Kenya and Uganda have agreed to jointly extend the oil pipeline from Eldoret to Uganda in a deal that will see Kampala import refined petroleum products directly through Nairobi. Nairobi says the extension will facilitate trade relations between the two nations. The two countries also signed a tripartite agreement paving the way for the Uganda […]

Uganda Airlines plans to deploy a wet-leased A320 on services to Nairobi, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa routes on which it has seen significant growth but whose operation was getting increasingly challenged by capacity shortfalls. After several procedural hitches that saw its arrival postponed several times over the past four months, the aircraft, leased from Johannesburg-based […]

On Friday, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan joined SGR Cluster Joint Ministerial Committee and committed to engage development partners in seeking funding for the railway to ease movement of goods on the Northern Corridor. During the meeting in Mombasa, the ministers in charge of infrastructure acknowledged the fundraising challenges the project has […]