“EAST” : 1047 articles

• Tanzania’s Precision Air resumes flights to Uganda

  Tanzania's low-cost airline, Precision Air, has Friday re-launched flights to Entebbe International Airport in Uganda four years after abandoning the…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• UK pledges family planning support for Mozambique, others

  Mozambique is one of the recipients of annual support for family planning services the United Kingdom pledges to provide around…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• FIFA lifts suspension of Sudan football association

  FIFA on Thursday lifted the suspension that was imposed on the national football association of Sudan, following alleged government interference…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Ethiopian coffee growers to export products directly

  The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange Authority (ECX) on Thursday announced it has started a new approach whereby coffee growers can directly…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Tanzania fines mobile operators over SIM card registration

  The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has fined six mobile operators in the country with heavy fines for breaching communications…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Tanzanians need to pull up socks to compete in EAC

  Tanzanians lack the right skills to compete in the East African regional integration, a top government official said on Friday.In…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Uganda, Tanzania sign transport infrastructure cooperation deal

  Uganda and Tanzania have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Joint Ministerial Co-operation for Improvement of Ports, Lake…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Uganda Police Force to send new peacekeepers to Somalia

  Uganda Formed Police unit six has been flagged off to Somalia for peacekeeping mission, reports said on Friday.The advanced team…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Kenya: Freed Principal Secretary from Shabaab abductors, others grab headlines

  How security forces freed senior government official from Al-Shabaab abductors, President and opposition leader headache over run-off and Kenyan Premier…

  Published on 14.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Japan freezes $100M in grants and loans to Mozambique amid debt talks

  Japan says it has frozen about $100 million worth of grants and loans to Mozambique, in the wake of the…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Mozambique police arrest four state officials for corruption

  Four senior state officials in Mozambique have been arrested for stealing $33,000 from state coffers, APA can report on Thursday.State-controlled…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Kenya government denies opposition claims it plans to rig polls

  The ruling Jubilee Administration on Thursday denied claims by the opposition that it plans to rig the August 8 elections…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• South Sudan: Kiir sacks striking judges, justices

  South Sudan president Salva Kiir has on Thursday issued a decree, dismissing some of the judges who have been on…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Michael Raynor named as next US Ambassador to Ethiopia

  The White House announced the nomination of Michael Arthur Raynor of Maryland, a career diplomat, to serve as the next…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Sudan’s Al-Bashir suspends negotiation with U.S government

  Sudan's president Omer Al-Bashir on Wednesday has issued a decree suspending works of a committee formed to negotiate with the…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Ethiopia to launch satellite in two years-Official

  Ethiopia is building a satellite to launch into orbit after two years, an official said on Thursday.Dr Engineer Getahun Mekurai,…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Kenya: Ten rigging risks in poll register, others grab headlines

  Ten rigging risks in poll register, Rowdy crows disrupts both President and opposition leader rallies, and regions that hold key…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• S/Sudan: ICRC evacuates staff, patients amid insecurity in Maiwut

  International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday says it has evacuated its workers and dozens of patients from…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• English football club in friendly match with Kenya’s Gor Mahia

  English Premier League side Everton will face off with Kenya's Premier League Champions, Gor Mahia in a friendly international match…

  Published on 13.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Khartoum rues Washington delay to lift sanctions

  Sudan's Foreign minister, Abraheam Ghandour on Wednesday expressed displeasure over a US executive order delaying the lifting of sanctions on…

  Published on 12.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Ethiopia earns $866m from coffee export

  Ethiopia has earned $866 million from coffee export during the just concluded fiscal year that ended last Saturday, APA learns…

  Published on 12.07.2017 by APA News APA

• China pledges $18M to build new Mozambican armed forces barracks

  Visiting Chinese Defence Minister Chang WanQuan has promised that China will continue to support training programmes for the Mozambique defence…

  Published on 12.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Uganda gets $40m World Bank credit to fight GBV

  The World Bank has approved a $40 million credit to Uganda for strengthening social risk management and gender-based violence (GBV)…

  Published on 12.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Uganda’s Museveni halts approval of loans worth $1bn

  Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has written to parliament rejecting 11 loans, amounting to $1 billion that are not targeting infrastructural…

  Published on 12.07.2017 by APA News APA

• South Sudan resumes river transport

  The Minister of Information in Fashoda State, South Sudan has said river transport routes have re-opened to allow traders move…

  Published on 11.07.2017 by APA News APA

• UK announces £90m family planning initiative for Ethiopia

  The UK, through its Department for International Development on Tuesday announced its new family planning by choice programme, which will…

  Published on 11.07.2017 by APA News APA

• AMISOM hands over university campus to Somalia

  The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has handed back to the government a university campus its troops have been…

  Published on 11.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Cameroonian banking group acquires DRC bank

  The Cameroonian banking group, Afriland First Bank have acquired First International Bank (FIBANK), reputed to be the biggest bank in…

  Published on 11.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Tanzania scraps ‘incompetent’ national sports council

  The Tanzanian Sport ministry on Tuesday announced it was dissolving the national sports over claims it has done little to…

  Published on 11.07.2017 by APA News APA

• Mozambique’s June inflation jumps to 19.72 percent

  Mozambique's national Institute of Statistics (INE) has said the country's consumer inflation rose to 19.72 percent in June up from…

  Published on 11.07.2017 by APA News APA