued economic growth, marking the third successive year of growth below 6 per cent, according t...

A list of multi-billion infrastructure projects was released Wednesday that will be handed over to the private sector in a bid to make Kenya a middle-income status nation. I...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United States have signed a trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) aimed at expanding trade and investment b...

Washington, D.C., 4-6 August 2014 I. Background President Obama welcomed leaders from across the African continent to Washington, D.C., for a three-day U.S.-Africa Lead...

President Obama and African leaders took part in three action-oriented sessions today [6 August 2014] as part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. The su...

Trade liberalization has progressed with historically unprecedented speed in the 21st century: trade volumes are booming; and hundreds of millions have been lifted out of dire pove...

The managing director of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi, has blamed federal government’s fiscal measures that restricted some imports into the country and ...

Well-funded Kenyan banks are set to lead regional lenders in business expansion over the next two years owing to larger capital bases and investment in mobile technology, a new rep...

Speech by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ms Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, on the occasion of a Public Lecture on: “South Africa’s Chairpersonship of BR...

The inaugural U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit was held in Washington, D.C. from 4-6 August 2014. The Summit, the largest event any U.S. President has held with African heads of sta...

How to evaluate whether the SADC Free Trade Area is making solid progress? Which Member States are on track offering largely tariff-free access to the other SADC Member States? How...

The government is likely to allow some US chicken imports into the local market at lower tariffs in exchange for continued participation in the lucrative African Growth and Opportu...

African leaders on Tuesday called for a deeper economic relationship with the United States, hailing investment pledges totaling more than $17 billion at a Washington summit as a f...

India refused to yield ground on Tuesday on its spat with the World Trade Organisation and said it believed it could convince other members that its need for more freedom on food s...

Africa is the world’s second-fastest growing economic region, yet US engagement with the continent is lagging. There’s an opportunity to change that. The White House has ...

Tanzania will now allow East Africans to freely move capital in and out of the country – a move that is expected to increase cross-border investment and deepen economic in...