Leaders of different countries sent messages of congratulations to President Isaias Afwerki in connection with the 17th Anniversary of Independence Day.

President Isaias Afwerki said that the Eritrean people achieved independence through steadfast struggle involving huge sacrifice on the basis of self-reliance, and not relying on external forces. He also underlined that in the post-independence period too, the Eritrean people are

Programs of the 17th Independence Day anniversary celebrations would begin tomorrow, according to the National Holidays Coordinating Committee.

As more and more cyber-cafes bow to the threat of fines from Microsoft over illegal use of their software, the question arises: who is the winner in the crackdown?

The State will not take up additional shares in the Housing Finance rights issue announced yesterday, it has emerged.

No sooner had the new ministers assumed their respective dockets than they read the riot act to land grabbers and errant road contractors.

Anti-Economic Partnership Agreements (Epas) campaigning resurfaced last week, with Oxfam International reiterating its desire to see African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries analyzing Epa impacts before turning their interim Epas with the European Union (EU) into legally binding arrangements.

To be a referee during some of the most heated moments in the country's scrappy telecommunications industry is not an easy feat.

As I travelled through Nairobi, the Rift Valley and Western provinces late last month, the issue that troubled me most was the lack of attention to the road network and other transport facilities. Why has the Kenya government neglected the

The national carrier, Kenya Airways, is set to launch new routes in Africa and increase frequency on some routes this financial year as part of its expansion plans.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture invited tenders from millers and traders to import 17,383 metric tonnes of wheat flour for the year from Egypt and Mauritius. This is far less than the 52,149 metric tonnes recommended in the legal notice

It's quite disheartening looking at the colossal billions of shillings lost in inflated road construction costs in connivance between the Road Agency Formation Unit (Rafu), a government agency, and the contractors.

In a bid to fight procurement corruption in public offices, the government has issued prices for common consumer goods that are clearly at odds with the surging market rates.

In many ways the initial public offering of the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) in 2006 was a watershed in the history of the country's capital markets. It was the first big flotation in a decade in a market thirsting

When President Kibaki assented to the five labour-related laws late last year, workers cheered while most employers whined.

There was a lot of excitement as Warid Telecom launched its network and opened a customer care centre in Lira last Saturday.

Plans to liberalise the social security sector, where private players would freely collect workers savings alongside the National Social Security Fund [NSSF] are in advanced stages.

Availability of good infrastructure- roads, power, water, housing, telephones- and stability, not tax incentives or free land, are the most crucial factors that attract investors.

The failure of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony to meet a team of elders has created a stalemate that raises fresh questions over the viability of talks between his group and the Ugandan government, a regional analyst said.

Anti-Economic Partnership Agreements (Epas) campaigning resurfaced last week, with Oxfam International reiterating its desire to see African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries analyzing Epa impacts before turning their interim Epas with the European Union (EU) into legally binding arrangements.