Africa’s trade with China has surged 25% in 2025, reaching $122 billion in just seven months – on track to exceed $200 billion for the first time, yet beneath the boom lies a widening trade imbalance ...

Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati is Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Trade Forum. Before joining NTF in April 2014, she was a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of ...

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Dr. Ify Ogo is a legal economist and trade specialist. Her experience includes working as the UNDP Regional Coordination Specialist on the AfCFTA, as well as Trade Policy Expert at the African Trade ...

South Africa’s fishing industry has secured access to export fish and fish products from listed fisheries to the United States beyond January 2026. This comes after South Africa’s fish products were ...

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 ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. An Executive Order issued by US President Donald Trump on 31 July brought a measure of ...

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 ...

Beatrice Chaytor is an international trade lawyer, called to the Bar in England and Wales as well as Sierra Leone, with over 30 years’ experience in providing advice and support to NGO’s, governments ...

Ms Viola Sawere has over 15 years’ experience in international trade policy, private sector development and multi-stakeholder dialogue. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) ...

The fact that the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was able to release a joint statement after the July meeting at Zimbali near Durban (the Durban Communiqué) has been ...

Dumase Sara Lwando Shawa is a development professional with a master’s in development studies, specialising in public policy and management, project management, and regulatory expertise. She has ...