The recently endorsed International Trade and Administration Commission (ITAC) recommendation to adjust the sugar and increase import duty of US$680 per tonne will provide the immediate relief required by the industry and protection against the surge of imports, said Ncumisa Mcata-Mhlauli, chief director for agro-processing at the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti)

Azimo, the leading European digital money transfer service, has announced 80 per cent growth in transactions sent to M-Pesa wallet in Kenya since the beginning of the year

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a US$41mn agreement with Republic of Sudan to finance a public sector agriculture value chain development project in the country

Sage, British multinational enterprise software company, has discussed the role of the company’s business cloud accounting services to simplify the management of the customer’s business financing in Africa and around the world

Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Southern Africa has launched an appeal to raise funds to fight the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo