Trending
- Under President Lula, Brazil rekindles trade ties with Africa
- A huge task awaits Kamau Thugge at the Central Bank of Kenya
- Forget GMOs, human action is fueling world hunger
- East African border towns a pain point for informal women traders
- BoT implements tough measures to curb inflation in Tanzania
- Kenyan manufacturers raise concerns on the Finance Bill 2023
- Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Africa
- In Tanzania, smallholder farmers reaping big from Mercantile Exchange
Browsing: UK
Kenya is the major exporter and importer of the East African Community (EAC) accounting for an estimated 46 per cent of exports and 41 per cent of imports in the region…
The British Chamber of Commerce Kenya (BCCK) has unveiled its inaugural Integrity Index showcasing local companies and how they fair on the integrity test. It features a selection of companies based in Kenya, that have a track record in working with integrity with organizations in Kenya and British Chamber of Commerce Kenya (BCCK) members.
These companies which cut across various sectors including horticulture, ICT, real estate, recycling and water and showcases a new trend in Kenya where Integrated has been prioritized. In the past, Kenyan private sector has been labeled as the hub for corrupt under dealings and this list shines a new light Into Kenyan private sector.
The Index is part of the Business Integrity Initiative (BII) pilot programme, which is run by BCCK in partnership with the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the UK Department for International Trade (DIT) and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) …
The UK will invest up to £20 million in the new ‘African Union Covid19 Response Fund’ to tackle coronavirus and save lives.
This makes the UK the largest national donor to the fund, which was announced by Cyril Ramaphosa, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) and President of the Republic of South Africa last month. It will support African leaders and technical experts to slow the spread of coronavirus and save lives in Africa and worldwide.
The fund will tackle the pandemic by recruiting African health experts and deploying them where they are needed most, strengthening global tracking of the pandemic, combatting potentially harmful misinformation, providing specialist coronavirus training for health workers and making information about the virus more accessible to the public.
Announcing the funding on May 20th, International Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said:
…“As the UK faces its biggest peacetime challenge in tackling coronavirus, it’s never been more
African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina has urged UK investors to ride the wave of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
“Africa is on the cusp of unmatched economic transformation, and the UK must engage in a “partnership of change,” Mr Adesina has said.
Mr Adesina was speaking during a keynote address at a UK Parliamentary Symposium said that the Africa of the 21st century is very different. “The Africa of the 21st century is new and more confident,” he said.
The Symposium was co-organized by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Africa with the Royal African Society, Oxford Brookes University, and the Trade Justice Network under the theme UK-Africa Trade and Brexit.
The Bank’s chief argued that Africa and the UK should be significant trading partners. “The reality, however, is that UK’s trade with Africa is trending downwards. From a $49 billion peak in 2012,trade decreased to …
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are also included in the plan to deliver affordable housing to Kenyans…