Tazara cross-border services resume

*Alipay users to benefit from Ecobank’s cross-border remittance solution
 The leading pan-African bank, Ecobank, has signed a cross-border remittance agreement with Alipay, the world’s leading payment and lifestyle platform, that aims to bring more inclusive financial services by providing a fast, safe, affordable and convenient way for workers to transfer money back home.
The partnership will facilitate instant transfers from Rapidtransfer, Ecobank’s remittance solution, to users of Alipay,...

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania: 28 May 2015:In its efforts  to achieve an AIDS-free generation, the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat in collaboration with  the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a five-year project on Cross-Border Health Integrated Partnership (CB-HIPP) designed to extend integrated health services in strategic border areas and other transport corridor sites. The ceremonial launch took place yesterday at the EAC...

 NEWLY LAUNCHED EAC-USAID HEALTH PROJECT TO IMPROVE HEALTH SERVICES  ALONG CROSS BORDER SITES
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania: 28 May 2015: ​In its efforts  to achieve an AIDS-free generation, the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat in collaboration with  the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a five-year project on Cross-Border Health Integrated Partnership (CB-HIPP) designed to extend integrated health services in strategic...

>Tanesco yesterday announced that prepaid power service, Luku,  has resumed albeit at a rather tortuous pace.

Mortuary services at Tumbi Referral Hospital in Coast Region have resumed after the government donated a new refrigeration system.

Dozens of people from the Mokolo district of Cameroon are kidnapped by suspected militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram, officials say.

Chadema presidential candidate Edward Lowassa yesterday vowed to boost cross-border businesses between Tanzania and neighbouring countries to uplift citizens’ livelihoods.

Bharti Airtel was yesterday expected to announce the launch of cross-border mobile money transfers for its customers in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda on the sidelines of the East African Business Summit in Kigali.

Times of Zambia
TAZARA no longer crosses common border
East African Business Week
MWANZA, Tanzania - Tanzania-Zambia Railways Authority (TAZARA) management has announced that trains in either country will no longer cross the common border. This is a blow to the concept of seamless transport links and observers say will cause ...
Seven men executedTimes of Zambia

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