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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya, east Africa’s biggest economy, has extended the deadline for investors to buy its second infrastructure bond to Dec. 1, the central bank said today in a statement in Nairobi-based Daily Nation.
You know we Africans are great orators. Our great oral tradition is the reason the world has embraced our proverbs and allegories. Remember this one, America? “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” Teddy Roosevelt borrowed it from West Africa.
Harare - Zimbabwe's military has begun to withdraw from a contentious diamond field as private investors move in, the head of a South African mining company investing in the area was quoted Thursday as saying. The state-controlled daily Herald newspa...
The shares of 18 companies gained, nine declined and 28 were unchanged. The following were among the most active stocks on the Nairobi Stock Exchange today.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- NIC Bank Ltd., a Kenyan lender, said its nine-month profit advanced by 10 percent. Net income for the nine-months through September rose to 819.2 million Kenyan shillings, from 741.6 million shillings a year earlier, the company said in an e-mailed statement today.
Fearing food shortages, investors from wealthy countries are snapping up land in poor countries to grow food there. Is this development or exploitation?
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Property prices in Kenya , whose economy is the biggest in East Africa, are expected to remain high because demand is outstripping supply by five to one, Stanbic Investment Management Services Ltd. said.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
African safari trip specialists Natural High are now offering a range of family safari packages in several locations including Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia.
JENNIFER HUDSON TO PLAY WINNIE MANDELA: Oscar winner takes on wife of Nelson Mandela in next movie role. *Jennifer Hudson is set to star in a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela.
NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of Africa's largest wind farm.
A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.
A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s government bonds will begin automated trading next week, making transactions faster, following a similar move for corporate bonds earlier this month.
Students from Grace Christian School in Staunton took on the project of collecting shoes to send to Kenya shortly after the school year started. They sorted, tied and boxed more than 9,700 shoes and took them to a storage unit, led by their teacher, Cindy Mims.
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