Eritrean Ambassador Gets Summons Over Shabaab Claims
Kenya has summoned Eritrean ambassador Beyene Russom over claims that his country is arming Somalia militia Al-Shabaab.
View ArticleEABL Shares to Fetch Sh2,060 in Public Offering
The EABL has it sells its stake at TBL at Sh2,060 per share in an initial public offering that started last Friday. Stock brokers said on Friday that the share price approved by the East African...
View ArticleInflation and Weak Shilling Need Supply Side Economics Solutions
The relatively high inflation rate at 16.8 percent and weak Shilling at about 1800 Shillings per dollar in first week of November 2011 are among the key economic and business discussion issues in...
View ArticleHeroes Off to Egypt for Cecafa Cup Preps
ZANZIBAR Heroes are to set up a training camp in Egypt ahead of the upcoming Tusker CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup due to kick off in Dar es Salaam later this month.
View ArticleMinister for Contract Scrutiny
The minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Regional Administration and Local Government, Mr George Mkuchika, yesterday admitted that bad contracts were the main cause of poor implementation...
View ArticleKenya: Unchecked Killer Weed Now Threatens State
Despite its being gazetted as a noxious weed in April 2010, and its threat to biodiversity, agriculture and human health, parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus) continues to spread across as no...
View ArticleChinese Soap in Kiswahili for Local
The first Chinese-Kiswahili soap opera would start to be aired this November by the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) through its TV channel TBC
View ArticleMillions Are Stateless, Living in Legal Limbo
What do Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, cellist/conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel, both Nobel laureates in literature, have in common?
View ArticleSharrif Wins Tanga Open Cycle Challenge
HASSAN Shariff emerged winner of the 140 kilometres cycling bicycles contest at the Vodacom Tanga Open Cycle Challenge 2011 held on Saturday.
View ArticleInvestors Buy Kampala Golf Club Land
The Directorate of Lands is to institute an investigation into the allegations that part of Tororo Golf Club land has been sold to private developers.
View ArticleUganda: Suspected Anthrax Outbreak Spreads to Mbarara
THE recent outbreak of Anthrax which killed two people and three animals in Sheema district is suspected to have spread to the neighbouring sub-county of Bubaare in Mbarara district.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Cell C and Google Launch Business Incubator
Cell C and Google has opened in Cape Town an innovation centre called Umbono in order to assist technology entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into commercial products, Business Day reports.
View ArticleUganda: Central Bank Needs to Reconsider Interest Rates
I read with great concern, the story (Uganda raises interest rate again to fight inflation), which featured in The New Vision. Uganda's inflation rate that leapt to 30.5% in October 2011, is reported...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Human Development Should Top Corporate Agenda, Says Corp VP At...
The revolutions that have been sparked in the Middle East since the start of the year may have faded in the minds of many Western media consumers but it was still very much on the minds of local speakers
View ArticleKenya: Banks' AD Spend Goes Up By 75pc in Third Quarter
Commercial banks stepped up their advertising spend by 75 per cent in the third quarter of the year as they sought new markets to boost their profit margins.
View ArticleKenya: Speedy Links Hold Future of the Internet
One of the most exciting features of the Kenyan economy is the extent with which people have adopted use of the mobile phone and most recently, the Internet.
View ArticleNigeria: House Committee Raises Concern Over Non-Funding of Acquired Banks
The chairman of the House committee on Capital Markets and Institutions, Herman Hembe (PDP, Benue), has lamented that several months after the acquisition of some troubled banks in Nigeria, some of the...
View ArticleKenya: Gatundu Call to Women
Women have been urged to go for elective positions in next year's general elections. Speaking in Gatundu, Groots Kenya coordinator Jael Amati said women should support their own if they did not want to...
View ArticleUN Calls for Action Against Killers of Peacekeeper
The Security Council today stressed the need to end impunity for those who attack peacekeepers, after one soldier serving with the joint United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur was killed and...
View ArticleNamibia: Alternative Media Rising At 'Worrying Proportion'
Alternative media in Malaysia and the world is growing at a worrying proportion, says a television producer, Azmi Atan.
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