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Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told the Trade Negotiations Committee that “it’s time to shift things up a gear” in developing a work programme for the conclusion of the Do...

Tanzania is working round the clock to see how it can best implement and gain from the challenging Bali WTO Agreement by making a needs’ assessment as well as working on tra...

Africa and the European Union (EU) agreed at the end of the EU-Africa summit held in Brussels, Belgium last week, to continue working on outstanding Economic Partnership Agree...

The revised WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) entered into force on 6 April 2014, some two years after the Protocol amending the Agreement was originally adopted. ...

An important trade agreement with Africa is causing headaches for the administration. With the first ever U.S.-Africa Head of State Summit inching closer by the day, the Obam...

Creating a favourable global perception of South Africa can go a long way to attracting foreign direct investment. As a result, government stakeholders would like to broaden the co...

Unprecedented investments in Africa’s ground transpor-tation are hardly enough. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which sprawls over 905,000 square miles, is the ...

One-Stop-Border Post (OSBP) means placing border officials of two adjoining countries at each other’s adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffi...

Trade, security and migration top the agenda at biggest summit ever staged by the EU. Africa and the European Union have agreed that “it is time for a fundamental shift from aid...

Africa has recorded robust economic growth since 2001 with average gross domestic product (GDP) of 6.0 per cent that has outpaced the rest of the world, with potential for sus...

African high-level officials indicated recently that negotiations for the establishment of a free-trade area spanning three major regional economic communities in Africa have ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has challenged African governments to accelerate reforms that will encourage more private sector investment in infrastructure projects. Citing Kenya as an...

The federal government has stated that it declined endorsing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union because acting otherwise would have been inimical to t...

Barely a month into the implementation of the Single Customs Territory (SCT), Uganda seems to have started reaping the fruits of the first pilot project. During a press brief...

The South African Customs Union (SACU) council of ministers has recently appointed a Namibian national, Paulina Mbala Elago, to the position of SACU Executive Secretary. SACU...

EU and African leaders from 80 states are poised to meet in Brussels for a two-day summit as a deadline for tariff-free trade agreements draws near. Presidents Jacob Zuma and Rober...

Regulating competition in East the African Community bloc still faces challenges as some countries are not enforcing the relevant law, the East African Competitions Act 2006. ...

The mix of investors in emerging markets stocks and bonds has evolved considerably over the past 15 years, which has made capital flows and asset prices in these countries mor...

African countries need to introduce credible industrial policies and promote effective industrial policy organizations to enhance the structural transformation of the continent, sa...

The EAC Common Market Scorecard 2014 assesses progress toward the development of a common market in capital, services, and goods across the Partner States of the East Afr...