March 02, 2021
East Africa: NGOs' Pressure On Banks Threatens $3.5bn Pipeline Project Financing
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) project took a new twist on Monday when 263 non-governmental organisations sought to persuade at least 25 banks listed as potential… Read more »
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 14, 2019
Uganda: Nyege Nyege Turns Five
The Nyege Nyege International Music Festival marked its fifth anniversary this month in Uganda's Buikwe district. Read more »
September 17, 2018
Tanzania: Tanzania Cites Bias As It Changes Laws Governing Arbitration
Tanzania has moved to ensure that investor disputes are resolved locally after Attorney General Adelardus Kilangi pushed through parliament the Public Private Partnership… Read more »
August 25, 2018
East Africa: Tanzania, Uganda Sign Gas Pipeline Deal
Tanzania and Uganda have signed an agreement for the construction a natural gas pipeline. Read more »
April 07, 2018
Rwanda: Rwanda, Uganda, DRC Agree on Gorilla Protection
Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have agreed to ratify the Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) treaty to protect the ecosystem that is home to… Read more »
December 07, 2016
Tanzania: Tough Conditions for Foreigners Eyeing Land for Business in Tanzania
Tanzania is working on a new land policy that will reduce leases of land owned by foreigners from 99 years to 33 years. Read more »
May 28, 2016
Uganda: Three Brothers Among Terrorists Jailed for Role in Deadly Kampala Bombings
"In regard to each of the offence, with regard to terrorism, murder and attempted murder: Hussein Hassan Agade, Idris Magondu, Issa Ahmed Luyima, Habib Suleiman Njoroge and… 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 »
April 07, 2008
Tanzania: MPs Demand Review of Union Revenue-Sharing
The dispute over the sharing of revenue between Zanzibar and Tanzania mainland has erupted again with some Members of Parliament calling for a review of the existing arrangement. Read more »
October 23, 2007
Sudan: Impasse Threatens 2005 Pact
Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) shock decision to suspend its participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU) points at the urgent need by the… 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 »
Burundi: Peace Talks Face Collapse Over Money
The Burundi peace agreement could collapse after the South African minister facilitating the process refused to give the leader of the main rebel group $54,000 to attend a meeting… Read more »
December 12, 2006
East Africa: Now Oil-Rich Country to Join Comesa FTA
Oil-rich Libya is to become the second North African country after Egypt to join the Free Trade Area of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa). The implication… 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 »
April 04, 2006
Uganda: Govt to Use DDT Despite EU Concerns
Uganda will proceed with the use of the pesticide DDT to control malaria, despite threats by the European Union that it could lead to its agricultural exports being locked out. Read more »
November 15, 2004
Tanzania: Zanzibar to Discourage Mass Tourism
This kind of tourism is not good for the environment and the economy Read more »
February 18, 2002
Tanzania: Serengeti Lion Population Rises By Over 1,000
THE NUMBER of lions in the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania has been increasing steadily since an outbreak of the cauche distemper virus killed up to 1,000 lions in… Read more »