In the quarter to June 2025, the bloc’s trade balance deteriorated by 334 percent, reversing earlier gains and returning to a familiar but undesirable trend. This saw the bloc go from a historic ...

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.

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 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 ...

According to the report, the programme, formally launched on August 20, 2025, is part of a new regional strategy to build “borderless value chains” across West Africa and strengthen linkages between ...

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 ...

South Africa’s commodity boom set to spill into wider economy (Engineering News) South Africa‘s commodity windfall is expected to seep into the broader economy, boosting banks, retailers and property ...

AD1072: South Africans endorse open trade, greater African voice in international affairs (Afrobarometer) South Africa’s biggest bilateral trading partners are China, the United ...

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 ...

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 ...