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Kenya

Type: Country

Name: Kenya

population: 33,393,410

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 15 Documents

East African Community

East African Protocol ratified in Arusha

Finally the East African Community Common Market Protocol was Friday signed in Arusha, Tanzania.Five heads of State of the partner states that make the EAC regional economic community put pen to paper resting the myth that has done the rounds over whether ... [Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Arusha, East African Community, Common Market

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 Documents

African Development Bank

UPDATE 1-Kenya 2009 growth to be 3 pct - cbank governor

The east African country has suffered along with the rest of Africa from the global financial crisis. Post-election violence nearly two years ago also dented sentiment. 'The AFDB (African Development Bank) says East Africa will manage 6 percent, (with) ... [Interactive Investor International - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Kenya, Njuguna Ndung, African Development Bank, International Monetary Fund

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)

KENYA: Stigma holding back the fight against TB

Monika Juma, a multi-drug resistant TB and HIV-positive patient waits to be treated at the Blue House Clinic in Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya, 5 February 07. Monika has been treated for TB for two monthsSIAYA, 19 November 2009 (PlusNews) - When Dorothy*, ... [IRIN - 11/19/2009]

Entities: HIV/AIDS, Kenya, Tuberculosis, Nairobi

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 5 Documents

Kenya: State Gives Food for Mau Squatters

Kenya:State Gives Food for Mau SquattersGeoffrey RonoNairobi — The government has released relief food to be distributed to squatters being evicted from the Mau forest reserve.Bomet district commissioner Kimani Waweru said the government had given 300 ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Squatter, Bomet (Kenya), Kenya, Constructive Eviction

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents

Nicholas Cage visits Somalian pirates

Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison where suspected Somali pirates are being held.Mr Cage toured the Shimo La Tewa prison in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa, where he had gone to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.Cage, ... [Uzbekistan News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nicolas Cage, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Piracy, Bangladesh

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Gays say draft law ignored them

Not long after the uproar over the marriage of a Kenyan gay couple in London, the gay community in Kenya is coming out of the closet and agitating for rights they feel are ignored by the draft constitution.Spokespersons for the secretive and tightly-knit ... [Daily Nation - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Gay, Lesbian, Nairobi, Homosexuality

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

PriceWaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers survey places Russia at top of global fraud rankings

- Powered by MOSCOW: Russia has the worlds most fraudulent economy and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime have done little to stop its spread during the global financial downturn, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a survey. Seventy-one percent of Russian ... [Lebanon Daily Star - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Fraud, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Russia

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Medicine)

Kenya Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q1 2010

Published By: Business Monitor InternationalPage Count: 73Order Code: R302-8739DescriptionBMI’s proprietary Drug Expenditure Forecast Model reveals that the Kenyan pharmaceutical market willreturn to a double-digit growth rate in 2009 (in local currency ... [Mindbranch - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Kenya, US Dollar, Health Care, World Health Organization, Hetero Drugs

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 2 Documents

Pesticide kills Kenyan boy

In late October, a three-year-old boy in Western Kenya intentionally ate a handful of carbofuran, a lion-killing pesticide, and later was found dead by his father. "I am sure he ate it, because he had [the pesticide] in his hand and in his mouth," the ... [Digital Journal - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Pesticide, FMC Corporation, Kenya

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Drivers Gear Up for Regional Race - Zibb.com

Company: Kenya Airways Ltd (KNYAF)No reports of major technical changes as leading rally cars get the go ahead for the start of the 2009 Kenya Airways East African Classic Rally set to zoom off on Saturday from the coastal town of Mombasa."So far all ... [Zibb - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Mombasa, Kenya Airways, Armin Schwarz

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 Documents

Kenyan squatters evicted from Mau basin in Rift Valley

Several thousand people who had settled illegally in Kenya’s most important forest have left their homes at the beginning of an eviction plan designed to end rampant environmental degradation in the Rift Valley.Security officers this week entered the ... [Taipei Times Online - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Kenya, Constructive Eviction, Squatter

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Kenya: Merge or Perish, Saccos Warned

Nairobi Merge or perish, is the message Mr Joseph Nyaga, Co-operatives Development and Marketing minister, has for savings and credit co-operative societies.And towards this end, he said, the ministry is encouraging the more than 5,000 registered saccos ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Kenya, Thika (Kenya), Money Market, Nairobi

Quotes

"While it took us seven years to plant the first 500,000 trees, we now plant that many every year" Sabin said...

Trees Of Life [Christianity Today - 8 hours ago]

...from the use of web addresses written only in the Roman alphabet so that users around the world can write them in their own languages and scripts. "Kenya will have a chance to market its ICT industry as a viable Business Processing Outsourcing centre. Most of all, Kenya will be marketed as a key tourism destination in Africa" said Dr Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary Ministry of Information and Communication during a media briefing in Nairobi on Thursday

Kenya: New Initiative Seeks to Widen Internet Usage by Kenyans [AllAfrica.com - 9 hours ago]

...allowing the free movement of goods, services, people and capital within the bloc will make their region easier to market to overseas investors. "The protocol of the establishment of the East African Community Common Market is so approved" President Kikwete said at the signing ceremony, describing the event as a great step forward in in the journey towards regional integration that began...

