Wed. May 16, 2012
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Brisbane Times
May 16, 2012
Websites in the
Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
May 16, 2012
Kenyan forces secure the area outside a nightclub following an explosion outside the club in
Mombasa,
Kenya, late Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
AllAfrica.com
May 16, 2012
By Mathews Ndanyi, 15 May 2012 More than 30000 people in
Mogotio constituency are faced with persistent famine. Some of the affected families have been forced to move to urban areas in search of food.
Creamer Media's Engineering News
May 16, 2012
Kenya is close to sealing a deepwater exploration contract with France's Total and has offered three other oil majors new offshore blocks, the country's
petroleum commissioner said.
Reuters
May 16, 2012
Nairobi May 16 (Reuters) -
Kenya's
capital markets regulator approved a listing by CIC Insurance on Wednesday, after the company shelved initial public offering plans due to a lengthy bear run at the Nairobi bourse.
Reuters
May 16, 2012
The last Virgin Atlantic flight from
London's Heathrow will be on September 23, while that from Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport,
Kenya's main air gateway, will be a day after. The airline flies five times a week to
Kenya, and also operates in four ...
Reuters
May 16, 2012
Central bank intervenes to sell dollars, mops excess liquidity * Shilling seen pressured as
banks go long on dollars * KCB shares lift stock market (Adds
markets close, stocks) By Kevin Mwanza
Nairobi, May 16 (Reuters) - The
Kenyan shilling fell on ...
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2012
By Eric Ombok and Johnstone Turana on May 15, 2012
Kenya's government signed a $600 million two-year loan with three foreign
banks that will be repaid at an interest rate of 475 basis points above the
London interbank offered rate,
finance Minister ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
That question troubled Craig Cleveland, a
Texas medical sales rep, leading him to book a flight to
Kenya. Cleveland was visiting a hospital as a representative of the surgical instrument management and consulting company IMS.
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2012
By Johnstone Ole Turana on May 15, 2012
Kenya's shilling slumped for the sixth day, its longest losing streak in nine months, amid speculation oil importers were buying dollars in the
market.
Reuters
May 15, 2012
By James Macharia |
Nairobi (Reuters) -
gunmen detonated
grenades outside a night club in the
Kenyan coastal city of
Mombasa on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding several others in the latest attack since
Kenya sent troops into
Somalia to crush ...
Reuters Africa
May 15, 2012
Nairobi May 15 (Reuters) - The average price of the top grade
Kenyan tea inched higher to $3.56 per kg at the auction this week, from $3.53 per kg last week, traders said.
Daily Nation
May 15, 2012
Photo/FILE
Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, is a regional investment hub for major multi-national companies setting up base for a slice of the East African
market.
The Guardian (blog)
May 15, 2012
But thanks to Shamba Shape-Up, a reality show that does for
Kenyan
farms what Extreme Makeover does for homes, Mungai is a minor celebrity here in Limuru.
Daily Nation
May 15, 2012
By FRANCIS W. WANGUSI This year, Kenya will migrate its four million analogue TV viewers to the digital platform. The switch over is the culmination of a journey that started in 2006, during the World Radio Conference in which all countries of the ...
Business Daily Africa
May 15, 2012
Beyond this date, a 16 per cent import duty will be slapped on
Kenya's exports to the
EU. Photo/File By BETTY GUCHU (
email the author) Business Daily's Brussels's Correspondent, Betty Guchu spoke to Peter Gakunu, the former director of Trade and ...
NewsDay
May 15, 2012
Nairobi-
Kenya plans to start negotiations on a sovereign bond after agreeing to borrow $600 million in a debut two-year syndicate loan from foreign creditors at an interest rate of 4.75 percent above Libor, the
finance minister said on Tuesday.
East African
May 15, 2012
Kenya has slashed its 2012 economic growth projections to between 3.5 and 4.5 per cent from last month's forecast of 5.2 per cent.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2012
By Sarah McGregor on May 15, 2012 The International Criminal Court will hold hearings next month to set the trial date for four Kenyans accused of directing and financing post-election violence four years ago that killed 1500 people.
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2012
By Johnstone Ole Turana on May 15, 2012 Kenya's shilling slumped for the sixth day, poised for its longest losing streak in nine months.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
From 4th June, travelers from
Kenya will be able to fly from
Nairobi to the Vietnamese city via Emirates' state-of-the-art hub in
Dubai.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
Houston, May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CAMAC Energy Inc. (ASE:CAK) today announced that it has signed Production Sharing Contracts ("PSCs") with the government of The Republic of
Kenya for previously awarded exploration Blocks L1B, located onshore in ...
