Dar expels 12 Kenyan traders over border fee
Dr Richard Sezibera. Photo/FILE
By BENJAMIN MUINDI bmuindi@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Wednesday, April 4 2012 at 22:30
Twelve Kenyan traders have been expelled from Tanzania for failing to pay a $200 (Sh16,600) fee already been waived by the...
Political union project dead in the water, EAC focus on Somalia, Sudans
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By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO
Posted Saturday, September 3 2011 at 19:23
Regional observers say the priority that the Somalia crisis has assumed in the agenda of East African Community leaders, and the rise in the number...
The Al Jazeera Media Network in Doha, Qatar will be establishing Al Jazeera Kiswahili, a new, regional news and current affairs media network in East Africa. The network will produce regional news and current affairs content for the television and online environments. The television channel...
Nasikia wako katika harakati ya kuwapiga marufuku WaTz pia.
Eti wengi wao ni omba omba
Wololololo :-)
Daily Nation:*- Africa*|Row looms as Juba locks out Somalis
The article is too long, but you can read from the link below. I had actually argued here before that Kenyans are just as good in written Swahili but no one believed me. It turns out I was right. Sasa jameni mwajivunia sana eti mnaongea Kiswahili "fasaha" lakini kuandika lugha sanifu hamuwezi...
Tanzania
As a UN Report lists Tanzania as the second largest marijuana producer in Africa after South Africa there is fear that the drug is becoming the mainstay of the economy of some remote villages north-west of Arusha .
This month and August is the main harvest season of marijuana in...
NAIROBI, Feb 17 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- Software giant Microsoft has launched its latest Windows 7 operating system in Kiswahili in a move intended to allow more than 150 million Swahili speakers in Kenya and other parts of Africa to access a broader range of its software programmes.
The Windows...
When Kenya's Minister of Education Sam Ongeri recently lamented the poor performance of primary school pupils in national examinations of Kiswahili, and ordered an investigation into the matter, it was reminiscent of an oft-quoted saying in East Africa: that Kiswahili was born in Zanzibar, grew...
The East African Community could double in size in three years as more countries express interest in joining the bloc.
According to Harvard University professor Calestous Juma, both South Sudan and Ethiopia are eyeing the region.
EAC Secretary General Juma Mwapachu has on several occasions...
Oct 28th 2010 | BUMBULI
Makamba (right) networks on the mount
THE parliamentary campaign in Bumbuli, a constituency of 167,000 souls in the mountainous Lushoto district of Tanzania, is a mixture of ancient and modern. January Makamba, the candidate of the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi...
Oct 28th 2010 | NANYUKI
Kenya and east Africa: Can Kenya make its new deal work? | The Economist
SINCE the bloody ructions that shattered Kenya in the wake of a disputed election at the end of 2007, the country has recovered its breath, endorsed a new political system, and is now poised...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace has reportedly been having a secret affair with central bank governor, Gideon Gono. South African Sunday Times newspaper reports that Grace Mugabe- who is 41 years younger than Zimbabwe's 86-year-old president, has allegedly spent the last five...
Renaissance Capital, the Moscow-based investment bank, will on Tuesday launch a Sh200 billion real estate project it says should become a visible symbol of Kenya's leadership in urban renewal and reaffirm Nairobi's position as East Africa's economic hub.
The mega project, to be officially...
FOR once an investment fad seems justified: the 21st century is shaping up to be that of the emerging markets, just as the 20th was Americas century and the 19th Britains. But that leaves open the question of which countries, exactly, will emerge. Will Asia and Latin America mark the limits of...
A Ugandan newspaper published a story featuring a list of the nation's "top" gays and lesbians with their photos and addresses, angering activists who say the already marginalized group risks facing further attacks.
Earlier this month, Rolling Stone newspaper -- not affiliated with the U.S...
Population: Over 4 million
Nickname: Bongo, meaning brain or wit what you need to survive in the city
Origins: Founded in 1862, when Sultan Seyyid Majid of Zanzibar chose it as a site for his summer palace
Revived in 1887, when the Germans established it as one of their main commercial...
Kenya could resume manufacturing vehicles if a plan by the East African Community succeeds.
Numerical Machining Complex (NMC), a State company that made the Nyayo Pioneer Car before it collapsed, has drawn the regions interest to Kenyas transport sector.
A draft EAC industrialisation...
Tanzania and Burundi lag behind their fellow East African Community member states in meeting the ambitious millennium development goals.
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