Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, has commenced with its twice-weekly freighter service to Bogota, Colombia as of August 29, 2018. The cargo service will depart from Zaragoza (Spain) and will fly to Bogota with a stopover in Miami, using the B777- Freighter. Tewolde GebreMariam, Group […]
Symbion Power has named Clarke Energy as the preferred bidder for two important power plants in Rwanda, which will generate power from dissolved biogas from deep below Lake Kivu. The projects include approximately 25 Jenbacher* gas engines from GE’s Distributed Power business. This announcement coincides with a British Government trade delegation’s visit to Africa. Clarke […]
South African startup Wala has been named as the grand prize winner of the 2018 Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion by The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with support from the Mastercard Foundation. The announcement came during the Open Mic Africa Summit in Nairobi yesterday. […]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose 2.1% in July globally while by 1.9% in Africa. This was the slowest pace of growth seen since May 2016 and well below the five-year average growth rate of 5.1%. Freight […]
Kenya and the United Kingdom are expected to sign a new agreement to repatriate proceeds of corruption and crime when UK Prime Minister Theresa May visits Nairobi. May is expected to touchdown in Nairobi on Thursday, on her three days working visit to Africa that will see her visit Nigeria as well. The signing, will […]
Uganda has defended its move to giveaway land belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture, line agencies and ranches to investors arguing that the decision is meant to help the country to have good and high quality supply of Agricultural inputs. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempija, the Uganda Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries said the land […]
Justice Lawrence Gidudu of the Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court, has this morning declared Abraham Byandala, the former Uganda Minister of Works and Transport innocent of all the corruption and fraud charges that were alleged in the construction of the Mukono-Katosi Nyenga road. Gidudu said that it is not established that Byandala knew that […]
President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned Simba Cement Factory, bringing the number of cement manufacturers in Uganda to four after Tororo Cement Limited, Hima Cement Limited and Kampala Cement Company Limited. The Fifth cement factory, Sinoma Cement Factory Uganda Limited is still under development. Located in Nyakesi Village, Nyakesi Parish, Rubongi sub-county, Tororo District in Eastern […]
Tanzania tour operators are rolling out the red carpet, eyeing a slice of thousands of mountaineers expected to ascend the Seven Summits later this year. The Seven Summits, a well-known mountaineering objective, are the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. Climbing to the summits of all of them is regarded as a mountaineering […]
Australian Mining Firm, Jervois Mining Limited has applied for a prospecting license over the Kabanga nickel-cobalt deposit in the Kagera region of Tanzania. The company believes the sulphide deposit to be the highest quality undeveloped nickel-cobalt deposit in the world, unmatched in scale and grade. As currently delineated, the JORC resource represents 57 million tonnes […]
Rwanda is hosting a Pan African Workshop on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources (ABS), where participants are brought together from across the continent. The three days’ workshop at the Marriot Hotels in Kigali from 28-30 this month, brings together participants representing a wide array of ABS practitioners and experts including policy makers, researchers […]
Central Bank Governors of the East African Community (EAC) have noted that there have been delays in realising targets set out in the East African Monetary Union (EAMU) road map and that there are several challenges that could further impede the full implementation of EAMU protocol. The Governors, who met in Kampala at the 22nd […]
The African Power Platform (APP) has been launched as a new initiative to connect Governmental and Private Stakeholders of the African power sector by creating a network where they can connect with ease. “Power is critical for every single country in Africa and we are here to support all of them equally,” says Jorge Lascas, […]