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Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya Electricity Generating Co. and Daewoo International Corp. plan to form a joint venture to build a coal-fired power plant in the port city of Mombasa, said Eddie Njoroge, the managing director of the Kenyan generating company.
Recent rainfall has brought new vegetation to parts of Kenya that haven't seen rain for years, but aid workers say it's too little, too late to undo the damage caused by years of drought.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- CMC Holdings Ltd., Kenya’s second- biggest car dealer, retreated the most in two weeks after saying profit for the year through September will be lower than a year earlier as increased financing costs cut vehicle sales.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- CMC Holdings Ltd., Kenya’s second- biggest car dealer, said profit in the fiscal year through Sept. 30 will be lower than that reported a year earlier as increased financing costs cut vehicle sales.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Daewoo International Corp. , a South Korean trading company, was selected as the preferred bidder for a $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant project in Kenya.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Mauritius’ SEMDEX Index fell the most in almost two weeks, retreating 0.9 percent to 1,662.03. Botswana’s measure declined for a fourth day, falling 0.7 percent, to 7,378.73, while Kenya’s All-Share Index rose for a third day, adding 0.2% to 56.29. The Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index fell 0.5 percent to 20,795.49 and the FTSE/Namibia Overall Index rose 0.9 percent ...
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Former United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan said he was deeply concerned by widening ethnic divisions in Kenya that threaten to spark renewed violence in the East African country.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Mauritius’ SEMDEX Index fell the most in almost two weeks, retreating 0.9 percent to 1,662.03. Botswana’s measure declined for a fourth day, falling 0.7 percent, to 7,378.73, while Kenya’s All-Share Index rose for a third day, adding 0.2% to 56.29.
LAIKIPIA DISTRICT, Northern Kenya – It was a shocking sight and the putrid smell almost made me vomit: A hundred dead cows were spread across the dry plain in various stages of decomposition. Flies buzzed around their insides which had oozed onto the dry grass.
The family of a man held at Guantanamo Bay for his alleged involvement in an attack on a Kenyan hotel and an attempt to bring down an airliner is suing the Kenyan government for $30 million in damages, claiming wrongful detainment and torture.
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.
Former UN chief Kofi Annan, the chief mediator in Kenya's post-election violence, said Tuesday the east African nation's leaders had recently made progress in furthering the reform process.
NAIROBI, 10 December 2009 (IRIN) - Kenyan patients on stavudine, an antiretroviral drug in widespread use, which the UN World Health Organization (WHO) wants phased out, will have to wait a little longer to be put on alternative medication.
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.
Nairobi - Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan urged Kenya's leaders Tuesday to quicken the pace of reforms considered crucial to avoid a repeat of the violence that followed disputed presidential elections in December 2007. Annan broke...
Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday praised Kenya's government for acting on reforms necessary to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed that followed the disputed 2007 president poll.
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