African leaders and France on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, adopted the Africa Forward Summit Declaration, outlining a renewed partnership focused on inclusive growth, innovation, peace, sustainable ...

South Africa is four months into the country’s electricity market transition – widely regarded as the most important economic reform since 1994 – but the process is already at a crossroads. The ...

Malawi is a land-locked country in Southern Africa with operational Simplified Trade Regimes (STRs) with four neighbouring countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. At the regional level, ...

Just 11% of South African goods exports are women-driven. This share has been shrinking over the past 20 years as historically male-intensive sectors have grown while female-intensive sectors have ...

Evidence from firm-level survey data on barriers to regional trade participation reveals that among women-led non-users of AfCFTA preferences, the main reason is simply not knowing that the Agreement ...

Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade is the legal instrument designed for advancing the participation of women and youth in intra-African trade and integration. The Protocol is not yet in force. This ...

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SADC convenes a workshop for validation of Malawi Coordinated Border Management National Strategy (SADC) The Southern African Development Community (SADC) in collaboration with the European Union (EU) ...

US administration launched unprecedented tariff actions against African trading partners in 2025, driven by trade imbalance calculations. This ‘tariff shock’ was uneven and fluctuated significantly ...

US President Donald Trump kicked off his second terms of office with unprecedented tariff actions against the US’ entire group of trading partners. Developing regions were not spared this onslaught, ...