AFMASS Food Expo Kenya edition is the food, beverage and milling industry’s largest conference and exhibition attended by key decision makers from Eastern Africa Africa to trade, network and learn the latest processing, packaging and […]
UGANDA — The Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) plans to use up to 7.3million litres of alcohol in the stores of their members to produce affordable sanitizers in efforts to fight spread of coronavirus. In turn, […]
KENYA – Kenyan Poultry farmers have urged the government to impose taxes on products from Uganda to create a level playing field and protect the industry from dumping. In December last year, Kenya protested levies […]
UGANDA – Uganda earned US$46.73million in February 2020 Coffee exports. This was an increase of 43.37% in value from the same month the previous year. Comparing quantity of coffee exported by type in the same […]
UGANDA – The Netherlands Embassy of Uganda has launched an accelerator programme dubbed ‘Business Lab Uganda’ targeting Ugandan agribusiness fruit farmers, aimed to link them to export market in the Netherlands and Europe. The programme […]
UGANDA – Tanzania has partly opened borders to Ugandan sugar exports following more than a year of being locked, on accusation that the latter is importing and repacking the sugar for export. According to a […]
EAST AFRICA – FAO has received a US$10 million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the fight against the Desert Locust upsurge in East Africa as the UN agency expanded its […]
EAST AFRICA – The European Union has injected £2m (US$2.2m) into the European Union Development Fund’s E€OFISH programme initiated in the Lake Victoria region to boost sustainable fisheries for the blue economy. The overall objective […]
UGANDA – The government of Uganda has issued a protest note to Kenya expressing concern over the “illegal seizure of Ugandan made milk and milk products under the Lato brand.” The Kenya government, acting through […]
