On 19 June, the Kenyan government concluded and signed the EU-Kenya Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) following a series of unsuccessful attempts to persuade the rest of the East African Community (EAC) to sign onto an EPA between the EU and the EAC as a whole. This comes two years after Kenya decided to pursue the EU-EAC EPA on its own and made a request at the EAC Heads of State Summit for an exemption to implem ...
Kitabu hiki kinatoa uchambuzi wa siasa-uchumi kuhusu MIUMBI na athari zake kwa nchi ya dunia ya tatu kama Tanzania. Waandishi wametumia lugha rahisi ambayo msomaji yeyote anaweza kuielewa hata kama ni mara ya kwanza kusikia kuhusu MIUMBI. Ni jambo la kutia faraja kuwa kitabu hiki kimeandikwa kwa lugha yetu wenyewe. Msomaji atapata mifano dhahiri kuhusu mambo yaliyojiri kihistoria hadi kufikia nchi kuanza kuwekeana mi ...
A new benchmark for success: making trade and investment contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 The European Parliament`s Committee on International Trade (INTA) will prepare its first draft position for the European Parliament on the future trade relations between the EU and Africa. The report of the European Parliament, which together with the results of the EU-Africa Summit ...
African states are signatory to more than 900 investment treaties. Majority of these have been signed with non-African states. The intention for signing investment treaties is vested within the solo interest to protect the rights of foreign investors in the host state, albeit at the cost of human rights and the host states’ development interests. For more than “20 years, ‘human rights’ and ‘business’ were very rarely ...
Civil society statement on Public-Private Partnerships developed during a side event held at the sidelines of the Tanzania – Business Forum to inform the Public Private Partnerships Forum Africa Inaugural Conference in Kampala, Uganda from 16th-18th September 2019. Civil Society warn EAC governments about the lack of democratic accountability in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) arguing that the new ...
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Southern and Eastern Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) and HakiMadini are organizing a civil society parallel session on the sidelines of the 1st Uganda – Tanzania Business Forum. The theme of the parallel session is prepared under the theme “Are Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) a healthy option for East Africa?”. The session is scheduled to take place on ...
The Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI); Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI)-Uganda and Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights (CEFROHT) have filed a Case against the Governments of Rwanda and Uganda in the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) over the continued arbitrary border closure. Click here to download press ...
Issued by SEATNI-Uganda | March 2017 SEATINI-Uganda has developed a Statement entitled The EAC-EU EPA: Tanzania is raising pertinent issues urging EAC Member States to consider issues raised by Tanzania against the signing of the East African Community – European Union Economic Partnership Agreements in view of the forthcoming 18th Summit of the EAC Heads of State.