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Job Opening Posting Title: Director, Regional Integration and Trade Division Job Code Title: CHIEF OF SERVICE, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Department/Office: ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Duty Station: ADDIS ABABA Posting Period: 28 July 2016 – 25 September 2016 Job Opening Number: 64582 Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp

Barely eight weeks to the October 01 deadline for the East African Community (EAC) to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), one would expect the regional bloc to be handling the issue with a degree of urgency.  Apart from Kenya, the rest of the member …

Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Every morning, Mama Biliki prepares small bags of popcorn outside her ramshackle house in Ajegunle, one of Lagos’ poorest neighbourhoods, to sell by the roadside for 50 naira each. On a good day, she reckons she can earn about 5,000 naira ($16, 15 euros) hawking …

  Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC) will provide more opportunities for small scale enterprises thru Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSME) to achieve the 2040 middle income status. During the handover ceremony at Farmers’ House, Minister MTIC, Amelia Kyambadde communicated to Ministry officials that the ministry under the MSME …

NBS: Uganda and China discuss and agree best ways to improve trade relations and improve business climate for traders for the benefit of both nations. Share on: WhatsApp

Government, analysts search for elusive answers over declining exports, rising imports About 700 trucks enter Uganda daily from Mombasa Port in Kenya, loaded with all types of goods. However, most of them go back empty for lack of exports, a situation that makes transport costs rather prohibitive for Ugandan importers. …

Regional trade facilitation organisation to pump between Shs 2.66 – Shs 2.83 trillion in region On May 31, executives at Trademark East Africa, a not-for- profit organization that supports the East African Community integration process in trade policy reforms and trade-related infrastructure, gathered in Kampala. The meeting was intended to …

President Yoweri Museveni has told German investors at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce that today’s Uganda offers them a ready market with high profitability ratios un-paralleled anywhere in the world. He described Uganda as a land of abundant opportunities but which is still lacking in capital and the spectrum of …

President Yoweri Museveni is in Berlin where he delivered a key-note address at the German-African Business Day Forum. “I am here to show you that Uganda is the right place to go as far as investments are concerned and that, it is the right time to go,” he told the …

NBS: There are no definite projects run by the Turkish government in Uganda. This was caused by the delay in signing work pacts between the two countries with reasons that without signing agreements, it is difficult to move on with cooperation, business and support. Share on: WhatsApp