Africa: U.S. Should Back Real Economic Transformation

The focus on business at the U.S.-Africa Leadership Summit last month was a welcome pointer for how to recalibrate policy and bring tangible economic benefits in trade and… Read more »

Africa: How Polygamy Slows Small Business Growth

Amelia Kyambadde, Uganda minister for trade, industry and cooperatives, has some 30 years of civil service in her resume, but even with a mission that keeps her on a… Read more »

Africa: Pearls of Wisdom as Export Forum Nurtures Entrepreneurs

At the registration lobby within the Serena Hotel grounds in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, delegates make a beeline to collect their conference badges. Others chat away excitedly, as… Read more »

Rwanda: Kigali - a Different Kind of City

The Chinese pair trailing me at the check-in line at Kigali airport looked happy to have landed in east Africa. A string of comments expressing restrained delight followed me all… Read more »

Africa: Making Trade an Engine for Growth and Development

International Trade Centre (ITC) Executive Director Arancha González is passionate about this: Trade brings prosperity and other good things.She spoke to allAfrica at the… Read more »

Africa: Trade Group Promotes Women Power

Let's say you're an African woman with a fabulous idea, and you build a creative small business around it. You and your associates are euphoric - but then you hit a wall. Read more »

Africa: Three Scenarios for the Future of Agoa

On September 30, 2015, the African Growth and Opportunity Act will expire. The act provides duty free access to the United States, and if it lapses could threaten 62,395 jobs in… Read more »

Africa: Africa Must Also Lobby U.S. Congress on Trade Law

Next week about 48 African leaders will descend on Washington, DC for the first ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. African leaders are expected to arrive with a long list of items to… Read more »

Africa: What Africa Needs to Boost Trade With the U.S.

Ahead of the United States-Africa summit which President Barack Obama is convening next week, southern African trade expert Joshua Setipa outlines what he would say if he was to… Read more »

Africa: Kerry Pledges to Promote Democracy, Rights & Peace

United States Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Addis Ababa today on the first stop of a visit to east and central Africa. As his trip began, he responded by email to… Read more »

Africa: Europe and Africa - Crocodiles With One Stomach

Two heads, one stomach? This is how a former minister described Africa-Europe relations last month, using the West African metaphor of an Adinkra crocodile to say both continents… Read more »

Africa: Championing a Development Agenda Beyond 2015

Molly Elgin-Cossart, senior fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation, reflects on lessons learned from the United Nations High-Level Panel on the… Read more »

Africa: Public-Private Partnerships Can Transform Africa

While unveiling a bold initiative to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, President Barack Obama made it unequivocally clear that this undertaking will require private… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Can Invest in Africa On Bipartisan Basis

President Barack Obama's recent visit to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania was written off as a "guilt trip" by some and a "last chance" to salvage an Africa policy legacy by… Read more »

Africa: Obama Visits Africa - U.S. Can Do Better

President Barack Obama was correct when he told business leaders in Tanzania this week that togther the United States and Africa have "an enormous opportunity to unleash the next… Read more »

Africa: Obama Visits Africa - an End to Paternalism

President Barack Obama has made a profound and impactful visit to Africa. Read more »

Africa: Obama Promises Africa a 'Partnership of Equals'

President Barack Obama has promised Africa "a new model of partnership" which moves beyond the provision of aid and is focussed on increased trade and investment, including a… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Must 'Up Its Game' On Trade and Investment

An excerpt from President Obama's speech at the University of Cape Town: Read more »

Africa: Obama Commits to Boosting Trade, Jobs

U.S. President Barack Obama committed himself in Dakar Thursday to  both renewing and improving the legislation which gives qualifying African countries preferential access to… Read more »

Africa: Seizing Opportunities, Delivering Products As African Markets Expand - P&G

Last year, the United States announced a new strategy toward sub-Saharan Africa that emphasizes increased trade and investment, including intra-African trade. Officials acknowledge… Read more »

Africa: United States Disengaging From Africa - Mo Ibrahim

Although Africa is moving forward, the United States is pulling back, says Mo Ibrahim, the billionaire entrepreneur and father of Africa's mobile phone revolution. Read more »

Africa: Plutocrats Versus the People - Another World Is Possible

Every February, roughly 3,000 of the world's economic and political elite gather for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the snowy ski town of Davos amidst the beautiful backdrop of… Read more »

West Africa: U.S. and West African Countries Work Towards Trade Deal

The United States is working with West African countries to reach a trade and investment agreement that supports efforts at economic growth and integration as American companies… Read more »

Africa: Will Africa's Candidate Win Top World Trade Post?

It's decision time for the 159 member countries in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which regulates global rules for trade and tariffs. The selection process for the next WTO… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Official Flags Poaching As Security Threat

The number of elephants alive today is the smallest number ever recorded. A new surge of slaughter is, according to wildlife experts, worse than the mass killings of the 1970s and… Read more »