A woman carrying baobab fruits. (Supplied to How we made it in Africa by B’Ayoba) We highlight eight promising opportunities in Africa’s agribusiness sector, from tapping into Zimbabwe’s substantial baobab tree resources to meet the growing global demand …

Cyclone Hidaya which is characterised by heavy rains and strong winds will hit the Kenyan coast. [File, Standard] Anxiety gripped the Coast on Saturday as Cyclone Hidaya raced towards Kenyan shores from the Indian Ocean after causing storms, flooding and …

China is one of the biggest lenders to African countries, accounting for 12% (KSh 94 trillion) of the continent's external debt Due to the extent of Chinese lending, the World Bank noted that seven African nations were either in debt distress or at …

Zanzibar, Tanzania-based seafood firm Zanzibar Seaweed Company (ZASCO) recently signed an agreement with a financial lender to back the expansion of seaweed-processing infrastructure in the region. The agreement will see NMB Bank extend loans to small- …

Aqsen Innovations has partnered with CENSIS – Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and IoT technologies – to advance the development of its sensor system, Aquasense. This can be adapted to test for a range of variables in water, such as …

Chinese agro-industrial companies have been urged to make Uganda a source of their materials. Mr Odrek Rwabwogo, the chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID), said the government of Uganda is …

Introduction Carbapenems constitute a class of antibiotics of last resort against severe infections caused by multidrug- (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) bacteria.1–3 Unfortunately, carbapenem-resistant bacteria (CRB) are increasingly being …

Tanzania and Kenya resolved their longstanding dispute over poultry exports following a two-day consultative meeting at the EAC headquarters in Arusha Rabson Wanjala of Kenya and Benezeth Lutege Malinda of Tanzania's Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries …

KWS warden and fishermen carrying two-day-old turtles at Nyali beach, Mombasa county. [Marion Kithi, Standard] As stewards of the Western Indian Ocean, Kenya stands at the cusp of a very promising marine and coastal-based economy that forms the backbone of …

Tanzania and Kenya have resolved a longstanding trade spat over the export of poultry and poultry products between the two countries, said the East African Community (EAC). According to the East African, the statement by the EAC said the dispute was …