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Uganda-Tanzania crude pipeline project gains steam as Eacop opens new coating plant

Nairobi, March 26 -- The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) has inaugurated a coating plant, a facility that will prepare and insulate all the line pipes to be laid on the 1,443 km-long route fro... Read More


Uganda ready to sign Africa open skies plan

Nairobi, March 3 -- Uganda is keen to sign the Single Africa Air Transport Market protocol, ending years of fence-sitting. Authorities in Kampala indicated this week that the Uganda will join the ope... Read More


Why Somalia wants another foreign force after ATMIS is done

Nairobi, Feb. 24 -- Ten months before the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) winds up its 17-year assignment in the Horn of Africa nation, it has emerged that Mogadishu has requested ... Read More


EACJ to rule on lower chamber hearing oil pipeline project case

Nairobi, Feb. 21 -- The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) appellate division on Tuesday agreed to determine if the Court's lower chamber has jurisdiction to hear the case challenging construction o... Read More


Dar port managers court Ugandan businesses

Nairobi, Feb. 11 -- Cargo figures in the Dar es Salaam port to most of its hinterland markets has grown in recent years, but Tanzanian ports chiefs are uneasy about the share of transit traffic destin... Read More


Dar port managers woo Ugandan businesses

Nairobi, Feb. 11 -- Cargo figures in the Dar es Salaam port to most of its hinterland markets has grown in recent years, but Tanzanian ports chiefs are uneasy about the share of transit traffic destin... Read More


Why Uganda picked UAE firm to refuel its oil refinery project

Nairobi, Jan. 28 -- In picking a United Arab Emirates (UAE) firm as the lead developer and investor for its 60,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery, Uganda has yet again opted for an outlier with the fina... Read More


Comesa watchdog hits broadcaster, CAF with $0.6m fine

Nairobi, Jan. 26 -- Competitions watchdog of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) on Thursday slapped a fine of $300,000 each on Qatari sports broadcasting giant beIN Media and t... Read More


Eacop partners race against time to close $3bn financing deal with China lenders

Nairobi, Jan. 15 -- Developers of the pipeline that will transport crude from oilfields in Western Uganda to the Tanzania's port of Tanga for export are jittery as they negotiate the final push to com... Read More


Kenya visa waiver 'a boon' for air travel, but will it drive down fares? ticket prices?

Nairobi, Jan. 1 -- Kenya's visa waiver for all foreigners has been hailed as a bold move that other countries should embrace to spur liberalisation of the African airspace, with the ripple effect of i... Read More