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Uganda regulator orders social media shutdown before tense polls

Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says soldiers raided his home two days before crucial vote. Uganda’s communications regulator has ordered internet service providers...
Rwandan Hotelier to Be Tried for Forming a Rebel Group

KIGALI – Rwanda’s prosecution on Monday said it intends to hold a joint trial of Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the 2004 film “Hotel...
Kenya’s women entrepreneurs lack access to capital, study finds

Raising start-up capital is one of the biggest challenges for women entrepreneurs in Kenya’s key manufacturing sector, with banks requiring collateral that most of...
Suspected Arms Dealers Moved Millions in Somali Money Transfers

NAIROBI – Somali money transfer companies moved more than $3.7 million in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, including to a Yemeni...
No crossing the border; Kenyan and Ugandan traders resort to mobile money and smuggling.

By Pius Sawa, Kakamega- Kenya For many years Ugandans and Kenyans have relied on each other for cross border business at Busia point. Not...
Kenya’s Biggest Tourist Event is Going Unnoticed

The wildebeest migration – one of UNESCO’s Wonders of the World – attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists in a typical year. But this...
Tanzania bans Kenya Airways from flying into country

Tanzania has banned Kenya’s national carrier from flying into the country, the latest move in a deepening row between the two neighbouring countries. The...
Kenya’s Wambui Gichuri Appointed as Acting Vice President of the African Development Bank Group

Gichuri who joined the bank in 2018, will act as the Vice President for agriculture, human and social development. She has been serving as...
Kenya Eases Lockdown to Revive Economy

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a phased reopening of the country, with the resumption of international flights from August 1 as well as...
Megaprojects in Addis Ababa Raise Questions about Ethiopia’s Spatial Justice and Urban Design

Urban investments across the African continent are at an all-time high. Yet the nature of these investments differs starkly across cities. Many of them are...

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Uganda regulator orders social media shutdown before tense polls

Rwandan Hotelier to Be Tried for Forming a Rebel Group

Kenya’s women entrepreneurs lack access to capital, study finds

Suspected Arms Dealers Moved Millions in Somali Money Transfers

No crossing the border; Kenyan and Ugandan traders resort to mobile money and smuggling.

Kenya’s Biggest Tourist Event is Going Unnoticed

Tanzania bans Kenya Airways from flying into country

Kenya’s Wambui Gichuri Appointed as Acting Vice President of the African Development Bank Group

Kenya Eases Lockdown to Revive Economy

Megaprojects in Addis Ababa Raise Questions about Ethiopia’s Spatial Justice and Urban Design

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