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February 3, 2020

Rwandan Companies Dominate 2019 Business Excellence Awards

Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has awarded the best and emerging business at the seventh edition of the annual Rwanda Business Excellence Awards 2019. The colorful ceremony, held in Kigali yesterday, and highlighted Rwanda’s private sector investment growth, did not recognize any winner in the customer care sector but growth made by local companies and women in […]

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February 3, 2020

Who benefits from UK-Africa trade deals?

There has been much hype about a major Africa investment summit being hosted by the UK. Attended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and an array of royals, a great deal of hopeful win-win-win rhetoric abounded linked to forging new partnerships for a post-Brexit future.At the summit, Ghana, it seems, is being given top treatment as […]

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February 3, 2020

The resilience of a Uganda woman trader has moved a community of 4000 from challenge to success

In Gulu, Northern Uganda, Santa Joyce Laker leads a cooperative society of 4,070 farmers and traders, 3,000 of whom are women. Her story is an example of recovery and resilience after disaster, rising to succeed against the impact of conflict that plagued the region for almost 20 years. From rape to death of loved ones, […]

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February 3, 2020

Tanzania and India vow to strengthen bilateral ties

Speaking at the event to mark 71 years of India’s independence at the weekend, deputy minister for Foreign Affairs and EA Cooperation Dr Damas Ndumbaro said Tanzania and India were brotherly nations and will see to it that the ties remain cemented. “Tanzania and India had long time excellent ties that began during the period […]

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January 28, 2020

Epower Forum highlights the importance of digital transformation

The Epower forum, recently hosted at Nairobi’s Movenpick Hotel, unfolded the key issues regarding the way in which E-commerce can enable cross border trade for women in light of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCFTA). In attendance were over 150 women owned SME’s. The basis of the event touched on how cross border trade […]

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January 24, 2020

Museveni to British investors: Uganda is ready to receive you, we have sufficient electricity, a skilled workforce

President Yoweri Museveni is among a dozen African leaders in London for a summit aimed at boosting the UK’s private sector investment on the continent. The summit aimed at boosting the UK’s private sector investment on the continent. ‘‘I thank the Prime Minister [the Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson] for the invitation. Like I told him […]

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January 24, 2020

Museveni pledges Sh10m to Great Lakes meeting

Great Lake Region Private Sector Forum chairman Richard Ngatia and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni after he paid the President a courtesy call atState House in Entebe, Uganda on Friday. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has pledged Sh10 million to the Great Lakes Investment and Trade Conference in March. Museveni made the pledge on Friday last week […]

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January 24, 2020

E-commerce for green trade in Africa

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January 23, 2020

Bilateral trade arrangements pay off

Deputy Minister for Trade and Industries, Eng Stella Manyanya gave the remarks here yesterday when launching the trade research and capacity building programme jointly implemented by REPOA and International Institute for Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS). “We have a number of bilateral arrangements, which collectively provide Tanzania with benefits from duty free, quota free […]

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January 14, 2020

WIB wants cross border trade between Kenya & Uganda streamlined

““Our Mission is to promote, assist and enhance economic and business development for all our members at both National and County level so as to stimulate wealth at all levels of governments right from the communities they represent,” she reckons. The two-day program was initiated by the High Commissioner of Uganda to Kenya Phoebe Otaala […]

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