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Kenya Car Importers Oppose Import Tax
MOTOR vehicle importers have opposed the proposed 1.5 per cent railway development tax to be levied on imported goods as contained in the budget. They now want President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene to ensure the tax is shelved saying this will push up the cost of imported goods like fuel, wheat, cars, rice, diapers and infant formula. The tax is expected to give Treasury Sh15 billion towards ...
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Kenya U.S.$46.7 Million for Kakamega Hospital Renovation
CHINESE investors will collaborate with the Kakamega county government to upgrade the Kakamega Provincial General Hospital to a referral status at a cost of Sh4 billion, governor Wycliffe Oparanya has said. Oparanya said his government has allocated Sh411 million towards the upgrade adding that negotiations with Chinese provincial governments are ongoing. "The hospital will handle ...
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Kenya Clearing Agents Seek Presidents Audience On Port Inefficiency
CUSTOMS and clearing agents have appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to address inefficiency at the port of Mombasa. The agents say the president should listen to their explanation on port's inefficiency and insecurity of cargo. The agents lauded the president's concern on the port and the recent visit by Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau. "We need to tell the ...
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Uganda Why Kenya Lags Behind Tanzania Rwanda and Uganda in Growth - World Bank Report
KENYA has lagged behind its peers in the East African Community in terms of economic growth for the last ten years, the World Bank says. In fact, according to the bank's latest Kenya Economic Update, the country's economic growth rate has not matched, even once, Africa's growth rate in the the past decade, though the two were close in most years. Kenya's annual growth rate ...
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Gabon opposition chief faces treason case
Mr Obame leads the one-year-old National Union party, uniting many of Gabon's main opposition parties. In the August 2009 presidential election, Mr Obame stood as an independent candidate, losing out to interim President Ali Bongo. The Gabonese opposition leader in January created international headlines as he declared himself winner of the elections held 17 months earlier. The declaration ...
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Concerns over Congos ill-prepared elections
Congo Kinshasa (DRC) authorities plan to hold the 5 December constitutional deadline to hold elections, but observers warn the vast country is in no way prepared to do ...
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Congo halts oil exploration in Virunga Park
The government of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has suspended the highly controversial oil exploration programme in the unique Virunga National Park, a World Heritage ...
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Large-scale logging underway in DR Congo
New decisions by the Congo Kinshasa government, lifting a 9-year moratorium, mean that up to 25 million hectares of rainforest could be sacrificed for industrial ...
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Uganda opposition wins Kampala mayor vote
In the first-ever significant opposition election victory, Erias Lukwago was declared winner of the polls in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. But the powers of the mayor's office have been ...
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DR Congo gets US$ 7bn debt cancellation
The main creditors of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) have agreed to cancel Congolese foreign debts totalling US$ 7.35 billion. Much of the unsustainable debt was accumulated under ex-Dictator Mobutu Sese ...
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Kenya Kabogo nominees challenged in court
The three: Justin Kimani, Barham Dev Vasisht and Alexandria Muhanji filed the case at the High Court in Nairobi, claiming the Kiambu County Assembly had rejected their appointments to the board on the grounds of age and ethnicity. Through their lawyer Philip Nyachoti, they sought to have the appointments put on hold pending the hearing and determination of the case. Ndungu had sought appointment ...
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Kenya AGs dilemma over suit filed by Senate
The move has put the Senate, National Assembly and Executive on a collision course. Though he is the chief advisor to Government, the AG is caught between a rock and a hard place on which side to support. That dilemma emerged Wednesday when the case filed by the Senate at ...
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Kenya Bribery claims dominate Othaya election petition
bribery by her agents tilted the voting in her favour. Six of the 10 witnesses who testified Wednesday claimed Wambui's agents openly dished out money to voters in queues. This, they claimed, was happening in the presence of police officers manning polling stations. Rhoda Nyawira Maina who was the chief agent of the ...
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Business Real estate booms in East Africa
East Africa Managing Director Michael Turner said there is strong demand for quality infrastructure in the region, which is in tandem with the growth of its economies that continues to attract new investors. Turner made the comments at the GRI Forum 2013, an annual conference that brings together international investors and real estate developers from across Africa. Speaking to a panel ...
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Kenya Police team protests OCPD appointees
County Commanders was done outside the process they had initiated. He said police drivers and bodyguards assigned to him and the commissioners have also been withdrawn and no reasons had been given. "It is intimidating when you wake up to find you have no driver since he has a letter recalling him to the headquarters. It is a serious matter," said Kavuludi. The police boss made the ...
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Kenya Raila tells AU to nurture democracy
Raila argued that to effect real change, the AU needs to guide Africa to a new awakening of a continental democratic revolution. "There is no freedom in an island surrounded by a sea of poverty and ignorance. As long as this continues, political freedom faces an uncertain future," the ex-PM warned. Raila made the remarks while making a keynote address at ...
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Kenya Senate raises red flag over devolution
Ministry misplaced He claimed that had the Senate been allowed to participate in the vetting of Cabinet Secretaries, he would have voted against Devolution Cabinet ...
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Kenya Strip search man seeks more in compensation
Thika, Kenya: The High Court has awarded him Sh200,000 for having been publicly stripped and humiliated by the police, but he is now appealing against the 'pitiable' ...
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Kenya Kenya pledges stronger ties with West
Kenya has had to review its foreign policy due to globalisation, responding to increased competition among states for export, foreign direct investment (FDI), appropriate technologies and development aid. "This development is therefore not at the expense of our cherished relations with the traditional partners. This was to make it more relevant and dynamic in the new world through ...
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Kenya Kenya drops 12 places in peace ranking
Kenya took position 34 in the Sub-Saharan African ranking. Top-Ten Positions Countries ranked in the top ten positions in the region were identified as Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Lesotho, Tanzania, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Djibouti while the bottom ten positions were taken by Chad, South Sudan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Central African ...
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Kenya Governor closes former councils bank accounts
The county administration in Kwale has announced the closure of all bank accounts operated by the defunct council whose assets and liabilities it ...
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Kenya Why this State building is a nightmare for many
To get there, he had to take the stairs. But on the third floor, a visibly tired Kajembe had to get back to the ground floor of the 15-storey building, choosing to forego a session of East Africa Community MPs' forum. For Government employees and wananchi seeking services, climbing up the stairs is a daily struggle they have to endure. "I have been struggling to go up the stairs since ...
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Kenya Over 100 displaced by flash floods
Tens of farmers in Othaya constituency, Nyeri County have protested over trespass and destruction of property in their land allegedly by Tana Water Services ...
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Kenya Deforestation threatens rare bird
The bird, which is only found at Arabuko-Sokoke forest, had been on the radar of conservationist for several years. They had attempted to locate its breeding ground in ...
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Kenya State rules out talks with Chinedu
She was speaking yesterday during a breakfast meeting in Nairobi with European Union heads. Mohammed dispelled the notion that Kenya is moving away from its traditional partners in ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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