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Kenya: Exports to Africa can spur industry – Biwott

Kenya: Exports to Africa can spur industry – Biwott

01 Aug 18  News
Since the 1980s, the manufacturing sector’s contribution to gross domestic product has been fluctuating, stagnating at 11 percent over the past five years to decline to 8.4 perce...
Kenya bags Comesa sugar safeguards for another two years, but with conditions

Kenya bags Comesa sugar safeguards for another two years, but with conditions

23 Jul 18  News
Kenya has been granted a two-year extension – possibly the last – of the sugar safeguards by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), until February 2021. T...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

13 Jul 18  News
The Ministerial session of the Sectoral Council of Ministers Responsible for EAC Affairs and Planning takes place tomorrow in Burundi. African Business interview with Prof Carlos ...
Return of free trade as Nairobi-Dar spat ends

Return of free trade as Nairobi-Dar spat ends

09 Jul 18  News
Kenyan officials have announced the end of the long-running trade dispute with Tanzania following a bilateral meeting between the two states in Dar es Salaam. The move will see Ke...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

25 Jun 18  News
Underway, in Dar es Salaam: Workshop on establishing a National Trade Facilitation Roadmap in Tanzania (25-29 June) Underway, in Victoria Falls: NEPAD Agency, PIDA_Africa strategi...
Rwanda: Industrialization and Job creation among priorities of the 2018-19 Budget

Rwanda: Industrialization and Job creation among priorities of the 2018-19 Budget

21 Jun 18  News
Government will increase spending by FRW 328.2 billion from FRW 2,115.3 billion compared to the 2017/18 revised budget FRW 2,443.5 billion in the 2018/19 fiscal year, the Minister ...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

18 Jun 18  News
Profiled African trade and regional integration events: (I) The 24th ARSO General Assembly starts today in Durban on the theme: One Africa One Market – the role of standard...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

15 Jun 18  News
AfCFTA Ratification Barometer: Number 4 - Niger; Number 5 - Mali; Number 6 - Swaziland AfCFTA agreement too narrow and hasty: Yao Graham (Graphic) The co-ordinator of the Third W...
EAC states budget 2018/2019 highlights

EAC states budget 2018/2019 highlights

14 Jun 18  News
East African Community (EAC) member states – Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda – presented the 2018/2019 budgets before their respective parliaments on Thursday afternoon. T...
South Africa on ratification of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area

South Africa on ratification of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area

14 Jun 18  News
Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry on 13 June 2018 The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) was launched in June 2015 in Egypt. Negotiations of the legal t...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

06 Jun 18  News
Concluding today, in Addis: Expert group meeting on the theme Poverty, inequality and jobs in Africa Diarise: 25th SWIFT African Regional Conference (20-22 June, Kigali) on the th...
EAC greener pasture countries for highly skilled Kenyans

EAC greener pasture countries for highly skilled Kenyans

06 Jun 18  News
Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda are the key destinations for high-skilled Kenyan migrants, attracted by opportunities in financial, IT, engineering and hospitality sectors, a new UN re...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

05 Jun 18  News
Featured tweet, @AntheVrijlandt: Frank Matsaert at Africa Summit – partnership between Europe and Africa should be about mutual trade flows. Now, for every four containers import...
EAC tables US$100m budget proposals to EALA for 2018/2019 financial year

EAC tables US$100m budget proposals to EALA for 2018/2019 financial year

05 Jun 18  News
The East African Community (EAC) has presented for consideration Budget estimates for the Financial Year 2018/2019, totaling $99,770,716 to the East African Legislative Assembly Si...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

28 May 18  News
Nigeria and the AfCFTA: National stakeholders’ sensitization and consultations, conducted by the NOTN, continue this week. Today’s consultation will be held in Calabar (South-S...
COMESA-EAC-SADC Immigration Chiefs discuss free movement

COMESA-EAC-SADC Immigration Chiefs discuss free movement

25 May 18  News
Chiefs of Immigration departments from the COMESA, EAC and SADC regions held a two-day meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss ways of introducing free movement of business persons...
AUC, Sweden and UNDP partner to speed up action on continent’s legal agreements to boost development

AUC, Sweden and UNDP partner to speed up action on continent’s legal agreements to boost development

25 May 18  News
The African Union Commission (AUC), Sweden, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have joined efforts to boost the number of African countries signing up to and adopting ...
tralac’s Daily News Selection

tralac’s Daily News Selection

22 May 18  News
The 53rd Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank opened yesterday in Busan. AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina: Korea is a model for Africa’s industrialization Underway, in...
EAC to roll out new export regime in June

EAC to roll out new export regime in June

22 May 18  News
Regional exporters of coffee, tea, fish, hides and skins are set to enjoy faster transit times from next month, when the commodities start being cleared under the Single Customs Te...
Kenya: Import cargo set for 100% inspection in fake goods war

Kenya: Import cargo set for 100% inspection in fake goods war

17 May 18  News
All consolidated import cargo will be fully inspected to weed out counterfeit, contraband and substandard goods, the government has announced. In a statement on Thursday, Industri...

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