Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged $30 billion in an effort to counter China’s influence on the continent as Tunisia hosted the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development. Speaking virtually Saturday to a conference in Tunis focused on Japanese investment in Africa’s development, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged $30 billion (€30.1 billion) over three years in…
“A Cecafa title, Most Valuable Player award and playing in CAF Champions League. It is God.” These were the sentiments of Harambee Starlets midfielder Vivian Corazone moments after lifting the Cecafa Women Club Championship to help Simba Queens qualify for the Caf Women Champions League. The overjoyed Aquino lifted the prestigious regional trophy after netting the lone goal via…
“A Cecafa title, Most Valuable Player award and playing in CAF Champions League. It is God.” These were the sentiments of Harambee Starlets midfielder Vivian Corazone moments after lifting the Cecafa Women Club Championship to help Simba Queens qualify for the Caf Women Champions League. The overjoyed Aquino lifted the prestigious regional trophy after netting the lone goal via…
A high-level group of eminent African jurists has arrived in Kenya to observe the proceedings of the 2022 presidential petitions at the Supreme Court. They are all members of the Africa Judges and Jurists Forum. The mission is headed by Mohammed Chande Othman, the retired chief justice of Tanzania. Others include Justice Lilian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza of the Supreme Court of…
New $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI launches in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda to catalyze investment in agriculture, energy, and transportation infrastructure NEW YORK and NAIROBI /PRNewswire/ — The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to accelerate economic development and promote climate resilient infrastructure investment across sub-Saharan Africa. Leveraging…
New $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI launches in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda to catalyze investment in agriculture, energy, and transportation infrastructure NEW YORK and NAIROBI /PRNewswire/ — The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to accelerate economic development and promote climate resilient infrastructure investment across sub-Saharan Africa. Leveraging…
UKEREWE is the largest island in Lake Victoria and the largest inland island in Africa, with an area of approximately 530 square kilometre. Ukerewe Island is situated in the Ukerewe District, nearly 50 km north of Mwanza to which it is linked by ferry, and it takes 3 to 4 hours to travel. Ukerewe Island is situated 45 km…
In a legal notice signed by the EAC Council of Ministers chair Betty Maina, the companies can now import, at zero percent for a year, raw materials and inputs for the manufacture of wire products Tanzanian companies have been granted exemption on imported products that attract 35 percent duty, barely a month after the EAC Common External Tariff came…
Leaders from Japan and African nations on Sunday said the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine has caused a food crisis on the fast-growing continent, without referring to Moscow by name. “We underscore with deep concern the negative socio-economic impact of this (Ukraine) crisis, which has created food insecurity in Africa in the challenging context” of the post-COVID era, the…
ANGOLA’S just-ended elections will go down the annals of history for the chastening defeat of the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the capital Luanda. The disgrace ends MPLA’S almost five-decade stranglehold. By ceding some control to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), MPLA has joined a growing trend in the…