Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
A special economic zone is only as special as its customs line. Without a clearly defined customs area, the tax holidays and duty deferrals that draw investors to an SEZ have no enforceable boundary, and the zone becomes a policy promise rather than an operating...
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
A special economic zone is only as special as its customs line. Without a clearly defined customs area, the tax holidays and duty deferrals that draw investors to an SEZ have no enforceable boundary, and the zone becomes a policy promise rather than an operating...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
Champion at the Wheel: How Carl Tundo Took Charge of the Safari Rally Project
Kenya has never lacked for racing talent; what it has lacked is a national rally franchise run with the discipline of a business. For years the World Rally Championship's return to the country generated headlines without a clear operational owner. That gap is what the...
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
This Month’s Issue
The Corridor Dividend
How East Africa spent a decade laying the rails, the ports, the cables and the payment rails – and why the corridor pays the firm that worked out where to stand, not the one that cut the ribbon.
- 01 The Connection Doctrine: The Corridor Dividend
- 02 Congo Prices Its Own Debt – What a Sovereign Debut Really Costs
- 03 Mogadishu: What a National Payment Rail Really Reprices
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
Kenya’s Commissioner of Customs designated SEZ customs areas under the EAC Customs Management Act, drawing the boundary that makes zone incentives enforceable.
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
On 5 March 2026 Minister Ramogapi added a tenant-purchase option and dropped plot-size and eligibility limits to Botswana’s pool-house scheme; 277 sold, 248 in
Champion at the Wheel: How Carl Tundo Took Charge of the Safari Rally Project
Kenya named WRC champion Carl Tundo CEO of the Safari Rally Project from 5 June 2026, betting cockpit credibility can run a global sporting property.
Economics
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
A special economic zone is only as special as its customs line. Without a clearly defined customs area, the tax holidays and duty deferrals that draw investors to an SEZ have no enforceable boundary, and the zone becomes a policy promise rather than an operating...
Six Pacts: How the Ruto-Ramaphosa Summit Deepened Kenya–South Africa Trade
Africa's two largest economies south of the Sahara trade more in rhetoric about continental integration than in goods with each other. Kenya and South Africa sit at opposite ends of the AfCFTA's promise and, until recently, well short of its potential. A June 2026...
Finance Bill 2026: How Kenya Aims to Raise KSh 3.5 Trillion from a Digital Tax Net
Every government wants a wider tax base; few want to be seen widening it. Kenya's Finance Bill 2026 makes the ambition explicit. It sets out to raise KSh 3.533 trillion, and it does so not by inventing a single headline tax but by reaching into the corners of the...
Money
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
A special economic zone is only as special as its customs line. Without a clearly defined customs area, the tax holidays and duty deferrals that draw investors to an SEZ have no enforceable boundary, and the zone becomes a policy promise rather than an operating...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
Champion at the Wheel: How Carl Tundo Took Charge of the Safari Rally Project
Kenya has never lacked for racing talent; what it has lacked is a national rally franchise run with the discipline of a business. For years the World Rally Championship's return to the country generated headlines without a clear operational owner. That gap is what the...
Lifestyle
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
Mid-Week Holiday: How Kenya Gazetted Eid al-Adha for 27 May
A calendar that runs Monday to Friday rarely makes room for a faith that follows the moon. Kenya's working week is built around the Gregorian grid, yet its public holidays must answer to lunar reckoning, and this year the arithmetic landed in the middle of the week....
Malaria’s Playbook: What Tanzania Learned From China’s 1-3-7 Method
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The usual currency of health aid is goods - drugs, nets, diagnostic kits shipped from a donor to a recipient. The more durable, and rarer, export is a method. In...
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
Kenya’s Commissioner of Customs designated SEZ customs areas under the EAC Customs Management Act, drawing the boundary that makes zone incentives enforceable.
Six Pacts: How the Ruto-Ramaphosa Summit Deepened Kenya–South Africa Trade
Kenya–South Africa trade rose to US$650m as Presidents Ruto and Ramaphosa signed six pacts on trade facilitation, standards, TVET and women’s empowerment.
Finance Bill 2026: How Kenya Aims to Raise KSh 3.5 Trillion from a Digital Tax Net
Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 targets KSh 3.533 trillion by taxing digital services, standard-rating EVs, shortening return deadlines and widening withholding.
Price Pressure: How Fuel and Food Pushed Kenyan Inflation to 6.7 Percent
Kenya’s headline inflation rose to 6.7% in May 2026 from 5.6%, driven by transport and food, with non-core at 16% against a contained 3.2% core rate.
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
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Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.
Press Centres and Production Links: China’s Quieter Media Play in Africa
The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.
Uganda by the Numbers: One Country Inside a 10,000-Village Promise
Continental pledges are hard to test. Uganda’s share of the satellite-TV rollout – 900 villages, 18,000 households – is small enough to count and large enough to judge the wider claim.