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22nd November 2016 London, UK

Joanne Kihagi

Communications Officer, Kenya

Linking ports to power the engine room of East Africa’s trade

Trademark East Africa’s support for the modernization of ports in Mombasa and Dar-es-Salaam, and its one-stop border posts, are transforming trade and driving integration across East Africa. The UK in Kenya and Tanzania plays an important role in supporting them, through UK aid. The time it takes to move goods from Mombasa to Kampala has […]

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11th January 2016 Geneva, Switzerland

by Julian Braithwaite

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

The Geneva Agenda for 2016

The Geneva institutions are facing big questions at the start of 2016. Will the humanitarian system adapt to the challenges of protracted conflicts and unsustainable mass migration?  Will the World Trade Organization (WTO) rediscover its role at the heart of the global economy?  Can we respond effectively to the growing threat of pandemics and the […]

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14th December 2015 Geneva, Switzerland

by Julian Braithwaite

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

Developing Countries Need a Successful WTO Most of All

Occasionally you come across a fact that changes how you think. One such moment for me was when I discovered how the world had managed to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger between 1990 and 2015.  It turns out that we met it five years early, meaning that nearly 1 […]

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22nd August 2011 Nairobi, Kenya

by Matt Baugh

Ambassador to Somalia

Somalia: Guest Blog by James Hooley – Letter from Mogadishu

My name is James Hooley and I’m currently part of the British Office for Somalia team in Nairobi.  My boss, Matt Baugh, has very kindly lent me his blog so I can tell you a little bit more about our trip to Mogadishu on Wednesday with Andrew Mitchell, the UK Secretary of State for International […]

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