A year ago, the world was celebrating the signing of agreements to end the brutal war waged in Ethiopia’s Tigray region from late 2020 through 2022. Leaders and analysts were turning their focus to economic and social recovery for the vast … Continued
By Charles Onyango-Obbo The African cross-border infrastructure affair is getting steamy again. The latest, we learnt the other day that the US, European Union, the African Development (AfDB), and the Africa Finance Corporation launched a meaty $600 billion project to … Continued
NAIROBI, Kenya, APO Group- East Africa will register the highest regional economic performance on the continent in 2023 and 2024, with growth figures at over 5%, according to the newly published African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) 2023 East Africa Economic Outlook. … Continued
Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) converged began holding their 36th Ordinary Session today 18th February 2023 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During the official opening ceremony, the President of the Union of Comoros H.E … Continued
By Abdulkadir Hussein Somalia is a long time fragile and low-income country. It is now tussling so hard to build a world-trusted structure of statehood through an aided systems reform revolution supported by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), … Continued
By JULIUS BARIGABA Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and his Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud want the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to lift an arms embargo on the Horn of Africa country to build the capacity to manage its security … Continued
ACCRA, Ghana, The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has signed an $830,000 technical assistance grant agreement for Ethiopia. The funds will help mainstream climate risk management, gender and resilience into economic planning and development in the country’s Ziway-Shallah sub-Basin. The signing … Continued
By VINCENT OWINO East African states will jointly benefit from at least $8.77 billion worth of investments in transport, healthcare, energy, and agriculture among other sectors, from deals made at the 2021 African Investment Forum concluded on Thursday. The three-day … Continued
Published yearly since 2016, the Index measures African countries’ openness to travellers from elsewhere on the continent. This year’s edition found that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic substantially impacted free movement. “In this new era of travel, safety and … Continued
MARTIN MWITA Kenya and Ethiopia have signed an operations manual for the Moyale One Stop Border Post aimed at boosting trade and movement between the two countries. This comes 10 months after the commissioning of the facility, on December 9 … Continued
In 2020, the economies of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia together grew by 0.88%, despite the significant downside risks precipitated by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and the accompanying economic shakeout. Stark divergence in growth profiles, underlying fragilities and significant risks … Continued
By Abdullahi M. Yahie The novel coronavirus COVID-19 has undoubtedly caused havoc in the world in an unprecedented manner. There are, many, however, who may nonchalantly show a feeling of déjà vu. It seems like we’ve been down this road before with … Continued
