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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.
Officials: In Ghana, cell phones reduce maternal mortality In Ghana’s Amensie village, where the Millennium Villages project made mobile phones near ubiquitous in 2006, deaths related to childbirth have fallen from 20 per year to zero in 2008, according to local health officials. Local health workers attribute the improvement in part to women’s new-found emergency access [...]
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.
CHARLESTON -- Maybe sometime this season or in one to come accolades might change Ta’Kenya Nixon.
Paul: My role is on the managerial and financial side, although I lived on the mine for five years when it was first developing.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church will have an open house for John and Cindy Korb, who will be leaving next month for mission work in Kenya.
With 119 deaths, Kenyan health officials are calling it “one of the worst outbreaks in a decade.”
Irish missionary Fr. Sean McDonagh is currently attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. He provides this account of his attendance at prior conferences and situates the present climate change conference within the history of U.N. climate change gatherings.
It was male circumcision day in this village in southwestern Kenya. by Adam Jadhav, GlobalPost Editor's note: Africa has the world's largest number of HIV infections and AIDS cases. Across the continent the disease is being battled with public education and antiretroviral drugs. A new additional strategy is male circumcision. Several tests show that circumcised men have substantially reduced ...
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.
Virginia Beach - Fire officials say a family of five living on Kenya Lane in Virginia Beach is lucky to be alive after their home filled with carbon monoxide.
( TWAS ) Three African scientists have been awarded the inaugural TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists, by TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world and the African Academy of Sciences. The award, funded by Microsoft Research, recognizes the outstanding work of African scientists that has -- or promises to have -- a positive impact in the developing world.
AFRICAN RUMORS The new U.S. ambassador to Tanzania is trying to dispel rumors that the Obama administration wants to open a military base in the East African nation where terrorists attacked the U.S. Embassy in 1998. "Nobody is talking about establishing a military base of any kind in Tanzania or, for that matter, anywhere else in Africa," Ambassador Alfonso E. Lenhardt told Tanzania's This Day ...
67 WALL STREET, New York - December 8, 2009 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Oil & Gas Production and Distribution Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 76 page feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. The full issue is ...
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MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 7 / Christian Newswire / --World Gospel Mission recently launched its Compassionate Ministries arm, and, and as a result, churches in El Salvador and Kenya are transforming their local communities.
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