Search Results for: integration

September 1, 2014

EAC to harmonize integration through PPP

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – The East African and Central members states have being agreed to work together through Public Private Partnership (PPP) to revamp the regional infrastructure system in harmonizing regional integration to foster social and economic development in the region. Speaking to invited delegates during the two days 5th East and Central Africa […]

Read More
September 1, 2014

Dar pushes single customs territory, rail efficiency

In an effort to reduce congestion at the Dar es Salaam port, the government has begun to improve the central railway line including rehabilitating locomotives that will be used to transfer containers to East African Community member states. This will go in tandem with the construction of international standard gauge railway line that will link […]

Read More
September 1, 2014

Tanzania becomes Kenya’s largest East Africa market

Tanzania has edged past Uganda as Kenya’s largest export market in East Africa as a result of the ongoing elimination of non-tariff barriers and increasing local production in Uganda of goods that were previously imported. Uganda has traditionally been Kenya’s top trading partner in the region, but latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of […]

Read More
September 1, 2014

$600m highway to link Kenya, Tanzania

The East African Community is finalising plans for a transnational highway to link the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts. The 460km highway, expected to cost $600 million, will start in Malindi, pass through Mombasa and Lunga Lunga on the Kenyan side, across to Tanga, then on through Pangani and Saadani to Bagamoyo in northeastern Tanzania. The […]

Read More
September 1, 2014

Burundi plans to join CoW as an observer

Burundi plans to join the Coalition of the Willing (CoW) as an observer for six months before deciding whether it will be part of infrastructure projects being pushed by Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda to expedite regional integration. Burundian Minister for East African Community Affairs Leontine Nzeyimana told the Senate that the government feels it was […]

Read More
August 26, 2014

Expanding intra-African trade

African is a continent in conflict with itself, when our leaders talk about the diplomatic relations of our countries; we know there is more to what meets the ear. Amongst young Africans we hear loud shouts about Robert Sobukwe`s ideologies about pan Africanism but how willing are African to work together to create an Africa […]

Read More
August 26, 2014

Rwanda stands out in trade

Nairobi — Rwanda is ranked first with a score of 3.52 in this year’s East Africa Logistics Performance trade survey. The survey pities the East African Community member states against each other in a bid to establish deterrents of effective trade within the region. The 2014 Logistics Performance Survey (LPS), annual report published by the […]

Read More
August 25, 2014

East Africans seeking to unlock trade talks with European Union

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism Phyllis Kandie said Friday the meeting to be held in Nairobi would help resolve contentious issues blocking the signing of the agreement. “Some of the pending issues are at ministerial level and we are working with our partners in the East African Community (EAC) to have […]

Read More
August 21, 2014

Good progress being made on African tripartite FTA

It was indicated, at the recent 34th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of States and Governments Summit, that negotiations for the tripartite free trade agreement (FTA), with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC), are at an advanced stage. A timetable for the SADC-COMESA-EAC tripartite FTA, […]

Read More
August 18, 2014

Double taxation a stumbling block towards trade boost in EAC

The Common Market Protocol aimed to provide free movement of goods; labour; services; and capital, which will significantly boost trade and investments and make the region more productive and prosperous. With the integration process still in progress, it’s becoming a challenge to boost trade within the East African Community because of the double taxation. The […]

Read More