New COMESA energy model to ease energy businessÂ
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa – COMESA has developed regional policy frameworks that will assist Member States to improve the quality...
Remittances increase by 115 percent in Burundi
Burundi remittances is now said to have increased by 115 percent according to the country’s Central Bank (BRB), while addressing the press the BRB...
Burundi Central Bank suspends special refinancing framework for growth sectors
The governor of Burundi’s Central Bank (BRB) Dieudonne Murengerantwari has this Friday announced the suspension of the special refinancing framework for growth sectors, days...
Tshisekedi and Kagame at loggerheads
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Felix Antoine Tshisekedi has fired back to President Paul Kagame’s accusations that Kinshasa continued to violate his...
Region to wait longer for a single currency
The East African Community has proposed another deadline for a single currency while expected to miss out on the 2024 deadline that was initially...
EABC urges Burundi government to waive covid-19 testing
The East African Business Council (EABC) Chief Executive Officer John Bosco Kalisa called on the Burundi government to waive COVID-19 testing for fully vaccinated...
Lack of equipment risks GMO importation in Burundi
With Burundi law prohibiting the importation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), experts have warned that lack of proper equipment may see GMOs imported in...
ICT in EAC urged to develop locally relevant content and software
Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) experts in East Africa have been called upon to develop locally relevant content, applications and services so as to...
Kagame calls for political will for EAC integration
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame while addressing the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) in Kigali, called for the East African Community member states to have...
Q and A with Gerarde Minani, mother of 5 battling breast cancer
Ranked second killing cancer in Burundi, October is a breast cancer awareness dedicated month, Gerarde Minani, a 48 years old mother of 5 children...


