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Delivering a promising profit curve: Uchumi receiver-manager Jonathan Ciano says, ‘A year ago, nobody important wanted anything to do with us. Now we are receiving inquiries every day. It is humbling.’
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  Investors woo Uchumi in dramatic reversal of supermarket’s fortunes
Dozens of local and foreign suitors are lining up to buy a stake in Uchumi Supermarkets, barely two years after the listed chain closed its doors and asked for statutory management.
MPs to review railways and ports contracts
UK review of Watchman deal a ‘cover up’


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Tata offer on Natron plant rubbished
Conservationists say that the offer by Indian industrial giant Tata Chemicals to move a proposed soda-ash plant 35 kilometres away from Lake Natron in northern Tanzania will still devastate flamingo numbers on the lake.
BUSINESS AGENDA
A Green Revolution for Africa — Can it be made in Austria?
A grand initiative to give food production and agricultural development in Africa a shot in the arm got underway last week with experts drawn from all over the world making...
Agra launches $47m credit line for Kenyan farmer
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) have launched a Ksh3 billion ($47.6 million) credit line for...
Prices of maize, beans to continue rising across EA
Wholesale prices, especially for maize, are expected to rise still more around East Africa as the national stock position gets tighter in Kenya and Tanzania, according to...
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Fear and trembling on the home trail
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) have launched a Ksh3 billion ($47.6 million) credit line for...

Nile Bridge is falling down – just because the colonialists left...
The Nile Bridge near Owen Falls in the eastern Uganda town of Jinja is so badly cracked, it’s about to collapse.
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