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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.
DAKAR, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate all children against rotavirus, to end an unacceptable yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily.
VIRGINIA BEACH One adult and four children were taken to a hospital this morning after high levels of carbon monoxide were created by a portable generator inside their home. Firefighters were called to the home in the 1000 block of Kenya Lane about 12:20 a.m., said Battalion Chief Tim Riley. The generator was being under a home that didn't have power.
World Council of Churches - News Release Contact: +41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363 media@wcc-coe.org For immediate release - 08/12/2009 10:31:54 THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, SEEDBED FOR CHURCHES' RENEWAL Proper theological education is of strategic importance for the future of Christianity.
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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.
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.
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.
In 1964, Dennis Herlocker was nine years out of R.A. Long High School and getting bored with cruising Oregon timber for a living. Herlocker had long dreamed of visiting East Africa.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Mumias Sugar Co. Ltd, 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, according to a company advertisement in the Standard newspaper today.
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.
Sarah Hoffman took the opportunity to visit Kenya to share her passion for soccer with others.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 7 December 2009 – As the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 formally opened here today, eight newly named UNICEF 'Climate Ambassadors', aged 14 to 17, launched a dialogue on how music bridges generational and cultural divides in the fight to stop climate change.
Some young Christians from the United States are preparing for a near year-long missions trip, during which time they will give up their comfortable lifestyle to live like the indigenous people in eleven countries.
At this critical moment in history, when it is easier than ever before to reach out, touch, and shape another person's life, we have fewer excuses to not contribute to re-shaping our world for the better.
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.
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