the Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MEM) has published an Electricity Supply Industry Reform Strategy and Roadmap for 2014 to 2025 (the Roadmap). The Roadmap seeks to respond to private sector concerns with its key focal points being TANESCO operational and financial transformation, strengthening of the governance and performance of the sector and attracting private investment In its recent…

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Equity Bank becomes the first financial services institution in Kenya that is also licensed to provide telecommunication services. NAIROBI, Kenya, October 7, 2014/ — Today, Taisys Technologies Co., Ltd. (http://www.taisys.com) announced that Kenya’s leading bank Equity Bank will be issuing a ultra-thin mobile banking smart SIM with patented technology from Taisys. Equity Bank customers can now enjoy funds transfer,…

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Dar es Salaam, 1 October 2014. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the pan-African Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) have further strengthened their collaboration on agriculture research and capacity building in Tanzania by signing an agreement on banana research. This agreement, which spells out how the two institutions will work together to tackle…

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