East Africa

More spending to secure the post-pandemic recovery was the message of the finance ministers from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as they announced their annual budgets on 11 June. The t...

Optimism appears to be the name of the game as treasury ministers from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda followed the recent practice of coordinating their 2020/21 budgets ahead of the ne...

The four major players in the East African Community completed the annual ritual of unveiling their national spending plans on 13 June. 'Transforming lives through industrialisatio...

Critics of the European Union's foreign service arm, the European External Action Service, are saying that its desire to move beyond the status of a mere giver of funds to that of ...

The six-nation East African Community has taken a proactive stance on regional trade in recent years, waging a battle against the United States by threatening to impose tariffs on ...

The interminable delay in ratifying the EU-East African Community (EAC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) has become an increasing source of frustration in Brussels and Nairobi....

The April agreement between Uganda and Tanzania to run a crude oil export pipeline through Tanzania rather than Kenya dramatically shifted the geometry of East African oil. Yet the...

Kenya is urging its East African Community counterparts to return to the table in a bid to rescue the EAC's proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union. T...

Industrial policy is in and Western aid is out; the state is back and the market is pushed back; economic nationalism is up, as is scepticism about globalisation. That, broadly, is...

The shape of East Africa's future as an oil producer became clearer on 23 April with the announcement that Uganda's crude oil pipeline would go through Tanzania. The move alters th...