EAST AFRICA

Kenya Is Spending KSh 65 Billion to Electrify Nairobi's Commuter Rail. The Project Is Not About Trains. It Is About Preventing the City From Congesting Itself Into Economic Irrelevance.

The Kenya Urban Mobility Improvement Project is a KSh 65 billion initiative financed through a Kenya...

Jun 4 13 min

EAST AFRICA

East Africa’s Next Growth Story Depends on Turning Eight National Visions Into One Market

Tanzania is the logistics-industrial anchor. Kenya is the services and capital market hub. Uganda is...

Jun 1 17 min

EAST AFRICA

Uganda's Kiira Motors Has Secured a UGX 1 Trillion Electric Bus Export Contract. East Africa May Have Its First Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer.

Kiira Motors Corporation, Uganda's state electric vehicle manufacturer founded from a Makerere Unive...

May 30 14 min

EAST AFRICA

How Digital Customs Integration Along the Northern Corridor Is Becoming East Africa’s Most Important Trade Competitiveness Reform

The discussions taking place in Kigali under the Northern Corridor Integration Projects Single Custo...

May 28 8 min

EAST AFRICA

East Africa Talks Integration. Its Supermarket Shelves Tell a Different Story.

Intra-regional trade accounts for roughly 15% of total EAC trade according to EAC trade data, meanin...

May 25 18 min

EAST AFRICA

For the First Time in History, Tanzania's CRDB and NMB Bank Rank Above Kenya's Equity and KCB. East Africa's Corporate Landscape Is Shifting.

African Business magazine's Top East African Companies 2026 survey, sourced from the publication's b...

May 17 11 min

EAST AFRICA

Ugandan Supermarkets Are Exposing East Africa’s Regional Trade Imbalance

This is not an argument against imports. Every growing economy imports. The strategic question is di...

May 14 12 min

EAST AFRICA

East Africa’s Investment Guide: Why Tanzania Edges Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Uganda as the Region’s Best Risk-Adjusted Bet

East Africa is becoming a serious capital-allocation contest. Kenya has financial depth, Rwanda has ...

May 14 12 min

EAST AFRICA

Kenya and Tanzania Set a 31 May Deadline to Eliminate All Non-Tariff Barriers. East Africa Has Heard This Before. The Difference This Time Is Presidential Skin in the Game

The Kenya-Tanzania Business summit of 4 and 5 May 2026 produced four measurable commitments: a 31 Ma...

May 5 14 min

EAST AFRICA

Ruto Arrives in Tanzania With a Refinery Proposal, a Pipeline Discussion, and a Parliamentary Address That No Kenyan President Has Made Before.

Kenya's President Ruto is in Tanzania for a two-day visit that culminates in a historic address to T...

May 4 14 min

EAST AFRICA

Tanzania Needs to Go From USD 95 Billion to USD 1 Trillion in 25 Years. The Arithmetic Is Straightforward, Everything Else Is Not.

On July 19, 2025, President Samia Suluhu Hassan launched Tanzania's Development Vision 2050 in Dodom...

Apr 10 15 min

EAST AFRICA

Tanzania Is Building a USD 1 Trillion Economy. The CAG Has Just Documented the Distance Between That Ambition and the Institutional Reality. Both Can Be True Simultaneously.

Two things are true at the same time. Capital is entering Tanzania at scale. The system absorbing th...

Apr 10 5 min