Malaba strike blamed on Uganda customs officials When truck drivers downed their tools last week in Malaba creating kilometres of stationary traffic, their frustrations highlighted the challenges of plying the busy Kenya-Uganda corridor — a key...
Region in $3b infrastructure facelift plan Programme to boost eastern and southern Africa as investment destination
VIVIENNE YEDA APOPO (KENYA) With a background in international law, finance, and banking, Vivienne Yeda Apopo is the director general of the East African Development Bank. Yeda Apopo also served in various international...
DAPHNE SHELDRICK (KENYA) kingdom has been instrumental in helping many other elephants across the continent and beyond, in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Cameroon, as well as n...
Arable land deals with the West bad for food security Foreign-based companies are growing crops for biofuels production as opposed to food for consumption
EA plunged into darkness despite massive potential The estimated combined power generation capacity of all of sub-Saharan Africa is 68 Gigawatts — no more than that of Spain, with South Africa alone accounting for 40GW of this figure
The many faces of Yvonne Chaka Chaka Though famous for her music, South African musician Yvonne Chaka Chaka plays many roles in her public life, writes BONIFACE MWANGI
Spreading hunger tests open borders in East Africa A flood of Somali refugees puts Kenya at risk of terrorist infiltration; Dar bans food exports, fuelling blackmarket fears
Kigali asks EAC for duty waiver as sugar prices rise Rwanda faces a potential shortage of around 20,000 tonnes while current consumption stands at 40,000 tonnes
Death to Chiluba: ‘No, you can’t bring along the designer suits and shoes’ A picture of his shoe-rack shows some of these objets d’art, made out of crocodile, lizard and ostrich skin. ”
