The political fallout from Trump’s reciprocal tariff regime has wider ramifications. Arrangements that were formed during ...

The fact that the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was able to release a joint statement after the ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, is trying to protect its monopoly in the face of the envisaged transition to a liberalised energy market. The utility has gone to the Gauteng ...

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The Third UN Conference on LLDCs adopted the Awaza Programme of Action for the Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2024-2034 (APoA). This document represents a renewed and action-oriented ...

Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) The Third UN Conference on LLDCs, which took place in Awaza, Turkmenistan from 5-8 August 2025, brought together global ...

This report reviews on recent developments around US trade and Tariff policy, AGOA and implications for South Africa which was informed in early April 2025 – and again in July – of a potential 30% ...

The current excitement about critical minerals is driven by the rather sudden realisation, in the US, that the country has fallen far behind China in the development of critical minerals supply chains ...

The United Nations (UN) has called the 2025 pdf Compromiso de Sevilla(479 KB) (the Seville Commitment), ratified in early July, ‘a landmark‘ and others have described it as ‘a win for multilateralism’ ...

The realisation of a single, integrated African market in financial services hinges on the effective implementation of the emerging regulatory framework for financial services and the existing ...

The African region is the last region to become integrated into the global digital economy. Throughout Africa, platform usage, e-commerce, social network use and mobile money applications are ...