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April 20, 2020

IOTA and TradeMark Africa partner to improve infrastructure and trade through technology

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March 23, 2020

IOTA Announces Partnership with TradeMark Africa to Bring Supply Chain Transparency to Trade Infrastructure

IOTA Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and open-source ecosystem development, announced today a partnership with TradeMark Africa (TMA). The goal of the partnership is to help TMA in its mission to improve East African trade and global competitiveness using IOTA’s distributed ledger technology. TMA works closely with the East African […]

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January 16, 2020

EAC intra-trade rose by 5.6 per cent in 2018, figures say

Arusha. Intra-regional exports within the East African Community (EAC) bloc grew by 5.6 per cent in 2018, wile cross-border imports shot up by 13.9 per cent. Cross-border exports during the year amounted to $3.2 billion in value, up from $2.9 billion in 2017, according to the EAC Trade and Investment Report for 2019. The marginal […]

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January 14, 2019

Take advice on new road loads seriously

It is consternating that the controversy arising from the implementation of the East African Community Vehicle Load Control Act of 2016 is burgeoning out of proportion in Tanzania. Among other provisions, the legislation sets maximum limits for road vehicle axle loads, as well as weight of the vehicles themselves. In the event, vehicles with a […]

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March 3, 2017

South Sudan to appoint representatives to East African Parliament

South Sudan’s government said it will appoint six members of its parliament as representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly in an attempt to fulfil its obligations of becoming a full member of the regional bloc. South Sudan foreign affairs spokesman Mawien Makol Ariik, told Radio Tamazuj that once a membership fee of one million […]

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November 15, 2016

South Sudan and Uganda agree to one-stop border crossings

Ambassador Joseph Ayok Anei, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, says that his government has signed an agreement to create one-stop border crossings between South Sudan and Uganda. Speaking on Monday at a news conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ayok said the agreement was signed on 8 November in order to simplify and expedite border […]

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May 19, 2016

South Sudanese to be exempt from East African visa fees

South Sudanese citizens will not have to pay entry fees to East African nations, according to a top diplomat. “The protocol that deals with visa and travel will begin in January next year. South Sudanese will pay the entry fee until January and after that they can be exempted” said Jimmy Deng, charge d’affaires of South Sudan […]

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May 3, 2016

Opinions vary on South Sudan joining East African Community

South Sudanese opinion leaders have voiced their views on the decision by president Salva Kiir to admit their nation into the East African Community. The East African Community (EAC) is a trade bloc initially founded by three east African countries before expanding its membership to include Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. Members of the […]

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January 12, 2016

Rwanda and Burundi – Democracy At Its Best

A few of us ‘pundits’ were invited on the now popular TV show “Debate 411” that is hosted by the gregarious Eugene Anangwe to discuss democracy in Africa and, in particular, the communiqué by the United States in which it stated that it was “deeply disappointed” by the decision by President Paul Kagame to seek […]

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