By Fidel Amakye Owusu Eritrea: Honestly, I wasn’t even asking for the spotlight. Chad: Hey, I just held an election not too long ago. And wait...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu With the highest number of countries in the world, being the second-largest continent, and with a diverse sociocultural landscape, the security dynamics...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2022, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the second-largest and fourth-most populous country in Africa, joined the East African Community...
Reuters | The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved over US$696 million in financing for a rail project to link Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic...
By Morgan J. Robinson Kiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and the globe. It’s been adopted as a working language at the African...
By Gregory Simpkins All too often, the international media and even those considered to be Africa experts focus on the crises that are evident in African...
Bird Story Agency | Tanzania and Burundi have floated a tender for designing and constructing an electrified railway that will initially connect the two countries and...
A decision to set up the East African Monetary Institute (EAMI) – the Central Bank of East Africa – will be made this year, a key...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
Bloomberg | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) joined the East African Community (EAC), bringing the regional trading bloc’s market size to a quarter of...
The East African | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will officially be admitted to the East Africa Community (EAC) next week, adding a 90...
By John M. Mugane Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
AP | Burundi’s government now says it will accept COVID-19 vaccines, becoming one of the last countries in the world to embrace them. But the health...
Since 1996, Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa's Higherlife Foundation has provided education to vulnerable and orphaned African children.
The African Union on Friday authorized sending 5,000 peacekeepers to Burundi to stop the unrest there from deteriorating further over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s extended tenure in...
The East African Community (EAC) comprising Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya has increased import duty on rice in a move to discourage cheap imports of...
The number of mobile phone users in Burundi rose 13 percent in 2013 from the year before as most operators expanded their infrastructure networks, the industry...
Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are looking for an adviser to help them secure financing for a $4.13 billion railway project aimed at boosting cross-border trade in...
Upcoming entrepreneurs in East Africa have been given a gleam of hope after the announcement of a 20 million dollar fund. The fund, named the Novastar...
The private sector and government seized on the hosting of the 11th conference and exhibition of the African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA) in Bujumbura on 13-15...
East African states agreed on Thursday to deploy troops in South Sudan by mid-April to help enforce a ceasefire deal between government forces and rebels, the...
East African integration is moving closer to reality with the signing of the East African Monetary Union Protocol during the Heads of State Summit to be...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Bloomberg) – Uganda is looking for a lead investor to develop a refinery estimated to cost US$2.5 billion, two weeks...
Ask anyone with insider knowledge of Africa’s regional economic communities – and they will tell you that most of the issues keeping Africa apart are not...
While the U.S. Federal Reserve prints the greenback with what some may refer to as feverish abandon; and much as this may, in negative extremity, lead...
East African financial institution, the Kenya Commercial Bank has announced another round of layoffs. This comes 2 years after the bank started reducing on staffing costs...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
Gael Bigirimana. PHOTO/Coventry City Banter Gael Bigirimana was walking to the supermarket with his brother to buy some milk when he spotted Coventry City’s academy training...
(Bloomberg) — Inflation in East Africa may slow this year as food prices ease, while rising oil costs will probably boost imports and widen trade deficits,...
Economies of the East African Community (EAC) member states grew by more than five per cent last year, making the region one of the fastest growing...
Construction of the US$4.7 billion railway line linking Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania will begin in 2014, after the three governments finalize fund raising activities. Tanzania and...
Uganda, Tanzania raise the red flag against Khartoum’s practice of Sharia law, treatment of women. Khartoum’s application to join the East African Community (EAC) was on...
Businesses in East Africa have continued to thrive and grow despite a global downward economic trend, a report by a UK based research organization indicates. The...
Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defense officials said the country has the...
