Africa’s Power & Energy Exhibition is announced as market continues to attract investment
Africa has experienced massive internal growth in major areas within the last 20 years which have contributed greatly to investors’ assets. One area which is particularly high in demand and continuously predicting huge returns is the energy market.
It has already made an impact by creating greater well-being to the people of Africa whilst boosting profits for shareholders involved. Due to this massive interest in the region’s power sector which includes the UN’s 2014 ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ programme, making Africa as one of the main areas of focus, EXPOGROUP is organizing the 4th Power & Energy 2018 Exhibition, from the 13th to the 15th of November 2018 in Tanzania at the Diamond Jubilee Expo Center (DJEC) in Dar-es-Salaam and Kenya’s 8th edition from the 25th to the 27th of July, 2019 KICC, Nairobi’s famous international venue
Front Line Health workers in Uganda to get vaccination against Ebola disease
The Ministry of Health has announced that Uganda will be conducting vaccination against the Ebola disease for the front line workers.
As the widespread occurrence of disease continues to claim more lives in neighbouring DRC.
Minister of Health said at a news conference at Uganda media centre that, "The Ministry of Health would like to inform the public and the entire world that it will conduct compassionate use of the Ebola vaccine (rVSV) for health care and front line workers and ring vaccination in Uganda".
UAE & Uganda Signs Agreement to Start Agricultural Free Trade Zone
Uganda will host a 35 member delegation from the United Arab Emirates as part of efforts to actualize plans to establish one of the first agricultural free zone in the world.
The free zone, which is expected to occupy 2,500 hectares will attract investment from companies, especially from UAE in agricultural processing and packaging for export.
Scania Unveils New Trucks
Scania East Africa has launched its new truck generation becoming the second market in Africa to roll out the new truck range.
The new models have been launched in phases across the globe since August 2016 revealing results of ten years of development work, billions of dollars of investments and more than 10 million kilometres of test driving.
“Dar to be a Medical Tourism Hub in EA”, This is envisioned to be a centre of excellence in the region
It has been announced that Dar at Tanzania is about to become a Medical tourism Hub; The hub of high-tech cardiovascular treatment which will include a special wing for children in East Africa.
This will happen through the extension of the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute (JKCI) at Mloganzila.
Uber Sees Opportunity for Minibus Service in Nairobi
Uber Technologies may roll out a new service in Kenya to help user’s book seats on minibuses that ply the streets of the congested capital, if tests on the product in Egypt and Mexico prove successful, a company executive said on Wednesday.
Uber estimates that more than a third of Kenyans in Nairobi use the often crowded minibuses, known as matatus, as their main form of transport around the city, Uber’s East Africa General Manager Loic Amado told Reuters.
Kenya has set aside $10 million to help local start-ups in the mobile telephone software and hardware segments to grow
Joe Mucheru, the ICT minister, told the annual meeting of the ICT industry in the capital Nairobi that he was concerned by the country’s imports of 50 million telephone handsets every two years, challenging local firms to start making them locally.
Why can’t we leverage on the skills available locally to manufacture these handsets that are suitable for our markets?” he asked.
Kenya has 45.5 million mobile phone subscribers. A range of imported mobile devices from companies like Apple and Huawei are more preferred by the Kenya subscribers.
