Your gateway to East Africa's trade and investment.

Focus on East Africa provides a platform for the broadest exposure to trade & Investment between the East African Community (EAC) and Europe.

The EAC is a dynamic regional economic bloc comprising 5 countries - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi with a population of over 130 million people and a combined gross domestic product of US$73 billion.  The EAC region has plentiful natural resources, a youthful demographic structure and fast-growing economies. Furthermore, the EAC stands out in Sub-Saharan Africa as having the strongest momentum for integration between the countries, making it increasingly easy and profitable for multinational companies to operate in.

With Africa’s fastest growing economies, the EAC offers overseas investors diverse business opportunities across a broad range of world-class industry sectors. Avenues for investment range from traditional industries – such as tourism, agribusiness and mining, where EAC's competitive advantages are well established – to fast-evolving technology and service sectors.

The EAC offers a wealth of opportunity for businesses to succeed. Businesses can expect a stable and efficient regulatory environment, a highly skilled and multi-lingual workforce and a culture of innovation. The EAC’s unparalleled economic record, emerging industry capabilities and unique cultural and geographic advantages in one of the world's fastest growing region all form part of the EAC's impressive reputation as a trade & investment destination.

Focus on East Africa supplies investors, researchers, media and policy makers etc with news and information on East Africa’s investment environment and sheds light on issues that inform investment decisions. The firm works across the publishing, internet, research, public relation, public affairs, market visits and events platforms to deliver fully integrated communications solutions for its clients.