EAC Partner States adopt Regional Electronic Cargo and Drivers Tracking System
The system allows the users to share information across borders in a transparent manner, and the truck drivers will need to upload the application...
COMESA Member States wants socioeconomic study on COVID-19 impact
Member state officials indicated that some of the measures are not coordinated at a regional level thus seriously limiting regional trade which involves essential...
COMESA Agency scraps 12 Anti-Competition Trade Agreements
Other sectors in which the Commission reviewed were distribution agreements affecting alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and the fast-moving consumer goods. PHOTO| FILE.More than...
COMESA hands over the Chair of Tripartite Task Force
The Tripartite brings together three RECs, including the East African Community into a cooperative framework on the implementation of the Tripartite Free Trade Area...
World Bank, IMF mobilize partners in the fight against COVID-19 in Africa
The World Bank Group and the IMF suggested a range of financing options and policy tools as part of the pandemic response, many of which African...
Youth Investment Bank opens in Gitega
Burudi's president Pierre Nkurunziza together with Evelyn Butoyi the minister for youth during the official launching of the bank in Gitega on April 15th....
IMF Enhances Debt Relief Trust to Enable Support for Eligible Low-Income Countries
The COVID-19 outbreak and the associated global economic turmoil creates a critical need to support the Fund’s membership. PHOTO| FILEIn direct response to the...
Is Burundi government’s move to suspend forex bureaus the right call?
Burundi’s small scale traders were left in dilemma after the Central Bank’s move to stifle the forex bureaus country wide that exchange foreign currency...
Mixed reactions over ‘curfew’ on bars in Bujumbura
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza backed the decision urging Burundians “to take drinks at home and share with their family members”. PHOTO| FILE.Curfew on...
German injects $128 million in East Africa’s education and Health programmes
The East African Community Secretary General Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko and the German’s Charge d’Affaires Jorg Herrera after signing the agreement on December 4th...


