By Ali Haji Warsame Somalia has numerous universities across the country, from the North to the South and East to the West, where thousands of students, after completing their secondary school leaving certificate in the 12th year, typically enroll each year. These universities offer a range of courses, including Accounting, Marketing, Management, Law, Business Administration,...
LONDON, (Reuters) – Africa needs quicker debt restructurings, more favourable lending terms and some $25 billion for the Africa Development Fund to avoid a lost decade, the head of its development bank said. The continent was suffering from “long fiscal COVID” and the world was not doing enough to help it move past the punishing years of...
Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud visited the Business Bay Square Mall (BBS Mall) in Eastleigh, Nairobi. He was accompanied by a delegation including Kenyan Defence CS Aden Duale, Somalia Ambassador to Kenya Jabril Ibrahim Abdille, and Kamukunji MP Yussuf Hassan. He explored the complex, including the bowling area (Party on Arcade), the mosque, the diverse food...
The East African economy is projected to grow by 5.1 percent this year with Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania leading the region’s economic momentum. A report by audit, tax and consulting firm RSM (Eastern Africa) Consulting Ltd, dubbed “The East African Economic Outlook 2024” and presented during the EAC CEO Roundtable on Tuesday in Nairobi, reveals...
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 nation in the Horn of Africa, assessing the reconfigured regional security dynamics, and rebuilding frayed...
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 develop the Lobito Corridor to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Zambia–Lobito railway, which...
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. The report, launched on Thursday 27 July, projects mid-term economic growth in the region to...
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 Azali Assoumani was elected by his pairs to manage the destiny of the Organisation for...
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), African Development Bank (AfDB) and other bilateral partners. The national borders, including the ocean and...
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 mandate. In a joint communique, the two heads of State said they “appreciated the support...