East Africa

  • Dec 12, 2013
  • 2 min read

East Africa integration faces sovereignty hurdles

A trans-border payments system was launched yesterday, allowing 'real time' bank transfers...

East Africa
  • Nov 20, 2013
  • 7 min read

Prospects for East Africa and the Great Lakes in 2014

The issues currently receiving media and diplomatic attention -- the indictment of Kenya's...

East Africa
  • Nov 19, 2013
  • 7 min read

Global markets will shape East Africa gas prices

The discovery of huge gas reserves in Mozambique and Tanzania has opened up the potential for a...

East Africa
  • Nov 11, 2013
  • 7 min read

East Africa divisions do not signal bloc breakup

Over the past five months a series of presidential summits have taken place between Kenya, Uganda...

East Africa
  • Nov 8, 2013
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Tanzania will keep its place in East Africa bloc

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kitwete said yesterday that his country would not leave the EAC.

East Africa
  • Oct 28, 2013
  • 2 min read

East Africa integration push might favour South Sudan

Kenyan, Ugandan and Rwandan presidents meet today to push forward plans for the crude pipeline...

East Africa
  • Sep 16, 2013
  • 6 min read

East Africa's drug transit trade is growing

Drug trafficking in East Africa is not new. However, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

East Africa
  • Sep 5, 2013
  • 7 min read

Stability still has political salience in East Africa

Kenya's parliament was to convene today to debate exiting the International Criminal Court (ICC),...

East Africa