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Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s All-Share Index closed at a 4 1/2-month high, adding 0.6 percent to 57.88 in Nairobi. Trading ended an hour earlier at 1 p.m. local time.
Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya Airways Ltd., sub-Saharan Africa’s third-biggest carrier, rose the most in a week after resuming night flights into and from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after it repaired runway lighting.
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- African tea prices rose to a record $3.12 a kilogram (2.2 pounds) at the world’s largest auction of the leaves in Mombasa, Kenya, Africa Tea Brokers Ltd.
Kenyan police said on Thursday they had arrested two more people suspected of being behind the killing of an Irish Catholic priest who had worked as a missionary in the country for more than four decades.
Living in a Nairobi slum, she adds a newborn found in a plastic bag to her brood of four children and seven orphans. The problem of abandoned infants is significant in Africa, activists say. Agnes Awori is hurrying to the market, early afternoon. She sees a cluster of perhaps two dozen people on the railway track. Probably the usual thing, she thinks: someone killed by a train.
Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya, ranked as one of the most corrupt countries by Berlin-based Transparency International, has suspended 50 officials over misappropriation of funds in two donor-funded projects, Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta said.
Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya Electricity Generating Co., the nation’s biggest power producer, headed for a 3 1/2-month high after saying it’s seeking engineering contractors to design two power lines for the company and Ethiopian Electric Power Corp.
(Corrects duration of bond in headline.) Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s central bank said demand for a 10 billion shillings, 20-year bond was more than double the amount offered.
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya Airways Ltd., sub-Saharan Africa’s third biggest carrier, said it resumed night flights into and from Nairobi after the airport repaired its runway lighting.
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Kenyan tea output rose 4.1 percent in November from a year earlier, the Tea Board of Kenya said. Production of the leaf advanced to 35.8 million kilograms (79 million pounds) last month from 34.4 million kilograms in November 2008, the board said in an e-mailed report today.
Fifth-grade students at Schiesher School experienced a special learning opportunity recently thanks to a project hatched through the school district's self improvement program and the teachers who partnered with Kenya Connect, a nonprofit organization that builds and maintains schools in Kenya. The fifth-graders learned about the Kenyan students through a pen pal program and online videos.
KIAMBAA, KENYA -- Nearly two years after a wave of post-election violence brought this East African nation to the brink of civil war, Joseph Ngaruiya has learned to ride his bike with one leg, the other having never fully healed from machete cuts. He's learned to tolerate the "sorrys" and small t...
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Kenyan tea production increased 4.1 percent in November from a year earlier, the Tea Board of Kenya said. Output of the leaf rose to 35.8 million kilograms last month, from 34.4 million kilograms in November 2008, the board said in an e-mailed report today.
NAIROBI, 24 December 2009 (IRIN) - An ambitious, door-to-door voluntary testing and counselling exercise launched in November resulted in more than 1.5 million Kenyans being tested for HIV, according to a senior government official.
Carjackings are a fact of life in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. And anyone who takes to the road there risks being a victim. This particular crime has spawned a growing industry — defensive driving schools.
NAIROBI, Kenya - A helicopter fired warning shots toward a suspected pirate skiff, where six Somali men sat among assault rifles, grappling hooks and an aluminum ladder. But before it could be boarded by sailors from a nearby warship, the men threw all the gear overboard.
