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Kenya Gets $155 Million in World Bank Financing for Water
Kenya will receive $155 million in financing from the World Bank for water and irrigation aid, including a project on the Lower Nzoia River west of Nairobi to help address water-supply and food-security concerns. The Washington-based lender said credit from its International Development Association unit backs Kenya's efforts to improve water infrastructure, boost water-storage and ...
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Kenya Moore Opens Up About RHOA Backlash
Kenya Moore, "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" television personality and former Miss USA, is revealing that she has received some backlash after appearing on season five of the ...
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Kenya Fuel Cost Cited As Main Challenge for African Airlines
THE high cost of jet fuel in Africa compared to other regions due to distribution inefficiencies and infrastructure constraints has held back the development of budget airlines and fare reduction, an aviation conference was told on Monday. Delegates attending the African aviation suppliers conference in Nairobi heard that jet fuel prices in some African capitals are double the global average ...
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Kenya Medical Staff At Kenyatta National Hospital Go On Strike
The medical staff at the Kenyatta National Hospital have staged a strike at the hospital premises protesting failure by the KNH management to pay salary increments and allowances that the staff were awarded by the Industrial Court earlier this year. Kenya Union of Domestic Hotels Educational Institutions Hospitals Allied Workers (KUDHEIHA) executive board member Obuya Obengo said that the ...
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Magazines Kenyan architecture at crossroads
Kenya is full of exciting, posh, exquisite and warm architecture for both residential and commercial purposes. But the architecture in most construction works that stand out can all be traced somewhere else -- not ...
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Kenya Lawyer wants Chinedu to appear in court
Nelson Havi is set to appear in court Thursday morning seeking to compel the government to produce the Nigerian in court in compliance with an order issued by Justice Musagha Mbogoli. Havi in an application dated June 3, quoting sections of the constitution and criminal procedures code had applied to have Chinedu produced in court. "Take notice that any party served with the orders and ...
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Kenya Diplomatic passports special number plates for governors
The summit, which brings together the President, Deputy President and all county governors, provides a forum for consultation and cooperation between the national and county governments and meets at least twice a year. Speaking during the meeting, President Uhuru Kenyatta said all functions that are supposed to be performed by county governments should be devolved immediately. President Kenyatta ...
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Kenyatta secures tight victory in Kenya
The official election results in Kenya have finally been announced, and Uhuru Kenyatta managed to win the first poll round outright with a narrow 50.7 percent. But the main opponent, PM Raila Odinga, is filing a vote rigging complaint to the ...
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Now the election excitement starts in Kenya
The elections in Kenya so far have been carried out in an almost perfect way. They turned out to be well planned, well organised, and - contrary to what international media reports would indicate - Kenyans have not had any desire to let the polls develop into violent riots. On the contrary, the desire for democratic progress and increased welfare is dominant in the country. Reports from all ...
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UPDATE 1-Kenyan shares snap eight-session slide shilling firms
* Treasury assures investors on plans to tax capital gains * Shilling seen weakening on importers' dollar orders (Adds markets close, stocks) By Kevin Mwanza NAIROBI, June 19 (Reuters) - Kenyan shares halted an eight-session slide and the shilling rose after the government allayed concerns that plans to re-introduce a tax on capital gains would dull the appeal of equities and other asset ...
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Kenya Rapists on the prowl they target mentally ill women
The UN Convention on the rights of people with disability notes that women and girls with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse.? About 25 per cent of women with intellectual disabilities have been raped and six per cent forcibly sterilised. The Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped puts the number of mentally challenged people in Kenya at 3.6 million.? Mary is one of ...
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Lifestyle Rapid desertification in Kenya threatening livelihood
Kenya: Drought has eroded the country's natural resources to an extent that they are inadequate for production and support for livelihoods, Environment Cabinet ...
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Kenya Uhuru meets Governors over their roles
The summit, which brings together the President, Deputy President and all county governors, provides a forum for consultation and cooperation between the national and county governments and meets at least twice a year. Speaking during the meeting, President Uhuru Kenyatta said all functions that are supposed to be performed by county governments should be devolved immediately. President ...
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Kenya Freedom of media under threat in Eastern Africa
To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in ...
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Observers hail election preparations in Kenya
International election observers have hailed the preparations for next month's elections in Kenya. The electoral commission seems well in charge and no unrest has been registered. A repetition of the last, traumatic polls seems ...
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Kenya Niger Mali troops support Ghaddafi
The National Libyan Council, the interim government in "liberated Libya", is claiming that Kenya, Niger, Mali have sent regular troops to assist the Ghaddafi ...
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Kenya drought could create 5 million needy
Already, 1.6 million Kenyans are receiving food aid to compensate for drought and poor harvests. Government however warns the number could skyrocket to 5 million within a few months, as rains have kept ...
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Kenya Senator Chris Obure in court
Obure who is a respondent in the suit filed by then Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) chief tallying clerk Charles Mogere told the election court sitting in Kisii that the polls were fairly conducted and reflecting the will of the people of Kisii County. The senator told trial judge, Justice Ruth Sitati that submission by ...
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Rlg Expands To Kenya And Hopes To Capture East Africa
After what many market players have described as impressive performance in the West African region, ICT Device assembler, Rlg Communications Limited has entered Kenya, hoping to spread into the booming East African market. Senior officials of the company say Rlg is using Kenya as a springboard to enter Tanzania and Ugandan markets. The newly appointed Country Manager, Rlg Kenya, Mr. Sesi ...
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Kenya Controversy as patient dies resurrects then dies
This emerged after an elderly patient was declared dead on arrival to the facility on Tuesday for the hospital to recant it and but on Wednesday at 11am declare her dead. Relatives said a doctor at Provincial General Hospital declared that Hannah Wanjiru Chege,78, be placed at a temporary room awaiting transfer to the hospital mortuary on Tuesday when she was taken to the hospital claiming she ...
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Business Nominee to revoke railways agreement
Muli said the decision will be based on the fact that the Rift Valley Railways Consortium had failed in its mandate. He said as Transport PS, he will engage the Ugandan government so as to come up with a way forward over the matter. ?Our Ugandan counterparts are actually on the receiving end more than us,? he stated. He told the Transport , Public Works and Housing Committee that before the ...
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Kenya dismisses concern over capital gains tax
NAIROBI -- Kenya sought to assuage concern over a planned review of capital gains tax, saying it was too early to say what asset classes would be targeted in a measure aimed at compelling the rich to fund development. Finance Minister Henry Rotich told legislators in his budget speech last week there would be a review of the tax, which was suspended in the 1980s, to allow the wealthy to make a ...
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East Africa a new population heavyweight
The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, major power may be building ...
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Kenyan women milk fortunes from camel
Safia Kulow, in the arid centre of Kenya, is in firm control of her economy after she and other traditional Anolei women made big business of camel milk. Now they consider which investments to make to increase revenues from their ...
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Kenya assists Ethiopia fight Oromia rebels
The Ethiopian government is hailing Kenya for its registration of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as "an organised criminal body." Several OLF rebels have already been killed and arrested in ...
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Kenya leading the world on credit access
Kenya has been hailed by the World Bank as a world leader in financial innovation, revamping its financial services sector in such a way that access for the poor to micro-loans is made easier, providing the means to independence and future prosperity.
Proponents of micro-loans argue that they are a significant means of lifting the poor out of poverty and providing them with the means by which to develop financial independence. When one considers that Kenya has a population in which around 56% of people live below the poverty line, the government’s efforts to increase access to credit and financial services for the poor becomes poignant. Read more
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