Avocado exports can reap big gains for Kenyan farmers - study
Kenyan smallholders can boost their incomes by nearly 39 percent by exporting avocados to the European market, a Washington-based research institute said in a study issued on Thursd…...
Read More Uganda puts in motion plans to block fake phones
Uganda has moved to switch off counterfeit phones after installing a central equipment identity registry.The move by Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) follows increased influx o…...
Read More Road construction projects in Ghana to receive a US$60m shot in the arm
Road construction projects in Ghana are to receive a shot in the arm when work starts on the rehabilitation of roads in the Kumasi municipalities early in the new year. Recently th…...
Read More Qatar’s Sh131bn Rwanda airport set to rival JKIA
Qatar Airways will take a 60 percent stake in a new Sh131 billion airport to be built in Rwanda and which is set to rival Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) as the …...
Read More Ghana's Acacia Build outdoors new 150 Diamond In City apartments project
Acacia Build Ltd, the Accra based high-market and top-level luxury properties developer has launched its second flagship project in the heart of Ghana, The Diamond In City Apartment…...
Read More Africa's ambitious infrastructure: Tanzania secures $272m for new airport
Daniel Mumbere with AGENCIES, Dec 21 2019 - 11:26Several African countries, and the African Union itself have prioritised infrastructure development as a means of integrating the co…...
Read More Algeria: Condor selected to build 50-megawatt solar power plant
By Luchelle Feukeng The Algerian government has chosen Condors offer to build a 50 MW solar power plant, following a call for tenders issued a few months ago for the construction of…...
Read More Tax relief for Kenyan businesses
Dec. 17 2019 -- Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Kenya may soon pay less tax after President Uhuru Kenyatta directed the Kenya Revenue Authority and the National Treas…...
Read More Upper Nile will experience more water scarcity due to hotter, drier periods
An increase in hotter, drier years in the coming decades due to climate change may worsen water scarcity issues in the Upper Nile Basin, according to new research.These impacts are …...
Read More Harare’s historic Meikles Hotel set for modern makeover
By Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg NOVEMBER 30 2019 -- It is a piece of Zimbabwe’s colonial past that has fallen on hard times — but Harare’s venerable Meikles Hotel could soon …...
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