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Publication: East African

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Africa’s French roadblock

Meanwhile, French banks charge at least 5-6 per cent interest on the loans that they grant to African governments to finance their budget deficits. With the commercial lending rate at a high of 18 per cent, bank credit to the franc zone’s private sector ... [Published East African - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Commercial Lending, Budget Deficit, South Africa

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Museveni

Bunyoro in fresh push for compensation

President Yoweri Museveni addresses delegates at the 2007 CHOGM in Uganda, where it is claimed the UK paid Bunyoro Kingdom $1,062 for abuses during the colonial era. Photo/FILE Nation Media GroupIn SummaryRepresentatives of the western Ugandan kingdom ... [Published East African - May 21 2013]

Entities: Yoweri Museveni, Claimant, United Kingdom, Abuse, Uganda

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

East African Community

East African Community

EAC gives nod to intellectual property law

The East African Community Council of Ministers has finally passed a law on intellectual property protection to safeguard public health.The move comes eight years after the bloc first proposed a harmonised regional framework. It will help member states ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: East African Community, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Rwanda’s ‘young’ banks hit by credit crunch

Rwandans could be facing hard times should banks raise their interest rates in response to shrinking lending to the private sector. According to the official government forecast, credit to the private sector will fall as commercial banks respond to the ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Rwanda, Credit Crisis, Monique NSANZABAGANWA, Kenya Commercial Bank Ltd.

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Scientists work on vaccine to contain African swine fever

A group of scientists is developing a vaccine to curb African swine fever (ASF), a viral disease that is harmless to people but lethal to pigs. The scientists from the Biosciences of Eastern and Central Africa hub at the International$ Livestock Research ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Vaccine, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Kenya Medical Research Institute

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Kigali sets aside money to create jobs for youth, social sectors

Rwanda is to increase spending on the education and health sectors in an effort to boost human development. The government plans to spend Rwf1.576 trillion ($2.5 billion) in the fiscal year 2013/14, up from Rwf1.425 trillion ($2.2 billion) in the 2012/2013 ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Kigali, Rwanda, Allotment, Fiscal Year, Education

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Burundi gets $11.5m for fibre optic cable

PTA Bank has approved a $11.5 million loan to build a national fibre optic network in Burundi, its executives said on Friday. The financing for the Burundi Backbone Systems Company (BBS) was approved by the board members of PTA Bank at a meeting in Nairobi ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Burundi, Fiber optic cable, Fiber Optic

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Overfishing threatens Nile Perch stock in EA

Stocks of fresh water Nile Perch in Lake Victoria are being increasingly depleted by overfishing, illegal fishing and climate change, a new report says. The study by the Tanzanian government has warned that the Nile Perch populations face collapse in ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Nile Perch, Tanzania, Illegal Fishing

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Tanzania bets big on infrastructure

Infrastructure, electricity and information and communications technology are among the major spending items in Tanzania’s Tsh17.7 trillion budget, according to estimates currently being discussed in parliament. The expenditure proposals present a 17 ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Tanzania, Infrastructure, Agriculture, Sokoine University of Agriculture

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Lessons in economic integration for the AU

As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, it is still younger and less integrated than the 56-year-old body that is now the European Union, and, according to politicians and diplomats, has a big advantage over the Europeans as it ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Alec Erwin, European Union, South Africa, Harmonization, African Union

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

The birth of Auma Obama the Afropolitan

She is sister to the most powerful man on earth, but Auma Obama is her own woman. In And Then Life Happens, she chronicles her life and search for an identity, which led her to define herself as an “Afropolitan.” During a reading and discussion session ... [Published East African - May 18 2013]

Entities: Auma (Germany), Barack Obama, University of Heidelberg, Germany

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Succession: Suddenly, Uganda is up for grabs

It is the state of political limbo being created by not knowing the when, rather than the specific manner of how change will happen in Uganda when it does, that is breeding unease.SHARE THIS STORYTweetAs my Kenyan friends would say, “things are getting ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, David Tinyefuza, Succession, Kizza Besigye

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Africa’s French roadblock [Published East African - 7 hours ago]
Bunyoro in fresh push for compensation [Published East African - May 21 2013]
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Rwanda’s ‘young’ banks hit by credit crunch [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Kigali sets aside money to create jobs for yout... [Published East African - May 19 2013]
EAC gives nod to intellectual property law [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Scientists work on vaccine to contain African s... [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Burundi gets $11.5m for fibre optic cable [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Tanzania bets big on infrastructure [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Somali Prime Minister disowns Jubaland ‘preside... [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Lessons in economic integration for the AU [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Overfishing threatens Nile Perch stock in EA [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Sudan, South Sudan peace deal once again in jeo... [Published East African - May 19 2013]
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Succession: Suddenly, Uganda is up for grabs [Published East African - May 19 2013]
Protest isn’t a threat to peace, it’s our right [Published East African - May 19 2013]
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Kasese floods show just how easily laundered [Published East African - May 19 2013]
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Uganda MPs make new laws to outlaw old ones [Published East African - May 19 2013]
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Safaricom to invest more in its Internet, data ... [Published East African - May 18 2013]

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