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On the face of it, a lot has been taking place on the economic front to place East Africa on an international pedestal – the chief event being the 14th Session of the United Nations Conference on...
Theresa May, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Simonetta Sommaruga, Angela Merkel; and Coming soon: Hillary Clinton.
THE first time I spoke with Nelson Mandela was in 1994, when he called to ask me to help fund South Africa’s first multi-racial election. It’s not every day that Nelson Mandela called, so I...
I must make a clean breast that suggesting some criminals be hanged is not such cool, especially for the biggies who commit graft-related crimes aka Ufwisadi. I know; my pals, human rights...
POLICE in Kenya have announced the arrest of three officers suspected in the extrajudicial killing of Nairobi-based human rights lawyer Willie Kimani, his client, Josephat Mwendwa, and taxi driver...
WHAT does the extrajudicial killing of a lawyer, his client and a taxi driver in Kenya have in common with the 40th anniversary of the raid on Entebbe by Israeli forces?
THAT young people need to be more involved in EAC Secretariat missions is a point that has been made time and again. The Council of Ministers, which has now reiterated this same point at its...
The Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016 has recorded improvement of on the coverage of vaccinations among all children born in the five years preceding...
THE ministers of Finance and Health from the East African Community partner states have finally noted what was all along obvious to the rest of us: That reduced funding for HIV/Aids programmes was...
With the Kigali, Rwanda, African Union (AU) summit around the corner, there has been no official confirmation so far that Tanzania’s immediate former president, Dr Jakaya Kikwete will run for the...
After President Joni Makufuli revved up his efforts to increase the revenues for the hunk by chopping hishimiwa’s dosh, boozer, too, wants to add up by cutting kanywaji and bangi down so that he...
With increasing water scarcity across the world, the focus has often been on small farmers and how new but simple agriculture technologies could help them to produce enough food to meet their...
The economic outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa for 2016 gives room for cautious optimism. A 4.7 per cent increase in GDP across the region in 2016 has been higher than expected.