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Tanzania will receive a $305 million loan from the World Bank to expand its main port in it main commercial city Dar es Salaam, where congestion and inefficiencies are hampering ambitions to transform the east African nation into a regional …
Continue readingSomalian authorities have set February 8, 2017 as the new date for the presidential elections which have been postponed four times since last year.The electoral commission announced the new date in a statement on Wednesday.
The reason for the postponements …
Continue readingThe African continent is home to only one fully fledged democracy, Mauritius, according to a recently released index from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The list, which takes into account things like electoral procedures, civil liberties, and political participation, classified seven …
Continue readingThe African continent is home to only one fully fledged democracy, Mauritius, according to a recently released index from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The list, which takes into account things like electoral procedures, civil liberties, and political participation, classified seven …
Continue readingPresident Museveni and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have agreed on the plan to make River Nile a transportation highway to the Mediterranean Sea to reduce import-export costs.
President Museveni said at the signing of a memorandum of understanding …
Continue readingThe United Kingdom has said it will have a free hand to sign better deals with Kenya once it completes its exit from the European Union.
UK High Commissioner to Kenya Nic Hailey said that without the restrictions that go …
Continue readingAt least 95 per cent of eligible voters have already validated their personal details on the national voters’ registrar with the majority using internet and mobile phones through short message services, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has said.
Since November, …
Continue readingPresident Kagame has told members of the diplomatic corps that presidential elections slated for August 4, 2017 will be conducted in a fair, transparent and peaceful way as others had been held before in the country.
“We are looking forward …
Continue readingTunisia will offer foreign investors and financiers participation in $50bn of projects as it seeks to create jobs to maintain political stability, the country’s investment minister said.
The projects range from construction of a new deep-water port at Enfidha in …
Continue readingAfrica’s richest man Aliko Dangote has partnered with China’s heavy duty truck group Sinotruck to set up a $100 million plant to assemble trucks and cars in Nigeria for local use and export
, the executive director of Dangote group …
