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Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s debut Eurobonds may be priced to yield about 8.3 percent and are almost certain to be oversubscribed when offered next year, according to Renaissance Capital.
The shares of 14 companies gained, eight declined and 33 were unchanged. The following were among the most active stocks on the Nairobi Stock Exchange today.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s tea production fell 7.4 percent in October to 32.7 million kilograms compared with the same month the year earlier because of a drought.
BMI's proprietary Drug Expenditure Forecast Model reveals that the Kenyan pharmaceutical market will return to a double-digit growth rate in 2009 (in local currency terms), after declining to single-digit growth the previous year.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 24, 2009) - At two recent conferences on innovative malnutrition research organized by the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Helen Keller International's programs to reduce malnutrition were awarded first prize by government officials, NGOs, researchers and private sector representatives. On November 3, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya, HKI's Shawn Baker, VP & Regional ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
Sub-Saharan Africa still has the world's highest number of HIV cases, accounting for 67 percent of global infections, a United Nations reports said on Tuesday.
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.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Adcock Ingram Holdings Ltd. , South Africa’s largest maker of over-the-counter drugs, said it will use Ghana’s Ayrton Drug Manufacturing Ltd.
NAIROBI, Kenya, 24 November, 2009 – For the first time ever, a Child Health Days campaign has reached displaced children and women in Somalia's Afgoye Corridor, a 30 km stretch of road west of Mogadishu that is the world's most densely populated settlement for the displaced.
Filed under: News , Race and Civil Rights Our nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have produced some of this country's greatest leaders and innovators. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Oprah Winfrey, Branford Marsalis and Alice Walker are just a few of the great Americans to emerge from schools, such as Grambling , Spelman and Howard University . Originally founded in the ...
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Nakumatt Holdings Ltd. , Kenya’s largest retail chain, plans to raise $25 million selling as much as 33 percent of its shares to private equity investors, Business Daily reported.
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.
In 2006, historically black Lincoln University , near Philadelphia, mandated that entering freshman get tested for their body mass index, a measure of weight to height. Fast-forward to present day, the freshman of yesteryear ('06) will now be graduating in 2010, but those who are obese, (a body mass index [BMI] of 30 or above) will not receive a diploma unless they enroll and complete a fitness ...
Sudan, the largest country in Africa, is on the verge of plunging into yet another north/south civil war. International failure to guarantee the key provisions of a linchpin peace agreement means that a renewed war could be the most widespread and destructive in the country's half century of independence.
EMUHAYA, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - Fifteen years ago, Dan On'gayi was the first person in the western Kenyan village of Emuhaya to go public with his HIV status; at the time, the reaction from his community was so vitriolic he considered taking his own life.
