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The President of Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has called for more funding and planning to implement the East Africa Community and economic and political integration projects. He says that East African countries are repeating great benefits from the economic integration efforts so far achieved. Kikwete said this while delivering the State of the East African […]
SPEECH BY H.E. JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, TO THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SECOND EAST AFRICAN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY; Parliament Buildings, Nairobi, Kenya, 25 May 2010 Rt Hon. Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly; Rt Hon. Kenneth Marende, Speaker of the Kenyan Parliament; Honourable Chairperson […]
The New Vision on Thursday announced it has acquired a new state of the art printery and started a Luganda Television station in its latest “expansion” efforts. This followed recent addition of five radio stations (Vision Voice, Bukedde fm, Radio West, Etop Radio and Radio Rupiny) to its newspaper brands of The New Vision, Sunday […]
Ultimate Media The East African investment conference has ended today with a call to member states of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi to implement recommendations aimed at fostering economic growth at regional level. The conference attended by over 2500 delegates has resolved to tackle non-tariff and improve investment in electricity generation to boost […]
East Africa is proud to announce that Uganda will host the 3rd East African Community Investment Conference, in Kampala from 27th – 30th April, 2010. The East African Community now stands as a region that operates under a fully-fledged Customs Union. In November 2009, the East African states signed the Common Market Protocol that will […]
Kenya has lifted a ban on Uganda sugar importation. This has been confirmed by the minister of state for Trade David wakikona . The mps recently had protested the ban saying that Kenya act of issuing a ban on Ugandan sugar into the Kenyan market was a violation against the east African common market protocol. […]
The Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development, maria Kiwanuka on Thursday read the 2013/2014 national budget, in which she outlines governments plan to increase revenue collection through more taxes. The minister says the government intends to finance 80% of the budget. Here you can download Budget speech 2013-14 or read in belown full II. […]
The 19th source of the Nile National Agricultural and trade show is scheduled for this month. Addressing a news conference at the show grounds in Jinja, Uganda National Farmers’ Federation Association president Charles Ogang said the trade show commences on July 18th and runs to July 24th at the Source of the Nile grounds in […]
The Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry has urged the business community to be vigilant in reporting cases of Non Trade Barriers to the National Monitoring Committee on NTBs if the government is to effectively deal with the challenge of Non Trade Barriers in the country. After the opening of borders following the start of […]
The Executive Director of the Private Sector Foundation Uganda, Gideon Badagawa has appealed to business owners to re- think and re-construct their business strategies such that they can reflect regional perspectives. This comes barely a month after the opening of the East African borders under the common market that kicked off on 1 July 2010. […]