East Africa opens new chapter with the new trade deal [Daily News TSN - 10 hours ago]

In its daily report, BullMarket.com wrote: "Ormat is a vertically integrated company that operates in two segments: Electricity and Products. The Electricity segment develops, builds, owns, and operates geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants, and sells electricity in the United States, Guatemala, Kenya, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. The company operates 12 geothermal sites and has five more under construction. Two of the projects are expected to be complete by year-end, and the other three by the end of 2010 or early 2011."

BullMarket.com Updates Outlook on Green Energy Stocks - Zibb.com [Zibb - 11 hours ago]

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East African Protocol ratified in Arusha [Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - 1 hour ago]
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Interpol 'red alert' to nab absconding convicts [The New Nation - 1 hour ago]
PricewaterhouseCoopers survey places Russia at ... [Lebanon Daily Star - 1 hour ago]
East Africa sign customs union protocol [New Vision - 1 hour ago]
Savers' money drives Kenya's Imperial Bank 9-mo... [Individual.com - 1 hour ago]
Pirates investing "colossal amounts of mon... [Individual.com - 1 hour ago]
E. Africa common market to take effect in July ... [The Saudi Gazette - 1 hour ago]
Uganda to benefit from sh21b project [New Vision - 2 hours ago]
Kenya Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q1 ... [Mindbranch - 2 hours ago]
Poland Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q1... [Mindbranch - 2 hours ago]
Social climbers [Engaged Investor - 2 hours ago]
Gays say draft law ignored them [Daily Nation - 2 hours ago]
Abusive Behavior in Puntland [press release] [AllAfrica.com - 3 hours ago]
World Aids Day: Gideon Mendel talks to Kenyans ... [Guardian.co.uk - 3 hours ago]
Body in church, spirit in Nairobi [Daily Sun - 3 hours ago]
EAC common market protocol to spur economic growth [Xinhua News Agency - 3 hours ago]
Centum posts fall in earnings [Daily Nation - 3 hours ago]
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Moveme... [United Nations Multimedia - 3 hours ago]
Shell in talks to pick up 10% in Essar Oil [Economictimes - 3 hours ago]
First Islamic Book-Fair is Held in Nairobi [AllAfrica.com - 3 hours ago]
Pope's Invitation to Anglicans: Merger, Coaliti... [AllAfrica.com - 3 hours ago]
Youth Warned Against Joining Somalia War [AllAfrica.com - 3 hours ago]
Vaccine offers best hope in malaria fight [The Monitor - 4 hours ago]
New York, terror trial capital of the US (... [Yahoo! News - 4 hours ago]
Web Exclusive: Morbid Symptoms, Current Healthc... [Canadian Dimension - 6 hours ago]
Wyclef Jean to Receive RFK Center for Justice &... [Urban Mecca - 6 hours ago]
Ensuring child rights still a challenge, 20 yea... [United Nations - 6 hours ago]

Blogs

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Kenya: Inventor of the World Wide Web lands in ... [Global Voices Online - 10 hours ago] Sir Tim Berners-Lee is in Kenya: “Credited with inventing the World Wide Web(WWW), Sir Tim Berners- Lee is in town and was today at the Strathmore University for ...
Will EAC’s common market deal work? [Africa Blog - 12 hours ago] For telecoms-tycoon-turned-philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, it’s one step forward, two steps back. For Benno Ndullu, governor of the central Bank of Tanzania, the whole ...
Building a world fit for children \| Marie Staunton [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 13 hours ago] Twenty years after the launch of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we must do more to listen to vulnerable childrenTo 13-year-old Mumo Katumo, the anniversary ...
Who's Fact Checking the Fact Checkers at AP? --... [The Corner on National Review Online - 16 hours ago] In the Washington Times this morning, there is a AP story (it's not really a report, more an ill-informed supposition) positing that a New York jury might very well ...
On Bowing and a Little History [PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts - 11/19/2009] As best as I can tell from reading people who know what they are talking about, Obama’s bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito was a protocol mistake. I will even go so ...

Audio/Video

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Kenya's forest dwellers evicted [Reuters Video: Top News - 10 hours ago]
Chinese Weekly News Review 11/20 [CNN.com - Video - 16 hours ago]
20 November - Kenyan Markets - Dexter Mahachi -... [ABN Digital - YouTube - 18 hours ago]
Orphaned elephants in Kenya [CNN.com - Video - 11/19/2009]
19 November - Kenyan Markets - Justus Agoti - S... [ABN Digital - YouTube - 11/19/2009]

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