Implementation of Reliable Water Service to 16 villages in Tanzania
CHRONIC water shortage in 16 villages of Chamwino District will soon be a thing of the past after the government teaming up with Innovation Africa, a nonprofit organisation, carries out implementation of a number of water projects in the area.
ICT sector to attract more foreign investment- East Africa
Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) has plans to integrate the Information Communication Technology (ICT)sector so that it can attract more Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) into the region.
The director general of Communication Authority of Kenya (CA), Mr. Francis Wangusi, told media in Nairobi that "the six partner states that is including Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda have small fragmented markets that have limited appeal to foreign investors and this six partner states have already developed draft policies which will be domesticated by each country."
Nisan Group of Africa committed to development of Africa
Nissan Group of Africa Director of Sales and Operations, Jim Dando stated that "We are committed to Africa, decentralising our operations and appointing automotive business leaders of this character to head up these regions".
Nissan Group of Africa recently moved the continent into three different regions: Central, East and West Africa, in accordance with the global automotive
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.