IRINnews.org
May 15, 2012
Mt Elgon, 15 May 2012 (IRIN) - At least 1.3 million farmers in
Kenya - more than double the figure for 2010 - do not have any maize seeds to plant this season, despite favourable weather conditions, according to the Ministry of
agriculture.
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2012
By Johnstone Ole Turana on May 15, 2012
Kenya's shilling slumped for the sixth day, its longest losing streak in nine months, amid speculation oil importers were buying dollars in the
market.
Washington Post
May 15, 2012
GARISSA,
Kenya - A
Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised
bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with
Somalia.
Reuters
May 15, 2012
... stocks) By Kevin Mwanza and Beatrice Gachenge
Nairobi, May 15 (Reuters) -
Kenya's central bank sold dollars direct to
commercial banks on Tuesday, lifting the shilling off early lows, while
Kenyan shares inched up for the fourth straight session.
Reuters
May 14, 2012
Cbank mop up $84 mln via repos * Shilling seen pressured by liquidity surge * Safaricom shares lift bourse higher (Adds
markets close, stocks) By Kevin Mwanza
Nairobi, May 14 (Reuters) - The
Kenyan shilling weakened against a globally stronger dollar ...
Voice of America
May 14, 2012
Sudanese
children play with a
broken playground chair in
Kakuma Refugee camp, which houses over 60000 refugees in North western
Kenya. (File Photo) KAKUMA,
Kenya - Kakuma refugee camp in northern
Kenya is filling up again with a new wave of refugees ...
Capital FM Kenya
May 14, 2012
Nairobi, Kenya, May 14 - Newly appointed acting Local Government Minister Fred Gumo is challenging those who want to be president to stop basing their campaigns on bashing Prime Minister
Raila Odinga.
Bikya Masr
May 14, 2012
Nairobi:
Kenya has made significant progress in scientific innovations as to accelerate social economic development in the country.
Capital FM Kenya
May 14, 2012
Nairobi, Kenya, May 14 - Clinix
healthcare Chairman Jayesh Saini has now come out to defend his company saying the tender that they were awarded for provision of healthcare was clean and that it has no 'ghost' clinics as claimed.
The Star
May 14, 2012
The problem of bed shortage is particularly alarming in the new tourist circuit of western and north eastern Kenya. Planning assistant minister Peter Kenneth warned that the bed shortage means Kenya is not in a position to host a major international ...
Reuters Africa
May 14, 2012
Nairobi (Reuters) -
Kenya's second-largest cement firm Athi River Mining posted a 17 percent rise in first-quarter pretax profit to 396 million shillings, helped by higher production and growing demand for cement for
infrastructure projects.
BBC News
May 14, 2012
Ms Rionge is as famous in Kenya for her success in starting up several companies at the same time as she is for Wananchi.com, a cable, broadband and internet-based telephone company.
New Vision
May 14, 2012
Nairobi -
Kenya's Uchumi Supermarkets plans to open three new outlets in neighbouring
Uganda to tap a fast-growing
economy that has been underserved by retail chains, its chief executive said.
Reuters Africa
May 14, 2012
Nairobi May 14 (Reuters) -
Kenya's energy regulator raised petrol and kerosene prices, but reduced the price of diesel, and said fuel prices could fall next month on a downward trend in the price of crude internationally as well as a stable
currency.
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
Ali Bakaari, was captured near the Kenyan border, after Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops stopped a vehicle Mr. Bakaari was in.
Reuters Africa
May 14, 2012
Nairobi, May 14 (Reuters) - The
Kenyan shilling weakened slightly against a globally stronger dollar on Monday and traders said they expected it to weaken further, pulled down by increased liquidity in the
market.
Kansas City Star
May 14, 2012
By JOE ROBERTSON Last week at East High
school, Fartun Guul, 19 of Ethiopia (left), walked to class with Fardowsa Hussein, 16, of
Kenya. Of course it would take monstrous forces to drive families from their homelands. A hoodlum's
gun in Juarez,
Mexico, ...
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
May 14, 2012
Johannesburg (miningweekly.com) - Aim-listed Goldplat has added another 118 173 oz at its Kilimapesa
gold mine, in
Kenya, hiking its resource to 247 484 oz.
Vancouver Sun
May 14, 2012
Nairobi - Claus Mortensen is a private
Kenyan rancher with a passion - endangered rhinos - and now a mission: to save his herd from slaughter by ruthless poachers who sell their horns to
Asia, where they are prized as a miracle drug.
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
Nairobi -
Kenya's anti-
terrorism police have launched major manhunt for a German national who sneaked into the east African nation to plan terrorism attacks in the country.
Capital FM Kenya
May 14, 2012