The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now a full East African community member after it deposited ratification instruments on the EAC Treaty’s accession. The DRC’s vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala deposited the instruments to the EAC Secretary General, Peter Mathuki, at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. https://twitter.com/jumuiya/status/1546464914012880896?s=20&t=vpjBrYcDkAodqoYbwfXwyQ https://twitter.com/jumuiya/status/1546500135911395329?s=20&t=vpjBrYcDkAodqoYbwfXwyQ The formal presentation of the instrument of ratification marked the final phase of admission of the country as the EAC’s seventh member. DRC now has full rights and privileges like any EAC partner state to participate in all the bloc’s programs and activities…
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Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia Plc on Thursday announced that it will start commercial services in Ethiopia in August 2022. The telco had planned to launch in April 2022. However, on Thursday, it outlined a phased launch of its network and services in August 2022 in Ethiopia’s city of Dire Dawa before expanding to 24 cities across the country in April 2023. https://twitter.com/SafaricomET/status/1544958748107612160?s=20&t=EMtQLqQVMuoHFWY2oIR11A “Safaricom Ethiopia is looking forward to switching on our network and services, starting with Dire Dawa from August 2022 and 24 other cities in phases across the country in the coming months,” Matthew Harrison-Harvey, chief external affairs and regulatory…
Flutterwave Inc., a Nigerian fintech company, said, “Claims of financial improprieties involving the company in Kenya are entirely false.” This was in response to its accounts being frozen by a Kenyan court with more than $40 million. Kenya’s Assets Recovery Agency sought and was granted a High Court order to freeze 29 bank accounts with Guaranty Trust Bank, 17 with Equity Bank, and six with Ecobank, all belonging to Kenyan-registered Flutterwave Payment Technology Ltd. “These orders shall subsist for 90 days as provided in section 84 of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act,” Judge Esther Maina said in…
Centum Real Estate Limited, a subsidiary of Centum Investment Company, forecast weaker earnings for the fiscal year 2022. The company expects its unaudited financial results for the year ended March 31st, 2022, to be at least 25 per cent lower than reported in the comparative year in 2021. “The decline in performance is primarily due to lower revaluation gains on investment property in the year ended 2022 compared to those posted in the year ended 2021,” it said in an emailed statement. Accordingly, IFRS requires companies that hold investment property to conduct independent annual revaluations of their investment property and…