Time To Focus Beyond COVID-19
The better part of the last two financial years have been marked by unprecedented global focus on COVID-19, the global pandemic that took the World by surprise. The numerous natural, economic, and intellectual resources that have been spent to contain the spread of the rapidly-mutating enigmatic disease, and to eradicate it, have been worthwhile. In […]
Combating COVID-19 and Supporting Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the globe and disrupted the lives of billions of people in every corner of the world. Eastern Africa has not been left unscathed. The pandemic has affected trade and economic activity in a fundamental way. Whereas many have weighed the impact of COVID-19 on health terms, we in trade facilitation […]
Zanzibar to Enhance Food Safety and Trade through TMA Partnership
The Zanzibar Bureau of Standards (ZBS) and TradeMark Africa (TMA) have today signed a financing agreement worth TZS 1 billion aimed at increasing efficiency and effectiveness of ZBS in the development and implementation of standards in Zanzibar. The agreement is funded by development agencies of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway through TMA. Present at […]
Finland Committed to Doubling Trade with Africa Over Next Decade
Finland Ambassador to Kenya, H.E. Pirkka Tapiola says his country is committed to doubling trade with Africa over the next decade. The ambassador spoke while touring the Port of Mombasa on Friday. The envoy commended the Government of Kenya and Development Partners for supporting Port Reforms and Modernisation Programme over the last decade that has […]
The Update – January 2022 Edition
ONE MARKET MAKING STRIDES TOWARDS FREE TRADE The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aimed at promoting cooperation and collaboration between the two organisations in their common goal of supporting trade in Africa. They committed to improve standards and increase the of trade […]
Unclogging supply chain bottlenecks: So, truckers connect us to our favourite things
The goods arrive at the port of Mombasa in big, lumbering mysterious ships. They come with impossible names like Kota Gadang, Si Hang Yun, Fox, Tramper. They come sailing under the flags of Singapore, Japan, India, Sierra Leone, Panama, China, bringing in palm oil, sorghum, kapok, coconut, sisal, cotton, vehicles, fertiliser, motorbike parts, sugar etc. […]
Moyale One Stop Border Point (OSBP) Launched by H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta & Ethiopian Prime Minister H.E. Dr. Abiy Ahmed
The Moyale One Stop Border Point (OSBP) was launched today in a colourful event officiated by H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta CGH President of the Republic of Kenya and H.E. Dr Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister, the Federal Republic of Ethiopia at the Moyale border point which adjoins the two neighbouring nations. The border point is part of the LAPSSET project, and […]
Rwanda Standards Board Launches a US$125,000 Project Automating its Services
The Rwanda Standards Board (RSB) has this morning launched a Single Window Information for Trade (SWIFT) effectively automating all its services. The US$ 125,000 project was financed by USAID Rwanda through TradeMark Africa. The automation is expected to drastically reduce the time and cost of seeking various services from the board by the business community […]
Government Of Kenya kicks off COVID-19 vaccination of women traders and long-distance truckers at Kenya’s five Border Posts
Busia, 2nd December, 2021…The Government of Kenya through the Ministries of Health (MOH) and the East African Community (MEAC), has today kicked off a vaccination drive targeting cross border women traders and long-distance truck drivers along four border entry points. The vaccination exercise funded by DANIDA and the European Union through TradeMark Africa and supported by […]
Launch of Safe Trade Zone Markets in Tog-Wajaale Ethiopia
TradeMark Africa with project implementing partner Horn of Africa Voluntary Youth Committee (HAVOYOCO), project donors European Union-IGAD (EU-IGAD) and Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office of the UK (FCDO) have today launched the US$206,000. The guest of honour at the event was Somali Regional State President H.E. Mustife Mohammed accompanied by State Minister for Women and […]