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President Jacob Zuma says the African heads of state have prioritised tackling infrastructure bottlenecks to enable intra-Africa investment to happen in a bid to boost the continen...

Experts believe that the creation of a bigger free trade zone beyond the East African Community through opening borders and addressing policies that impede trade is the gateway to ...

Regional lawyers have added their voice to the push to have the jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) extended in a bid to effectively arbitrate in litigation re...

The just concluded negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between East Africa Community (EAC) member states and the European Union (EU) markets have once again ...

When John Endres, CEO of Good Governance Africa, presents his views on the state of Africa to international audiences, he illustrates his talk with three maps. The first covers th...

Investment in value addition activities that multinational companies make around the world should be extended to benefit developing countries Minister of Trade and Industry Calle S...

South Africa’s efforts to reform its intellectual property (IP) regime in order to improve access to medicines has sparked a firestorm in recent weeks, with major pharmaceutical ...

The majority of people in Africa are engaged in the same profession: farming. Most of these individuals are small-holder farmers with fewer than 5 acres of land and little access t...

US President Barack Obama made a public call on Tuesday for Congress to pass “fast track” trade powers, as part of a larger effort to advance ongoing negotiations with the EU a...

At the 30th Session of NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee meeting ahead of the AU Summit the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa sai...

Seventeen telecommunications companies have signed a construction and maintenance agreement for the planned Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable system. The cable will interconnect ...

The 22nd African Union Summit began on Tuesday, 21 January 21 in Addis Ababa with the 27th ordinary session of the AU’s Permanent Representative’s Committee, chaired by Ethiopi...

AU Commission Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwencha, on Tuesday called on African countries to unite in implementing the continent’s approved programme for infrastructure developme...

Foreign direct investment flows to Africa increased nearly 7 percent to an estimated $56 billion last year, nearly a fifth of which went to top recipient South Africa, a United Nat...

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in a speech at the Confederation of Indian Industry Partnership Summit in Bangalore on 28 January 2014, said that “besides being a boost to the...

Africa and India are gearing up to further enhance cooperation in agricultural science, technology and innovation, and move beyond dialogue to a range of practical options from a v...

The Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union, Mrs. Fatima Haram Acyl, gave an assessment of the role of existing African Union trade and industry frame works for th...

African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Monday called on Africa to deepen economic integration in order to eradicate widespread hunger and poverty on the con...

A number of World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed on Saturday to step up efforts to implement a trade facilitation deal that could add US$1 trillion to the global economy. ...

After several decades in the shadows, Africa has entered the spotlight as one of the best investment destinations since the economic crisis of the West. The tone has changed from d...