Energy, Finance, Foreign News, Infrastructure

Standard Bank arranges for $120m for Zimbabwe power

May 17

May 17– South Africa’s Standard Bank has joined the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development […]

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Business, Finance, Foreign News

Rwanda projecting 6.2pc growth in 2017

May 5

KIGALI, MAY 05 – Rwanda expects economic growth to rebound to 6.2 percent in 2017 after […]

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Business, Foreign News, Technology & Telecoms

No ownership caps yet in Rwanda broadcast sector

April 30

KIGALI, APRIL 30 – Rwanda’s media sector cannot be closed to foreign participation at this point […]

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Foreign News, Land & Agriculture

Rwanda deploys military to stop Army-worm invasion

April 23

KIGALI, APRIL 23 – The Rwanda Defence Forces have been deployed to contain an invasion of […]

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Foreign News, Hydrocarbons, Investment, Trade & Industry

Ugandan leader visits world’s top gas exporter

April 19

April 19–President Yoweri Museveni and wife, Janet, arrived in Doha at the start of a three-day […]

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Financial Services, Foreign News, Policy, Technology & Telecoms

58 banks in Tanzania as mobile money rolls on

April 12

April 12— Tanzania presently has 58 banks and a per capita reach of 2.5 bank branches […]

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Foreign News, Policy

Africans denied US visas as Trump effect bites

March 20

March 20–VOA, the United States foreign broadcaster, reports of a recent case that reflects how President […]

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Business, Companies, Finance, Financial Services, Foreign News

Pan-African push for $500m trade finance

March 1

March 1-Ugandan private sector customers of Ecobank will soon have a chance to apply for trade […]

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Foreign News, Land & Agriculture

Uganda caught up in UN shortage

February 22

February 22–The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR and the World Food Programme (WFP), are desperately fundraising […]

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Foreign News

Here is how Trump’s travel ban is a throwback to a familiar but dark past

February 1

To my Jewish, Irish, Asian and Italian friends Joshua Brown CEO at Ritholtz Wealth Management To my […]

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