Cranes set on retaining title Uganda has vowed to retain the East and Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup, to be staged in Tanzania this month.
World market wakes up and smells East African coffee's exciting new aroma The aroma of coffee from East Africa is permeating the world market, an indication of increased revenues, as supply from South and Central America take a nose dive.
Bharti Airtel enters deal with global leaders, boosts Africa's BPO sector The Business Process Outsourcing sector in Africa is set for a major boost after Bharti Airtel picked IBM, Tech Mahindra and Spanco as partners to handle its customer care services across its...
Tanzania-Zambia power pool link to be completed in 2012 A link for two major power pools in southern and east Africa should be operational by 2012, a tripartite meeting bringing together three of the continent’s trade blocs announced on Thursday.
EA govts at a loss over how to fight off invasion of deadly, noxious weeds In April, Kenya listed Parthenium hysterophorus as a noxious weed explaining that it has the potential to reduce yields in some crops by as much as 40 per cent.
For two hours every day, 10 countries in East and Southern Africa will have the option of tuning into a new set of radio programmes — all broadcast in Kiswahili.
Kadzamira's 30-year journey with Banda In the Malawian political lexicon, she was known simply as Mama Kadzamira (mother of the nation).
Trade disputes between Comesa countries and overlapping membership spell double trouble Zambia has now requested the Secretariat of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to intervene to urgently resolve longstanding disputes with Kenya over the latter’s exports of...
Emulate Kenya, discard post-colonial laws, experts tell African nations The Committee of Experts that drafted Kenya’s new Constitution are sending a strong message to African countries and the EAC member states in particular, to discard post-colonial constitutions...
Comesa approves penalties on countries erecting NTBs Faced with a new wave of protectionism, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has now drafted new rules to empower its Secretariat to penalise countries that introduce restrictive...
