Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Archives

East Africa’s Food Basket: Balancing Import Substitution and Regionalism

by CEO ReporterThought LeadershipJuly 10, 2020July 10, 2020

By Christopher Burke, WMC Africa Government support for the promotion of agriculture in the 2020/21 budget with the scrapping of VAT on agricultural equipment and processed milk are welcome steps…

Monthly export earnings to Rwanda nosedive by 94%; reach USD800,000

by Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryJuly 12, 2019July 12, 2019

Monthly Ugandan export earnings from Rwanda have dropped by 94% since the start of a political-turned-trade feud between the 2 sisterly nations in February 2019. Statistics from Uganda Bureau of…