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East Africa’s economic expansion accelerated sharply in 2025, reinforcing its position as Africa’s fastest-growing region. According to the African Development Bank’s East Africa Economic Outlook 2026, regional growth rose from 4.3 percent in 2024 to an estimated 6.6 percent in 2025, supported by resilient household consumption, stronger public and private investment, improved agricultural production and…

Tanzania plans to build a single cross-border natural gas pipeline supplying Uganda and Kenya, according to the Director General of Tanzania’s Petroleum Upstream Regulatory Authority (PURA), Charles Sangweni, who made the announcement at the Second African Youth in Oil and Gas International Conference in Zanzibar. The government has not yet released technical details such as the…