The East African - Business Agenda

Containers at the Kilindini port’s off-loading berth. The container terminal was designed to handle 250,000 units annually but is currently handling almost 500,000 units. Picture: Laban Walloga

	KPA blames bad roads, rail for congestion The Kenya Ports Authority is once gain pointing an accusing finger at the Rift Valley Railways (RVR), poor roads and improving economies in the region for the chronic cargo congestion at the port of Mombasa.
	AfDB gives Bujagali hydropower project a $29.7m grant
	Importers oppose RVR's new freight rates

EXECUTIVE FORUM

	Kenya, Ghana top list of 'doing business' reformers
Kenya and Ghana are ranked among the top 10 businessreformers worldwide, according to a report done by the World Bank

Tanzania waives import duty on cement to ease supply deficit
Cement producers in the East Africa Community region will, in the next six months, benefit from a temporary 15 per cent import duty tax reduction in Tanzania.

Is Beijing seeking to be Africa's 'colonial power?'
The African Union will co-ordinate and guide Africa’s regional economic communities and member states in coming

Stocks
	Kenyan punters now invade the Ugandan stock market
The bullish run seen on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) over the past few months has been attributed to an influx of foreign investors especially from Kenya.

Production
	Dar exports up, as construction boom drives Zanzibar economy
Tanzania exported goods and services worth $14.9 million in August, compared with exports valued $5.7 million recorded in June, ending months of low performance.