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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s central bank may resume interest rate cuts tomorrow, reducing the benchmark rate by half a percentage point as inflation eases and lending growth slows, a survey showed.
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Students from Harvard University won five Rhodes Scholarships and those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were awarded three, leading the 32 U.S. recipients of the award for 2010.
FITCHBURG - For Abraham Ng'etich, it was another profitable trip from New York City to Fitchburg. Ng'etich, 28, a native of Kenya and former All-American at Iona College, defended his Slattery's Turkey Trot title yesterday, covering the 5-mile route in 23 minutes and 44.3 seconds.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Buying land for survivors of domestic violence in Uganda. Providing dozens of scholarships and meals for Malawi students. Training hundreds of women to be trekking guides in Nepal.
MyAfricanTravels.com has released new web pages on topics like African safaris, the Egyptian pyramids, and shark tours.
Dr. Dan Holland and his wife, Heather, along with their seven children, ages 3 to 15, left their home in the Wilsonville/Tualatin area for three weeks last summer to serve with Roberts at the eye clinic. Dan Holland was able to see more than 100 patients in both the clinic and hospital.
American Red Cross and 19 other national societies to serve on the governing board of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
VIP Visits • Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament: Cairo (till 21 November). • Antonio Maria Costa, UNODC Executive Director: Kenya (till 23 November).
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd. said after-tax profit for the nine months through September fell to 4.56 billion shillings from 4.33 billion shillings, according to an e-mailed statement today.
For the past three years there's been a different overall champion at the Mountain Home Marathon for Kenya.
Two years of running the Mountain Home Marathon for Kenya's half marathon, two victories for Mountain Home's Wil Norris.
Four young men eager to change the world through a documentary are back home with a story they didn't expect to tell. What began as a plan to show others what real poverty means also became a life and death story. In early August, a small plane crashed in Nairobi, Kenya with two Americans on board who had been video taping one of the world's largest slums. The young men from St. Louis County ...
William Oppenheim wants to continue connecting people with volunteer opportunities online.
FITCHBURG -- There must be something inspiring about a cab ride from Worcester to Fitchburg. For the second consecutive year, New York-by-way-of-Kenya runner Abraham Ng'etich arrived in Worcester early Sunday morning, took a taxi to Fitchburg and
"How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex."
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- East African leaders in five nations will be aiming for greater economic clout Friday when they sign a common market treaty, officials in Nairobi, Kenya, said.
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