Experts say regional body is ‘club of suspicious people’ Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania’s recent call for the evaluation of the East African Community legal instruments to reflect current times has elicited mixed reactions among regional analysts. When President Suluhu recently met top …
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Nairobi, Kenya | XINHUA | The East African Community (EAC), a regional economic bloc, is planning to develop a COVID-19 economic recovery plan to help the region rebuild from the negative effect of the pandemic.Juvenal Ndimurirwo, director of finance for the EAC Secretariat, told a virtual meeting Friday that the …
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Dodoma, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | MP Condester Michael Sichlwe, 31 was thrown out of Tanzania’s parliament Tuesday, wearing ‘tight-fitting trousers’, referred to locally as ‘suruali iliyombana’. After another CCM party MP Hussein Amar sought guidance on the dressing code, Speaker of Parliament Job Ndugai threw her out for wearing ‘non-parliamentary …
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Policy, righting wrongs and circumventing curses as oil presents huge opportunities and significant risks COMMENT | DENNIS JJUUKO | Uganda has signed a pipeline deal with Tanzania and Total to transport crude oil from Uganda’s Albertine region to Tanzania’s Tanga port for refining, but the secrecy that surrounds this $3.5 …
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A joint team of experts will be set up to address the disjointed enforcement of cross-border Covid-19 containment protocols Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya and Tanzania have agreed to eliminate barriers hindering the smooth flow of trade and people between the two East African nations. The decision was …
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Kenya and Tanzania to scrap tariff barriers and other restrictions frustrating trade and investment between the two countries Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenya and Tanzania on Tuesday agreed to abolish barriers hindering the smooth flow of trade and people between the two neighboring countries. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and visiting Tanzanian …
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Mwanza, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | President Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken a decision to cut taxes on workers pay despite Tanzania’s economic growth slowing from 6.9% to 4.7%. Government will promote at least 85,000 workers, but she however says the economy cannot yet afford a general salary increase. …
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The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline is a project with multiple dire social, economic and environmental impacts COMMENT | VANESSA NAKATE AND LANDRY NINTERETSE | Dear Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, building the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline in the midst of a climate …
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Why experts don’t know whether to celebrate or criticise Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Final agreements to kick-start production of oil in Uganda have taken over 10 years of bickering and anxious negotiation. But when they were finally signed on April 11, many watchers said they were unsure …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Uganda oil agreements: Why experts don’t know whether to celebrate or criticise THE LAST WORD Michela Wrong’s Rwanda hatchet job part 2: She was taken for a ride by Karegyeya, Kayumba, Sendashonga’s wife …
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