Browsing: Sub-Saharan Africa

That year, in 2015, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania settled for a three-year plan to phase out the importation of used clothes, a major exporter been the United States. To realise the intended ban, taxes were increased on second-hand clothes were increased effectively deterring their importation. The plan was to completely ban the import of second-hand clothes as of 2019.

This ambitious vision was never realized as the Trump administration issued an ultimatum for EAC to rescind the ban on second-hand clothes by 23 February 2018 or, as the DW writer Isaac Mugabi puts it ‘face the consequences.’

The Sub-Saharan Africa economic growth is forecast to resume to 2.8 percent in 2021 and further rise to 3.3 percent…

Remittance flows to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region increased by 2.3 per cent to record about $5.6…

Tanzania has earned a record $3 billion from gold sales as price for the precious metal soars in the…

In Sub Saharan Africa, growth is expected to rebound by 2.3 per cent in 2021 and 3.1 percent in 2022…

As the World shakes off the effects of Covid-19, the global energy sector has a long way to go to…

VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) in Sub-Saharan Africa presents challenges to doing business that are distinct and unique to each market in the…

Across the continent to West Africa where we find one of Africa’s largest economies, Nigeria. Here we find another railway…

Even as share values for US futures on crude oil prices hit rock bottom, spotting a worrisome negative figure (-4.0…

Members of Parliament in Tanzania are urging the government to consider giving tax breaks to businesses in a bid to…