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In June 2012, I released the US Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, outlining a comprehensive US policy for the region. The Strategy builds on many of the initiatives launched dur...

Leaders at Summit seek to renew program extending tariff, quota exemptions U.S. and African leaders meeting in Washington on Monday kicked off a campaign to renew a program t...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has developed an initiative to eliminate intra-regional food import and export bans to improve food security and promot...

On the eve of the Africa-US Summit to be held in Washington DC this week, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has underscored that wit...

As the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit got underway here Monday, anti-corruption activists urged President Barack Obama to prod a key U.S. agency to issue long-awaited regulat...

Our institutions for governing world trade and our thinking about world trade date back to a simpler era. Without a radical rethink, we risk the gradual decay of our most valuable ...

In 2004, the African Union (AU) Extraordinary Summit on Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Africa held in Ouagadougou in September 2004 adopted a Declaration, Plan of Action and...

Trade minister Amelia Kyambadde has said non-tariff barriers (NTBs) are greatly affecting Uganda’s competitiveness in the East African market. Speaking at the commissioning of...

In addition to SA’s relatively advanced development, the US disapproves of the country for its ‘antagonism’, focus on Brics, and Middle East position. As African leaders des...

Executive summary In view of the upcoming U.S.-Africa Summit in August 5-6, 2014, the position paper conducts an assessment of the US-Africa relations with a specific focus on the...

India’s decisive stand last week not to adopt the protocol of amendment of the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) unless credible rules were in place for the development issues o...

Swaziland’s agricultural sector and not just the country’s garment industry stands to suffer as Swazi products are no longer given tax-free access to the US market under the Af...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Our briefing this morning will focus on the upcoming United States-Africa Leaders’ Summit, which is scheduled to take place in Washington DC, United States...

South Africa and the other members of the Group of 20 (G20) global forum will submit plans to the forum’s summit in November on how to grow their combined economies by 2 percent ...

Stories about “China in Africa” abound, and regularly make headlines. Now, thanks to a new push, an “Africa in China” narrative has begun to take root with a group of 40 Af...

The dream that the twenty-first century will be the “African Century” is powerful and intoxicating. It is also becoming reality. As African officials gather in Washington, DC, ...

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka, was received Monday, July 28 by the President of the Republic of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, at th...

Uganda and Kenya have agreed to lift a ban on cross-border sugar trade, ending a two-year standoff that has threatened to sour bilateral commercial ties. Uganda Revenue Authority C...

Testimony of United States Trade Representative Michael Froman Before the Senate Finance Committee on the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) July 30, 2014 Washington D.C. ...

The World Trade Organization failed on Thursday to reach a deal to standardise customs rules, which would have been the first global trade reform in two decades but was blocked by ...