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Heads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.
The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
Long term lenders behind the massive Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - Kenya's largest green-field wind power scheme - are now asking for a government guarantee to cover the risks in the private-sector funded project.
The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.
President Paul Kagame yesterday arrived in Arusha, Tanzania for the 11th Summit of Heads of State of the East African Community (EAC) but it was not clear who would take over from him as Chairman of the regional bloc.
Today marks a major turning point in the history of the revived East African Community.
Barclays Bank of Kenya has returned a 4.2 per cent growth in pre-tax profit for the nine months ending September 30, 2009, reflecting the impact of the economic slowdown on various sectors of the economy.
Centum Investment Ltd has reported a 72 per cent drop in pre-tax profit for the six months period ended September 30, 2009.
Kenya is among the first beneficiaries of a project to increase internet usage courtesy of the World Wide Web investor Sir Tim Berners Lee.
The process of re-verifying 25 containers of sugar which has been detained at the port of Mombasa for the last two years has begun.
Buoyed by returning off-shore investors especially in the oil sector, increased remittances from Ugandans working abroad, and inflows from exports, the shilling has appreciated 25% against the dollar over a six months ending October 31.
MTN has set a precident in acquiring quick money from Uganda's financial market. It is the first to raise money through a syndicated loan in the country's history. Will other corporations also follow?
On October 16th 2009, University of Oxford's Prof. Paul Collier gave a talk at Serena Conference Centre in Kampala on the prospects of an oil windfall for Uganda. Below we produce a slightly edited version of his speech.
Two months after the ministry of Health recommended a ban on production, sell, and consumption of alcohol packed in sachets allegedly because it had killed 18 people, the measure remains controversial in parliament, Cabinet, and the public. The Independent talked to the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) Manager for Quality Assurance Patrick Ssekitoleko.
Tullow Oil Plc, the U.K. explorer with the most licences in Africa has appointed Standard Chartered Plc to sell up to half its stakes in two Ugandan oil fields, the Sunday Times of London has reported.
The Italian company, Eni SpA (E) is looking at a large amount of Tullow Oil confidential data as part of its due diligence process for buying a stake in Uganda's oil ventures.
The Mo Ibrahim Award for excellence in African leadership has in its short lifetime become one of the world's most talked about honours.
Orange Uganda was awarded best exhibitor in the ICT and Internet Sector at the 17th Uganda International Trade Fair organised by the Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA).
Who is to blame?
On October 16, 2009, Oxford's Prof. Paul Collier gave a talk at Serena Hotel in Kampala on the prospects of an oil windfall in Uganda. Unlike in most of his work, this time Collier did not focus on how the international community (read the West) can help Uganda use its oil revenues well; his entire speech, though sounding like a primary school headmaster advising his pupils, was about what we ...
It should be a blessing for a country to have natural energy resources such as petroleum, gas, coal, water with fast running rivers and falls.
Shs 500bn spent on army per year but soldiers live in huts, lack toilets, dead bodies kept in patients wards
On October 26 presidential advisor on Religious Affairs Albert Byaruhanga died when his car knocked two pedestrians at Kyanda on Mubende Mityana road leaving one dead.
Air passengers in East Africa will each be levied $0.7 (about Sh920) to support the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (Cassoa) finance ministers of the EAC member states approve the proposal.
Twists and turns have continued to surround the disposal of 296 tonnes of fish seized earlier this year in a foreign ship.
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