All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS) is to harmonise its quality standards with those of other East African Community (EAC) partner sates by mid 2009.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
With a kind of hide and seek that is beginning to be the hallmark of the common market talks, there is a likelihood that the dream of reaping from a large economic market of over 90 million people, may fail.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The East African Community (EAC) Common Market negotiators have failed to agree on unresolved issues from last months' third round talks in Bujumbura, Burundi.
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(Click To Enlarge) Russia to U.S.: Let's Team up, to Fight Pirates -- The Danger Room The U.S. and Russia don't agree on much, these days. But nothing brings countries together like a common enemy. And they've found one, in East Africa's increasingly-sophisticated, increasingly-bold pirates. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says his country "will work with the U.S. and European Union to fight...
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Fighting erupted Sunday between a group of pirates holding Somali ship and soldiers loyal to Somalia's semiautonomous state of Puntland between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, according to eyewitnesses.
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Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship for the last 16 days have threatened to blow up the MV Faina in the next 36 hours if ransom is not paid.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thursday was Independence Day. And, as always, it was time to take stock of where the country stands 46 years on. President Museveni spoke of the lost years under Obote and Amin. And then the recovery under his leadership starting in 1986. That was self-serving but not entirely incorrect.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Unlike in the past, communities affected by the latest cholera outbreak in Kampala are now responding fast to public health guidelines aimed at containing the infection.
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World football governing body Fifa have appointed Egyptian referee Essam Abd El Fatah to officiate the crucial 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifier between Uganda Cranes and Benin.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are things that cannot be changed, regardless of whether you are Barack Obama or the beggar at the T-junction between Entebbe and Kampala road.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A highly addictive, intoxicating drug is being openly sold in Ugandan shops and supermarkets.
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The United Nations' humanitarian arm has warned that food insecurity is worsening in Ethiopia, with over six million people now in need of emergency aid to stay alive.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Kenya is now among a select group of countries - including Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Uganda - to be rated as emerging markets by the IMF.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
For the first time in a long while, the Government has directed its attention to the long-suffering provincial administrators.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
It is official: the Government receives an average of two new applications daily from people seeking to register churches.
