Laws & Regulations

The appointment of CIA Director Michael Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State who shows no interest or engagement in sub-Saharan Africa. Acturely Africa has been poorly served by the Trump administration and that is likely to continue.

The new India ban nowadays restrict imports from Tanzania,This will make lots of Tanzania Pigeon pea farmers and traders not be able to repay loans following a drastic fall in the price of the crop.

In Africa, the EAC is one of the biggest importers of second hand clothes from US, UK and China. In 2013, the EAC total percentage of global used clothes trade amounted to 8%, with 3 % for Kenya, 1.9% for Uganda, 1.9 % for Tanzania, 0.6 % t for Rwanda and 0.2 % for Burundi.

Farmers’ needs and at least four improved crops hang in the balance as the future of the nation’s biosafety bill remains unresolved.

A Kenyan court has suspended a government shutdown of three private television channels that was prompted by their coverage of opposition leader Raila Odinga’s self-proclaimed inauguration on Tuesday, one of the channels reported on its twitter feed.

The Ministry of Agriculture & Natural Resources (MoANR) has finalised a draft directive that will gear up the monopoly of the fertiliser import process. The new directive will also let the Ministry procure fertilisers directly from manufacturers for three years at a fixed price.

Leading voice in the agriculture sector, Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) has stressed the need for the urgent passage of the seed and fertilizer bills by the National Assembly.

IT is the writer’s view that this definition is wide enough to cover all hand-held phones, ipads, ipods, ATM machines, and any other electronic device(s) that store, process and retrieve information.

To strengthen the human resource capacity of OHADA’s Institutions, the Council of Ministers appointed, according to merit, five new Judges into the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration, CCJA, in order to replace the judges whose term of office expired.