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A New Rail Link for East Africa

Jun 5, 2019 | Comments Off on A New Rail Link for East Africa

The 571km-long cross-border railway project dubbed the Isaka-Kigali SGR project linking Rwanda with the Indian Ocean will cost US$2.5billion to complete. In a joint announcement this month, Rwanda’s Minister of…

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The East Africa Single Digital Market (SDM) initiative

Jun 5, 2019 | Comments Off on The East Africa Single Digital Market (SDM) initiative

One of the most successful and active Regional bodies in Africa is the East African Economic Community. It is now involved in the East Africa Single Digital Market (SDM) initiative,…

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African Employment 2019-2035

Jun 5, 2019 | Comments Off on African Employment 2019-2035

According to Forbes, Entrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa’s unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent’s young workforce (those aged 15-35) are unemployed. Another third…

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An African Passport? And African ID System?

Jun 5, 2019 | Comments Off on An African Passport? And African ID System?

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)’s Economic Report on Africa 2019 emphasises, how digitising tax administration and investing in data collection helps to broaden the tax base. However, around 500m…

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EU celebrates a year since its Regulation on Cross-border Portability of Online Content Services was Implemented

Apr 28, 2019 | Comments Off on EU celebrates a year since its Regulation on Cross-border Portability of Online Content Services was Implemented

This regulation aimed to improve the way Europeans access and use their online subscriptions to content when travelling or staying temporarily in another European country. Portability, together with mobile roaming…

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