Event in East Africa

  • Nairobi to host 14th UN conference on trade and development

    KENYA, 2016/07/04 Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is earmarked to host the next United Nations Conference on Trade and Improvment(UNCTAD). The 14th edition of the UNCTAD summit to be held between July 17-22 would take place at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, according to the United Nations data center in Naorobi. President Uhuru Kenyatta is billed to open the week-long conference. Thousands of delegates inclunding Heads of National and Government, ministers, academic and economic experts, representatives of the private sector and members of nongovernmental organizations are expected to attend.
  • Testing, testing: Rwanda’s new national convention and exhibition center

    RWANDA, 2016/06/13 Rwanda's new national convention and exhibition center and the adjoining Radisson Blu Hotel Kigali is ready for a test and will be at the heart of meetings, accommodation, and banquets by mid-July of this year, increasing the country’s MICE infrastructure in a huge way. The new facility is at the very core of Rwanda's drive to capture a larger portion of the MICE business and with new hotels opening in the fall, additional bedrooms in the top market segment will allow for larger conferences, meetings, and conventions in the Rwandan capital.
  • Kigali Forum Set to Accelerate Economic Transformation in Africa

    RWANDA, 2016/03/16 Recent events in the international economy have made it additional urgent than ever before for Africa to transform its economy. This was the sobering message from K.Y. Amoako, the president of the African Center for Economic Transformation at the same time as addressing delegates during the inaugural African Transformation Forum (ATF) which opened today in Kigali. "The sharp fall in commodity prices, or the slowing of the Chinese economy has once again shown how vulnerable most African economies remain to external factors outside their control," Amoako said. "Transformation has the power to change that dynamic."
  • African Leaders, Top American CEOs Explore Opportunities At Business Summit

    ETHIOPIA, 2016/02/09 The US-Africa Business Summit is underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Tuesday as African Heads of National and American business leaders meet with the objective of boosting trade and investment between the region and the US. Underlining that the current volume of trade and investment between the two sides was not enough, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn highlighted the need to increase economic interaction particularly in productive sectors. "Today Africa is rising. Africa's next is very bright. I believe the summit will help you to discover the potential for investment and doing business in Africa," the Premier told US business representatives at the opening of the summit.
  • Burundi remembers late leader Melchior Ndadaye

    BURUNDI, 2015/10/28 Burundian citizens Wednesday commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye, the initial Hutu president democratically elected who was killed three months next the start of his policy. Ceremonies marking the commemoration happened countrywide and in the east African country's capital Bujumbura, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, other senior officials and diplomats accredited to Burundi participated in the event. Ndadaye's commemoration anniversary took place in two separate events inclunding church services in his memory and laying flowers on his tomb or on his memorials throughout the east African country.
  • Somalia Marks 61st Anniversary of Its Blue Flag

    SOMALIA, 2015/10/13 Somalia is marking 61st anniversary since the great blue flag with white star at the center was presented by own and accepted as the official and national flag of the republic of Somalia. Hero Mohammed Awale Liban was the man behind the design of the blue Somali flag with white star in October 1954 before it was hoisted as national flag across the country in 1st July 1960 bringing to an end to brutal colonization of Italian and British in Somali land. The light blue color stands for the sky while the white five point star represents five Somali national scattered across Djibouti, Ogaden region Ethiopia, North Eastern Kenya, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland.
  • 51st Maputo International Fair begins on 31 August

    MAPUTO CITY, 2015/08/29 The 51st Maputo International equitable (Facim) begins this coming Monday 31 August and counts participation by 2,950 exhibitors, 680 from abroad and the rest Mozambican, the chief of the organising body said on Thursday. João Macaringue, president of the Export Promotion Institute (Ipex), told AIM news agency that the event had grown quantitatively and qualitatively. He recalled the appreciation of one exhibitor, a participant since 2011, who said there was a notable difference in the products and how they were showcased.
  • Obama Chides African Leaders Who Cling to Power

    BOTSWANA, 2015/07/29 Barack Obama has chided African leaders who refuse to give up power in his initial speech at the African Union headquarters by a US president. The scolding came in the course of his address on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the 54-member continental bloc. "Africa's democratic evolution is as well at risk at the same time as leaders refuse to step aside at the same time as their terms end," Obama said. "No one should be president for life."
  • Obama: Kenya at 'crossroads' between peril and promise

    UNITED STATES, 2015/07/27 Declaring Kenya at a "crossroads" between promise and peril, President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the country of his father's birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its next. Closing his historic visit with an address to the Kenyan people, Obama traced the arc of the country's evolution from colonialism to independence, inclunding his own family's history here. Today, Obama said, young Kenyans are no longer constrained by the limited options of his grandfather, a cook for the country's former British rulers, or his father, who left to seek an education in America.
  • U.S., Kenya Leaders Co-Host Nairobi Entrepreneur Summit

    UNITED STATES, 2015/07/25 Barack Obama is co-hosting a summit on world entrepreneurship with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi, on the initial working day of the US leader's trip to East Africa. The two presidents spoke back-to-back at the opening of Saturday's conference, aimed at promoting businesses that promise to lift a lot of additional Africans out of poverty and help insulate societies against radicalisation. Obama landed in the Kenyan capital on Friday. Throngs of Kenyans lined the route of his convoy, cheering, whistling and waving as the motorcade passed by and a helicopter circled overhead.