One restrictive link in a trade corridor can shape an entire route.
By
Sylvia Kathoni
Nation Media Group
Kenya’s road transport is ranked the third most ‘open’ among the eight partner States of the East African Community (EAC), trailing Rwanda and Burundi, a joint scorecard by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO) showed.
The Services Trade Restrictions Index (STRI) by the World Bank and WTO measures regulatory barriers in road freight services and their hindrance to market access.
A shipment from Rwanda to the Central African Republic took four months by road, underscoring the barriers to Africa’s digital…
Uganda is expected to develop its own sections of the SGR connecting to both the Kenya and Tanzania lines but has given priority…
Kenya and Rwanda have opened talks to deepen tourism ties spearheaded by private sector players and the country’s top tourism…
Health officials defend the restrictions, but traders say the measures have disrupted the flow of goods and income.
Rwanda has for decades relied on oil marketers that import fuel via the port of Dar es Salaam, with Kenya handling not more than…
Riots triggered by rising fuel prices have disrupted business activities in the border town of Busia.
