Heads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.
Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining industries, have blamed opacity in oil and mineral licensing for the bad deals natural resource-dependent countries are often saddled with.
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.
As Muslims brace up to observe the feast of Eid -Ul-Adha, commonly known as Tobaski, some private companies in the business sector have been deploying all types of marketing strategies with a view to luring potential customers to buy their products.
VOLKSWAGEN (VW) SA said yesterday it planned to export 55000 new-generation Polos next year to destinations such as the US, Ireland and Malaysia from its flagship plant in the Eastern Cape.
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 decision to give Zimbabwe no more than a slap on the wrist for the human rights abuses which its army has committed on the Marange alluvial diamond fields in the south-east of the country seriously threatens the future of the diamond industry's initiative to avert consumer boycotts of its gemstones.
The Nigeria Customs Service has lifted the suspension placed on First Bank from customs duty collection. Our correspondent learnt from NCS officials that the Comptroller General of Customs Dikko Abdullahi gave the directive when he received a delegation of First Bank Plc who paid him a courtesy call in Abuja yesterday.
Privatisation of Mombasa port has been put on hold as the government seeks to convince critics about its viability.
As Muslims prepare for the feast of Eid-Ul Adha, locally called Tobaski, market vendors are enjoying a fair deal of their business as they start to storm the markets with their valuables being sold at cheaper rates.
The governor of Central River Region (CRR), Alhaji Ganyie Touray, accompanied by a high-powered delegation, on Wednesday, November 18, visited the ongoing construction work of the new Brikama-ba market in the Lower Fulladou District, CRR South.
Neither the long distance nor the high transport costs is the reason for shunning the Southern Corridor route.
Trade in services is one of the unresolved issues holding back further negotiations between the East African Community and the European Commission on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA's).
THE legal action instituted against Bayer CropScience AG by farmers in the United States for allegedly contaminating their farms with Genetically Modified (GM) rice seeds in 2006 is a further confirmation of the validity of tests carried out on rice samples collected by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) in Nigeria and other West African countries within the ...
