Paris Club has granted Kenya’s request for a suspension of its debt service. Through the organisation’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), the Paris Club gave Kenya…
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AfDB will also dedicate efforts to creating opportunities for women in the non-financial sectors.
According to the Bank of Tanzania’s monthly economic review for December, the improvements “were mainly attributed on account of upper exports of products including a decline in imports bill.”
The news of the 5G mobile network suspension came as a surprise to many, given that the company had already concluded trials and testing of the new network’s high-speed mobile connections.
According to the World Customs Organisation (WCO), inconsistent and obsolete laws and regulations, and resistance to change and lack of transparency in Customs administration operations in most African countries are major challenges to ensuring that the free trade takes off and continues uninterrupted in the operational phase starting this month.
The footbridge connecting Mainland south to Mombasa Island is the first pedestrian footbridge built at the Likoni crossing channel by the State Department of Infrastructure.
Zambia Statistics Agency, in its latest report, says the country’s inflation accelerated by 1.8 percentage points in December from the previous month. The annual inflation rose…
Kenya had earlier barred the importation of sugar from Uganda, arguing that most of Uganda’s sugar did not originate from the country to benefit from regional trade protocols.
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which brings together all the African countries with a combined gross domestic product of $3 trillion, had initially been scheduled to be launched on July 1. The implementation was postponed for six months due to the Covid-19 global pandemic that led to lockdowns and restricted movement.
The Kenyan Parliament has voted for the cessation of COVID-19 tax reliefs introduced to help cushion the dire effects of the pandemic. The Kenyan government in…