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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. 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.
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.
NAIROBI, Kenya and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridge International Academies announced today it received a $1.8 million investment from Omidyar Network to scale a network of primary schools that will educate more than one million impoverished children in Africa.
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.
Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals.
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.
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