As part of the U.S.-Africa Business Summit being hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa this week, four African heads of state, participated in a Presidential Roundtable on regional integration. The presidents of Rwanda, Ghana, the Republic of Congo, and

The following remarks were delivered by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at U.S.-Africa Business Summit hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa at the Convention Center in Washington, DC.

CHINA is pleased that Zimbabwe has achieved national reconciliation and set up an inclusive Government and now wants the West to lift its ruinous economic embargo, a senior Chinese official has said.

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BRITISH Council has entered a partnership to improve the quality of honey in the country.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) says the collaborative effort of all relevant agencies fighting smuggling has resulted in 85 per cent success of the campaign.

One of the defining moments of global economic liberalism was the inauguration of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the mid-1990s. The WTO came as a global mechanism to regulate trade between countries, which is within its paradigm as the

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KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) exported 74,930 tonnes of copper concentrates while Mopani Copper Mines PLC exported 54,814 tonnes of copper cathodes between January and June this year.

The Swiss national food giant Nestle has been criticised heavily for buying milk from Grace Mugabe, who controversially has 'acquired' six farms, most of them taken from white commercial farmers.

Ghana's new Central Bank governor Kwesi Amissah-Arthur said he may reduce interest rates for the first time since 2006 if inflation continues to slow.

Poor infrastructure within the eastern and southern Africa countries remains the biggest challenge for trade development in the region.

A Germany-based company, Gauff Engineering, has expressed interest to construct a modern inland port on Lake Victoria to handle the country's exports and imports.

South Africa registered a trade deficit for the month of August, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) announced on Wednesday.

The plans for a common market in the East African Community (EAC) are proceeding apace and should fall in place on Jan 1, 2010, the target date of implementation. But Uganda's traders are concerned that they will be unable to

UGANDA'S cotton industry can dress citizens in the Common Market for East and Southern African countries, the Rev. Father Simon Lokodo, Minister of state for industry and technology, said.

The Government Delegate to the Douala City Council Dr Fritz Ntone Ntone, has issued a communiqué requesting traders of Dacat market in Ndokoti to start paying a new "space occupation" atx. The deadline according to this communiqué, to pay the

Government ministries are trading blame over the unfolding scandal in which millions of shillings continue to be paid to no-existent employees in public service every month.

American and African entrepreneurs and investors will meet face to face to develop relationships and to establish and expand business, trade and investment ties at the Seventh Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit, which convenes in Washington September 29-October 1.

The British High Commission and the British Council have organised an open forum to allow the public discuss the relevance of the Commonwealth in the modern world. The forum will be held in Arusha on Friday.