May 19, 2020
Kenya: Container Traffic on the Decline at Mombasa Port
The Port of Mombasa recorded a 2.1 per cent decline in container traffic in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year. This casts doubts on the goal of… Read more »
September 06, 2015
Uganda: EAC Secretariat Backs Uganda On Sugar and Rice Trade Disputes
Uganda has received the support of the East African Community Secretariat in its sugar and rice trade disputes with Kenya and Tanzania respectively. The Secretariat said the… Read more »
August 30, 2015
East Africa: Exit Kenya's Sugar, Enter Tanzania Rice - Kampala's New Trade War
Even as recent trade wars in the East African Community have mostly featured Kenya and Uganda over sugar exports, Kampala has for the past two months been locked in a dispute with… Read more »
August 14, 2007
Africa: U.S. Allays Fears Over New Military Body
Bush administration officials are working to refute claims by both Africans and Americans that the Pentagon's new Africa Command (Africom) signals a shift in US policy away… Read more »
October 30, 2006
Kenya: Country Joins UN Drive Against Small Arms
The "havoc" caused in East Africa by unchecked trafficking in small arms is prompting Nairobi to help lead a United Nations effort to regulate the global trade in these… Read more »