Uganda has passed the controversial 1% Mobile Money Tax. The excise duty amendment bill 2018 that seeks to place a 1% tax on every transaction made by phone users on Mobile money platforms has been passed by Ugandan Parliament. Government says the amendment in the tax regime will help mobilize …

Kenya is calling for further efforts to control expenditure at the African Union (AU), even as it struggles to pay up its membership fees to the continental body. Ahead of the African Union Summit due on Sunday in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma told …

Sustainable Development Goals Present New Opportunities for Businesses By Ghada Hammouda At a recent meeting of the newly established UN Global Compact Network Egypt where I participated as one of the group’s founding members, one of the most important topics discussed was the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals SDG’s and their …

Crackdown on suspected dirty sugar in Kenya has continued with police impounding a number of trucks ferrying the sweetener in Rongo, Migori County. The standards Act under section 9, criminalizes the manufacturing of sugar under the conditions that the contraband sugar was being produced. The businessmen didn’t comply with the …

At least  shs22 billion is expected to be spent on improving roads in Arusha through phase phase two of Tanzania strategic cities project (TSCP). Phase two of the project will also involve the improvement of the drainage systems, construction of solid waste dam in Muriet and containers for the same. …

East Africa Entrepreneurs Association (EAEA) is a regional business confederation composed of Entrepreneurs involved in the running of business enterprises in East Africa. We are committed to ensure that our members, who span from Micro, Small, Medium and large corporations, take advantage of business opportunities locally, regionally and internationally. Our …

East Africa Entrepreneurs Association wishes to inform its members that Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) is organizing a grand Exhibition and Forum in Tangerang, Indonesia, October 24-28, 2018. TEI is an international B2B-focused tradeshow that is designed to boost export product growth and export market expansion. The 33rd TEI in 2018 …

Uganda will benefit from shs26b agro processing and value addition fund that has been launched by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). The launch is part of shs100b facility that seeks to improve agro processing and value addition in northern Uganda and West Nile. Dr. Dmitry Pozahidaev, from UNCDF, …

Germany is well known for its trade fairs and is hosting many of the biggest fairs in the world like; The Hannover Industrial Fair (Hannover Messe), The CeBit, an It-fair, The ITB a tourism fair in Berlin, The Green Week, an agricultural fair in Berlin ReTEC a used machinery trade …

The Kenyan government will lift a ban it imposed on poultry from Uganda, after it has been put in place 25 months ago, due to an outbreak of avian influenza in the country. The move, which follows an assessment that ascertained that the neighboring country was free of avian influenza …