Uganda Takes Stock of Its Biggest Economic Shake-Ups In 2018

Kampala City By Ismail Musa Ladu and Christine Kasemiire The National Budget While delivering the Budget Speech for financial Year 2018/19 in June, finance minister Matia Kasaija said: « Economic stability has been consistently maintained with the economy growing at an average annual rate of growth of 6.5 per cent for the last 30 years, together […]

Wholly Made-in-Africa Smart Phone to Debut in 2019

The Maraphone is high-spec, affordable, smart, transformative and in line with the Bank’s Industrialize Africa High 5 priority African high-tech player Mara on Friday announced the production of their newest product the Maraphone – the first made-in-Africa, full-scale smartphone, soon to be manufactured in plants across Africa. « China has Huawei, Xiaomi; the U.S has iPhone […]

The Going Not So Good at Nigeria’s Petroleum Corporation

By Chineme Okafor Abuja — The August 2018 edition of the monthly financial and operations report of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) released Thursday indicated that after about six months of recording back-to-back profit on its operations, the corporation slid back to loss-making with about N3.90 billion incurred as operational deficit for the period. […]

Tanzania Makes Enticing Offer to Investors

By Alfred Zacharia [e-mail] Dar es Salaam — The government will provide free land to investors who would be interested in establishing industries involved in making building and construction materials, a cabinet minister has revealed. Opening the 21st Buldexpo yesterday, the minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Mr Wlliam Lukuvi, told the business […]

Partnerland von Rheinland-Pfalz Ruanda wirbt beim FC Arsenal

  Ruanda hat einen millionenschweren Werbevertrag mit dem Fußballclub FC Arsenal geschlossen. Zugleich bekommt das afrikanische Land jedes Jahr viele Millionen Entwicklungshilfe, auch aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Passt das zusammen? 1:59 min Mehr Info Ruanda wirbt beim FC Arsenal Der ruandische Präsident Paul Kagame ist bekennender FC Arsenal Fan. Der Werbedeal klingt wie eine viel zu teure […]

Who would wan’t to kidnap Tanzanian Billionaire Mohamed Dewji?

Who would want to kidnap Mohammed Dewji? Saturday October 13 2018 Tanzanian tycoon Mohammed Dewji runs multibillion-dollar business established by his father. PHOTO | AFP By CHRISTOPHER KIDANKA More by this Author Tanzanian security organs are working round the clock to solve the puzzle surrounding the dramatic abduction of billionaire Mohammed Dewji in Dar es […]

Les richesses du Congo, Benedection ou Maladection!? (Congo-autrement)

- Les richesses de la République Démocratique du Congo : une bénédiction ou une malédiction ? image: http://www.congo-autrement.com/medias/images/13227174-1405152276177420-4270310193947803571-n-11.jpg   La convoitise des richesses de la RDC et ses conséquences sur la protection de l’environnement national   image: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/local/cache-vignettes/L890xH701/congo_zaireGF-b4029-76c54.png     0). INTRODUCTION GENERALE 0.1) ETAT DE LA QUESTION Il y a longtemps que les richesses […]