How the African Trade Observatory strengthens trade policy.
Stories & Blogs ITCOct 15, 2025(News )As Africa moves forward with the implementation of the AfCFTA, policymakers need robust, data-driven trade tools to monitor the state of intra-African integration.
Flipping the script on critical raw materials: ITC Executive Director on Africa’s role.
Stories & Blogs ITCOct 15, 2025(News )No more “Scramble for Africa”: We need to flip the script. In the global conversation on critical raw materials, Africa needs to see itself as the prize.
Africa’s Blue Economy: The next frontier for economic resilience beyond natural treasures.
Stories & Blogs UNDP - AfricaSep 23, 2025(Press Release )"The Africa Blue Economy Week 2025 reminds and encourages us to work collaboratively towards pooling finances and maximising the potential of the Blue Economy in Africa,” stated Dr Jihane El Gaouzi, Head of the Sustainable Environment Division at the Afri
Small businesses make waves at Intra-African Trade Fair
Stories & Blogs ITCSep 23, 2025(News )African small businesses are rewriting the rules of trade, and this year’s Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) in Algiers proved it.
New report exposes pervasive gender inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa’s agrifood systems, despite women powering half the agrifood workforce.
Stories & Blogs FAOSep 02, 2025(News )In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately three out of four working women (76 percent) are employed in agrifood systems, and women make up 49 percent of the agrifood systems workforce.
From Landlocked to Land-Linked: Unlocking Africa’s Inland Economic Powerhouses
Stories & Blogs UNDP - AfricaAug 07, 2025(Press Release )Reframing Africa’s landlocked nations as strategic “land-linked” economies driving trade, innovation, and integration across the continent.
Low-income countries hit hardest by global food price inflation.
Stories & Blogs FAOJul 22, 2025(News )Special Event in New York explores the causes, consequences and solutions to the 2021-2023 food price inflation.
Analysing the potential impact of US tariffs on developing countries
Stories & Blogs ITCApr 07, 2025(News )Developing countries face some of the stiffest consequences of the latest round of the United States of America (US) tariffs announced on 2 April.
Women’s economic empowerment, green trade set the scene for WTO conference
Stories & Blogs ITCMar 05, 2024(News )The world’s trade ministers discussed some of the thorniest issues in global commerce at the highest-level gathering for the World Trade Organization (WTO).