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Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The African Development Bank and Kenya signed a 12.5 billion-shilling ($166 million) loan agreement to help build a road linking the East African country to Ethiopia in a bid to increase cross-border trade.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The African Development Bank and Kenya signed a 12.5 billion-shilling loan agreement to help the country build roads linking to Ethiopia, Kenyan Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta told reporters today in the capital, Nairobi.
Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan urged Kenya Monday to accelerate efforts to improve living conditions in Nairobi's squalid slums, which experts say could pose a threat to stability and national security.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said east Africa’s biggest economy will seek to borrow $10 billion next year in its first sale of Eurobonds, helping to pay for improvements in infrastructure.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Mumias Sugar Co., a Kenyan grower and processor of the sweetener, is looking for companies to help it build an ethanol distillery plant in the East African nation, it said in an advertisement.
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Abdullah makes his living as a tour guide on Lamu Island, a palm-tree paradise in the Indian Ocean, just off the coast from the heaving port city of Mombassa. Short and bearing a wild, rheumy eye, he's as mellow as a beach bum. But mention soccer, and Abdullah becomes as excited as a kid on a sugar high.
A top human rights official in Kenya says a government aid program for tens of thousands of people displaced by Kenya's 2007 postelection violence has failed because of widespread corruption and inefficiency.
Kenya is facing one of the worst cholera outbreaks in a decade and at least 122 people have died in the past month as a result of the epidemic sweeping across the east African nation.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya is reissuing a 10 billion- shilling ($132.9 million), 20-year fixed coupon discounted treasury bond for budgetary support, the country’s central bank said in a statement published in the Daily Nation newspaper today.
A government program intended to aid tens of thousands of people displaced by Kenya's post election violence has failed because of widespread corruption and inefficiency, a top human rights group said Monday.
The most stricken areas are the arid swaths of northern Kenya, which were hit this year by a devastating drought, and where many are surviving off dirty water.
The shares of 13 companies gained, 20 declined and 22 were unchanged. The following were among the most active stocks on the Nairobi Stock Exchange today.
Held at Hopewell Valley Central High School, the recent Model WHO Club fundraiser was part of an ongoing effort to aid needy villagers in Kenya’s Keroka community.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya plans to sell a “substantial amount” of Eurobonds next year to fund the development of infrastructure, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s All-Share Index fell for the second day, declining 0.18, or 0.32 percent, to 55.71 at 9:57 a.m. in Nairobi today. The shares of 15 companies gained, 10 declined and 30 were unchanged.
GARISSA, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - "Desist from engaging in adultery, go for HIV tests, do not allow your sons and daughters to marry before they are tested... if you are positive go to the hospital and get free drugs."
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