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New Vision (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and capital across the member countries.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Heads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Leaders from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi sign a common market trade agreement.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today marks a major turning point in the history of the revived East African Community.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
President Paul Kagame yesterday arrived in Arusha, Tanzania for the 11th Summit of Heads of State of the East African Community (EAC) but it was not clear who would take over from him as Chairman of the regional bloc.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, today announced a donation of €75 million (US$112m) to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the critical hunger situation in the Horn of Africa.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
In late October, the Puntland government arrested five men of Ogadeni origin. These men came to Puntland using Somali travel documents provided by Somali authorities in Yemen.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The transitional federal government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has held press conference in Mogadishu on Friday and said that he was very sorry for the misunderstanding between the TFG, Puntland and Ahlu Sunna.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some months ago, a friend who resides in Cape Town called me a lesbian. She did not give me that honourable title because I do the things which lesbians do - which I do not know - but because I sleep late and wake up early and I do not buy pirated DVDs.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Long term lenders behind the massive Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - Kenya's largest green-field wind power scheme - are now asking for a government guarantee to cover the risks in the private-sector funded project.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Agriculture minister William Ruto Friday moved to court seeking to expunge his name from a report linking him to post-election violence.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ravaged by war for over two decades, the northern region of Uganda has arguably the highest NGO per capita in Uganda and, I could bet an arm and leg, in the whole of Africa. It is easy to know why.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
It should be a blessing for a country to have natural energy resources such as petroleum, gas, coal, water with fast running rivers and falls.
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patrickguillard | 09/08/2009
The European Commission, represented by the JRC, and the African Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), have today signed a Collaboration Agreement on scientific issues regarding land-cover dynamics. The two organisations aim to collaborate in the field of agriculture and land-cover monitoring to support food security and the management of natural resources in East Africa....