The announcement made on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at the ongoing COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, marks a breakthrough for nations already suffering from droughts, floods, sea-level rise, and ...

Rwanda’s trade policy is being revised to address long-standing gaps that have limited the country’s trade performance and competitiveness. A revised policy will address issues such as a narrow and ...

Ms Viola Sawere has over 15 years’ experience in international trade policy, private sector development and multi-stakeholder dialogue. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) ...

Beatrice Chaytor is an international trade lawyer, called to the Bar in England and Wales as well as Sierra Leone, with over 30 years’ experience in providing advice and support to NGO’s, governments ...

The recent signing by sixteen African Governments of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement has been hailed as a breakthrough event. [1] Commentators claim that this new pact will bring about major trade ...

At the end of the fourth 2025 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting, held in Washington in mid-October 2025, the meeting was not able to produce a consensus communiqué.

South African Export Councils Optimistic About Increasing Trade with China (the dtic) Two South African export councils say their participation in the China International Import Expo (CIIE) will ...

George Chikondi Lwanda is a regional programme and policy advisor with the UNDP Africa Centre, a 2018 Asia Global Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the Hong Kong University, and an alum of the Mo ...

South Africa’s cabinet approved an Integrated Resources Plan (IRP 2025) in mid-October. The masterplan for the country’s energy development going forward contains some astounding numbers. The IRP ...