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East African Currency Still Viable?

Last year at the launch of the East African Community Common Market, we wrote on the impending currency the trading bloc hoped to introduce in 2012. However with the debt crisis afflicting the Eurozone at present, how plausible would a single … Continue reading

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East African Community sets up Common Market and Integrates.

On November 20, the East African Community (EAC), which comprises of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, announced that in July 2010, pending ratification by all member states, they will introduce a Common Market for goods, services and people. Following … Continue reading

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The Economist, The World in 2010, Africa Focus.

As an ardent reader of The Economist, a must have publication every year is the excellent series, “The World In”, and having just received my 2010 edition, I’m eager to dig into it. Before pointing out what 2010 has in … Continue reading

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