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International

Kenya Ranked 3rd On Access To Credit In Sub Saharan Africa

Kenya is ranks third in Sub Saharan Africa for access to credit, a survey by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in...

International

Kenya King of Comedy Joins 5,000 Kids For Global Handwashing Day

Kenya's king of comedy Daniel Ndambuki aka Churchill on Saturday join soap brand Dettol as the world marks the Global...

International

Uganda Oil Refinery Completion Date Pushed To 2020

Uganda has rescheduled the completion date for its planned crude oil refinery plant in Kabaale, Hoima district, by two...

Business

6th Annual Norwegian-African Summit To Address Africa’s Expanding Cities

Norwegian and African leaders across industries are expected to meet once again at the Radisson Blu Scandinavian Hotel...

International

Kenya Nominates Foreign Minister For Top AU Job

Kenya's surprise decision to nominate the Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed for the job of African Union (AU) Commission...

Opinion

Creation; Connecting Akan Cosmology, Bible And Geology

When society invest in educating a kin, the kin was not privileged to look down on the society but to revamp and uplift...

Opinion

Kenya Refugee Return Scheme Flouts International Law

Nairobi (AFP) - As Kenya prepares to close the world's largest refugee camp, a rights watchdog said the repatriation of...

Opinion

Payments East Africa 2016 On 27-28 September, Radisson Blu Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

Banks and telcoms worldwide are rethinking their current business models and sources of revenue in light of Fintech...

International

Uganda’s Latest Hollywood Production Premiers

Queen of Katwe, a film about a young Ugandan girl’s rise from unimaginable squalor to global stardom looks poised to...

International

Tanzania Plans To Set Wall Between Money Transfer and Mobile Phone Services

Tanzania plans to issue separate licences to mobile phone companies running money transfer services in a move to secure...

International

Kenya Will Deny Water, Electricity and Phone Bills Debtors Loan Come 2017

Failure to pay electricity, water and telephone bills could now land Kenyans on the list of defaulters at the credit...

International

Obama’s Advisors Give Final Recommendations On Doing Business In Africa

The President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) has issued its final recommendations to U....

Business

Africa Becomes Dumping Ground For Old Aircraft

Just like other products, Africa has become a scrapyard for aircraft that have outlived their usefulness in Europe,...

Business

GREL To Buy 19,500 Tonnes of Dry Rubber

The Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL) is confident of purchasing approximately 19,500 tonnes of dry rubber from over...

Opinion

Could It Be the Next Magic Bullet Preventive Or Curative Medicine In Ghana?

With about 200 species and more than 5,000 hybrids associated with the genus, hibiscus can be had in a rainbow of...

International

Tanzania Earthquake Kills 13 and Injures More Than 200

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has killed at least 13 people and injured 203 in northern Tanzania, the authorities say. The...

International

Tanzania Earthquake Kills 10 and Injures 192

The earthquake struck in the north-west of the country A magnitude-5.7 earthquake has killed at least 11 people and...

International

Volkswagen To Begin Assembling Cars In Kenya

South Africa has signed a deal with Kenya to assemble vehicles in Thika, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced...

Opinion

Kenyan Wins 2016 Norman Borlaug Award For Field Research And Application

A Kenyan research scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute based in Nairobi has won the 2016 Norman...