By Hudson Gumbihi
EVEN before agricultural credit lending institutions in Kenya come to terms with the effects of the devastating global economic crisis on their business, they have been thrown into yet another tricky situation where they have to fight the impact of the ravaging drought that has led to massive crop failure and livestock deaths.
Conversely, [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
Chinese Development Bank has reiterated its commitment to support increased overseas investment by Chinese enterprises.
The bank is state-owned, and the positive pledge comes at the right to when various Chinese companies are involved in major infrastructure development and improvement programmes in Kenya.
The bank’s Senior Commissioner Fan Jinsong said they were keen on intensifying [...]
ARMONK, N.Y. IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years:
· Cities will have healthier immune systems
· City buildings will sense and respond like living organisms
· Cars and city buses [...]
By Edmond Luchiri
The run-up to 2012 general elections has begun in earnest, and one phenomenon that conspicuosly catches the eyes of any observer is the return of the now infamous harambee spirit reminiscent of Kanu’s forty-year hold onto power.
In a swift turn of events, more so as defined by going-on in the political arena and [...]
Mombasa, Kenya.
President Mwai Kibaki has today urged Coastal leaders and area residents to forge unity in stamping out the drug menace in the region.
President Kibaki noted that eradication of drug abuse in the region called for concerted efforts and determination between leaders and wananchi in order to secure the potential and future of the area’s [...]
EAC – The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the AfDB Group approved combined loans and grants worth USD 8.15 million to finance a multinational Railway Project Study in Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
The second phase of the Dar es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati Railway project study will cover the existing 970-km [...]
By Patrick Idwasi PhD
In two mama mbogas mama Ciku and mama Atieno are selling tomatoes and mama Ciku finds that mama Atieno had lower prices she would immediately embark on a mission to find out what her secret was. Was it her source? Was she using cheaper transportation? Was she targeting higher volume sale thus [...]
By Kengere Ombasa
Reports that Kshs 1.3 million contributed by the government in Nairobi and the donor community towards Free Primary Education Funds (FPE) may have been mis-appropriated are disgusting, to say the least. This is especially so when it comes hot on the heels of other claims that kshs.75 million meant for SEPU and Kshs. [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
A plan by government to conduct an audit on property owned by foreigners has attracted criticism especially from members of the Somali community. Last week, Internal Security Permanent Secretary Francis Kimemia ordered provincial administrators to carry out the property census with Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, being the point of focus.
The decree [...]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 2009
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham was in South Africa this week to highlight the global progress that has been made on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
During his busy stay, the football star visited a UNICEF-supported programme in a clinic in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha Township, where he met and [...]
