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July 24, 2014

RWANDA SPEEDY ON EAC TARGETS

On June, 25th 2013, Heads of State of Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda held a tri-lateral meeting in Entebbe Uganda. The outcome was agreements on several different issues dealing with regional infrastructure development, energy, trade facilitation and the East African Political Federation. During this meeting the three Partner States were allocated different jobs to speed up […]

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July 24, 2014

SETTING IN TRAIN AFRICA’S RAILWAYS

China and Kenya signed a co-financing deal on Sunday to build a railway linking Nairobi to Mombasa, a critical infrastructure project to boost regional trade and deepen integration in East Africa. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said interconnection in East Africa and in Africa at large will fundamentally boost economic development of African countries. Several Chinese […]

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July 24, 2014

EXPERTS WARN EAC AGAINST COMMODITY TRADE RELIANCE

A workshop conducted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned East African Community (EAC) members against being reliant on donors and volatile commodity exports as the main sources of revenue. The warning by the participants, who included representatives of the finance ministries and central banks in the EAC member countries, was contained in a […]

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July 24, 2014

GOOD TRADE LESSONS FOR MOMBASA FROM A CITY IN CALIFORNIA

When Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho visited the United States at the end of April, I learnt that my home town of Mombasa and the city of Long Beach in southern California were sister cities. In all fairness, there wasn’t any way to know about the sibling connection. There haven’t been any shared projects between the […]

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July 24, 2014

NEW CLEARING SYSTEM SAVES UGANDA AND RWANDA $469M

Uganda and Rwanda have saved up to $469 million in the cost of clearing goods since the East African Single Customs Territory (SCT) was rolled out at the port of Mombasa in January. An EAC ministers’ report from last week’s 5th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Meeting held in Nairobi shows that the clearance time for […]

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July 24, 2014

CARGO TRACKING SYSTEM TO SAVE FIRMS $1.2M A YEAR

Business owners in Uganda are expected to save up to $1.2 million a year following the launch of an electronic system that helps owners of goods, clearing agents and transporters to monitor the location and status of their cargo while in transit. The new system launched by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is expected to […]

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July 24, 2014

KENYA’S MAIN MOMBASA PORT TRAFFIC UP 9 PCT IN Q1, EXPANSION CONTINUES

Kenya’s main port of Mombasa handled 9 percent more cargo in the first quarter of this year helped by an expansion programme that had improved efficiency, the port’s management said on Thursday. The Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, the biggest in east Africa and the region’s trade gateway, handles fuel and consumer goods imports as […]

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July 24, 2014

EU URGED TO LOOK AT AFRICA AS EQUAL PARTNER

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the East African Community (EAC) member States should not be based on the economic imbalance between the two parties but on the quality of trade that exists, Kenya’s flower industry has pleaded. The Kenya Flower Council CEO Jane Ngige on Thursday challenged the […]

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July 24, 2014

EAC COUNTRIES PROPOSE TAXES ON AIR TICKETS

The Council of Ministers under the East African Community (EAC) have proposed an imposition of a levy on air tickets purchased in the five member countries as part of a raft of measures tailored to raising revenue necessary to scale down the community’s donor dependency for its budget. In the current financial year, the secretariat […]

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July 24, 2014

DEEPENING NIGERIA AND KENYA TRADE

As the trade delegation from Kenya accompanied the President to Nigeria this week, manufacturers are upbeat about the efforts by government to open new markets in the African region. Oil rich Nigeria is now the largest economy in Africa with a gross domestic product (GDP) of about $490 billion and a population of over 168 […]

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