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Africa risks missing out on AI revolution benefits

Tanzania, March 7 -- African economies risk being left behind in the artificial intelligence (AI) shift that is changing the way companies do business, with the continent's low capacity for virtual st... Read More


Somalia gains full EAC membership

Uganda, March 5 -- Somali has gained full membership of the East African Community (EAC) after depositing her instrument of ratification of the treaty of accession with the bloc's Secretary-General on... Read More


Somalia now a full member of the East African Community

Tanzania, March 4 -- Somali has gained full membership of the East African Community (EAC) after depositing her instrument of ratification of the treaty of accession with the bloc's Secretary-General ... Read More


Uganda ready to sign Africa open skies plan

Tanzania, 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 Uganda will join the open s... Read More


US cautions Tanzania on LNG project delays

Tanzania, March 3 -- The United States this week warned Tanzania of a likely exodus of investors in its long-anticipated, multimillion-dollar liquified natural gas project if it continues to be bogged... Read More


East Africans paying most for slowest connection globally

Uganda, March 2 -- At the opening of the African preparatory meeting for the second World Technology Standardisation Assembly in Nairobi on February 5, Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Information, Commu... Read More


Chad opposition leader killed in foiled state attack

Uganda, Feb. 29 -- Several people, including a top opposition leader, were on Wednesday killed following an overnight attack on Chad's internal security agency in the capital N'Djamena. The governmen... Read More


Presidents Ruto, Museveni meet over Raila Odinga's African Union job

Tanzania, Feb. 27 -- Former US president Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that in politics, nothing happens by accident and that if it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. A surprise visit by... Read More


EA cash transfers 'most expensive globally'

Uganda, Feb. 26 -- East Africans are still struggling to find cheap options to send money from one country to another within the region, making it one of the greatest barriers to trade and slowing the... Read More


EA eyes Tanzania project to plug power gap

Uganda, Feb. 26 -- East Africa's electricity supply is set for a boost once the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (JNHPP) goes online. At the 16th Meeting of the Sectoral Council of Ministers on Ener... Read More