Marais 37 na wageni wengine 10,000 kuingia Nairobi

[game over]

Raisi wangu Magufuli mbona simuoni hapo akijichanganya na wakubwa wenzie? Au bado yuko kwenye Jubilei ya Mkapa?

Yupo waziri mkuu,

 

[game over]

Japan is going to release 32 billion dollars for development projects in Africa but our southern neighbour's president cannot find time to attend. Kwani aliambiwa asivuke border na mganga?

So ulimtaka magufuli aje huko acompete for that money from japan??

Anyway, Dont wory, PM majaliwa is there,
Besides, kwa tz haina haja ya kufosi mambo, wenyewe huja maana kizuri hujiuza chenyewe.
A reason why currently tz is on top when it comes to FDI,

 

[Kafrican]

 

[Kafrican]

 

[NairobiWalker]

Recognition and bootlicking are never identical. What are all those presidents doing in Kenya? What is the purpose of this whole thing? Its ridiculous.

Development is the purpose. Why else would presidents of other Nations come into Kenya Uwuru na Umoja?

 

[Kafrican]

Development is the purpose. Why else would presidents of other Nations come into Kenya Uwuru na Umoja?

Hosting the conference alone without signing a single deal is already a plus....
Wenzao wa Uganda wananafungua macho





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President Yoweri Museveni attended the just-ended Tokyo International Conference for Africa’s Development (TICAD), in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. I would have wished to give him this letter.
It’s for a good reason, one would say, but working in Nairobi has become nearly impossible the last couple of months. Every few days, roads are closed because a Big Chief or a global conference is in town. And with that, an already nightmarish traffic gridlock gets worse.
So why is this resurgence happening in global activity in Nairobi? It’s a long story, but partly to understand it, we need to jump to the central African edge of the East African Community, to Rwanda.
Rwanda has also become a big conference scene, and though small, the things it has done with its relatively new national airline Rwandair, and the massive policy and infrastructure investment it has made to become an attractive international conference venue, it was threatening to eat all of Kenya’s lunch.
With its new Convention Centre, and the big remake of an already well-functioning Kigali for the July African Union meeting, Rwanda with that stroke has become easily the most competitive conference venue between here and Cape Town.
The difference is that Rwanda has had to work hard for it; Nairobi is a more “natural” city to do these things, all it had to do is make it easy. The result is obvious. When I first came to Nairobi some years ago, in the space of a month I would have been to all the top hotels in the city. Today, there are so many new international hotels, I have not been to three quarters of them.
In Uganda, we are still functioning with an old-fashioned mid-20th Century Conference Centre, which is not possible to rig up with all the new clever conference tech. And we are missing out in the conference feast. We should style up, because for Nairobi and Kigali, the conference business is something bigger.
So what is happening? First, as immigration and terrorism become ever bigger global issues, they are impacting how the world meets and discusses. It is important to understand this, because if you do you will figure that it will also lead to a new kind of regional balkanisation.
While, to the annoyance of radical pan-Africanists China, India, Japan, and the US will continue to hold “African conferences” to which all our leaders gather to be told how to develop the continent, increasingly these kinds of events will take place in Africa.
The conference business is therefore not a passing cloud. There is a long-term shift that makes it good investment, because it will be around for a while.
Secondly, while the Internet has reorganised the way the world works and trades in, especially, “digital” goods, these goods still have to be physically transported. That book you ordered from Amazon still has to be sent to your physical address in Kampala.
And that growing trade with China, well, someone still has to carry back the flasks, fake hair, and bad furniture. There is a kind of trade route winding around the continent, and it is being defined by airlines like Emirates, Qatar, Turkish Airlines, in addition to the older ones like British Airways, although the latter hasn’t spread much.
The real trick, though, is how to get people and goods around Africa once they land on the continent. For that, the national airlines of Africa do the donkey work.
Right now the continent has four workhorses – Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, and Rwandair.
If you are coming to a conference in Africa, or flying goods around, the chances that you will use one of these airlines is probably 75 per cent. It’s no accident that Cape Town/Johannesburg, Ethiopia, Nairobi, and Kigali are also the leading conference hubs on the continent.
Conference economics creates the infrastructure – better airport facilities, hotels, etc., - that is good for travel and business. But most critically, as intra-Africa trade grows and more and more countries make it easier for Africans to come in and out, the winners are going to be the countries that make themselves part of the pipeline for that trade.
Africa’s next frontier: A Nairobi letter to President Museveni