26 nations to create free trade area next month

Tripartite Free Trade Area needs security
East African Business Week
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) was signed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia and Mohamed Bilal, the Vice President of Tanzania on June 10. This was ...
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Uganda’s exports to the 14 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) free trade zone (FTA) will not attract import taxes beginning July, Mr David Wakikona, the minister of State for Trade, has said.

South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday lent his support to a pan-Africa free-trade area, which he said could be worth as much as $2.6 trillion.

The Tripartite Sectoral Committee of Ministers meeting in Bujumbura, Burundi from 24 – 25 October 2014, agreed that the Tripartite Summit of Heads of State and Government to be held in Egypt in mid-December 2014 would launch the Tripartite Free Trade Area taking into account the fact that the majority of the Tripartite Member/Partner States have made ambitious tariff offers and were agreed on Rules of Origin to be applied in the interim whilst further work continues on product specific Rules...

The so-called BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - agree to create a $100bn development bank and emergency fund.

Africa's largest free-trade zone is to be created, covering 26 countries and including more than 600 million people when a deal is signed in Egypt.

The government has been urged to  include  the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in its vaccination programme to decrease the rate of cervix cancer in the country.

Govt to create institutional apparatus to curb illegal drug trade, corruption
IPPmedia
The government is posed with immediate effect to make institutional reforms in the Police Force as it intensifies the war against illegal drug trade and corruption in the country. Government leaders for several times had continued waging the ...
State to deal with police station attackersDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)

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President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday urged rich countries to stop imposing tariffs on goods from the developing nations and open up the world trade platform to trigger growth.