From assistant priest to Kenya's steel tycoon
AHMEDABAD: He has earned the sobriquet 'Guru' amongst his peers in Kenya. With a net worth of $650 million, Gujarati steel tycoon Narendra Raval of Devki Group today is one of the wealthiest...
View ArticleKenyan Blogger Defamation Case Highlights the Need for Education
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View ArticleStudent-collaborator rights, Kisumu app, and new Zotero release
In June this year, a few open source projects expanded and several useful resources were published, along with many other developments in the digital humanities. I have highlighted the most interesting...
View ArticleAs Obama visit to Kenya nears, his half-brother laments they've become distant
Two decades before Barack Obama became US president, Malik fulfilled a pledge to their father to bring his sibling home to their village in western Kenya. Barack visited the house of Barrack Hussein...
View ArticleCloseness gone, Obama's half brother says
Sarah Obama, President Barack Obama's step-grandmother, attends a groundbreaking Saturday for her Mama Sarah Obama Foundation charity in her hometown of Kogelo, Kenya. Of a possible visit by the...
View ArticleKenyans Are Ready to Greet Obama With Open Cash Registers
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View ArticleFor some Kenyans, Obama is coming home
A vendor sells American flags at an event attended by Sarah Obama, the step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, in her home town of Kogelo, near Kisumu, in Kenya Saturday, July 18, 2015. President...
View ArticleKBF cancels weekend league games in Nairobi.
Ulinzi's Emmaculate Agusta drives past KPA's Natalie Akinyi in a league match last weekend. KPA host USIU-A on Saturday.
View ArticleOur wish for President Obama in Kenya
This week, Kenyans are looking forward to the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama, perhaps nowhere more so than in Kisumu, the city in Western Kenya closest to the home of his father. Sadly, Kisumu...
View ArticleObama - lockdown' extends from capital to upcountry Kenya
NAIROBI: Nairobi, Kenya's capital, continued to experience stifled activities as US President Barack Obama tour of the East African nation entered the second day on Saturday. Most businesses in the...
View ArticleWill Obama visit his 'homeland'? Western Kenyans hold out hope.
Anticipation of President Obama's visit has been high in his ancestral home, where he is seen as a rare example of success from the politically sidelined region. But news that he will not make a stop...
View ArticleBaby 'AirForceOne' Named in Obama's Honor
A handful of children born during the President's visit to his father's homeland have been named after him, his family - and even his airplane. PHOTO: Lucia Kagotha holds her new born baby boy, named...
View ArticleKenya: Importers Given a Month to Adopt New Kebs Mark
Following requests from importers, the Kenya Bureau of Standards has given importers a one-month transition period to ensure smooth adoption of the new standardisation mark. KEBS held a successful...
View ArticleKenya: Kenya Airways Is Bankrupt, Senate Team Told
A financial analyst on Friday told a Senate committee inquiring into financial crisis at Kenya Airways that the national carrier is bankrupt. Martin Odipo, a financial analyst at Khoya and Company,...
View ArticleKenya: Senate Blames KQ Managers for Huge Loss
A committee of the National Assembly has summoned two Cabinet Secretaries to shed light on the crisis at Kenya Airways. The Transport committee yesterday ordered acting Transport CS James Macharia and...
View ArticleKenya: Kisumu Gang Kill and Torture, Film Attacks - Report
Human rights activists in Kisumu say a gang is torturing, hacking and beating people to death - and filming the murders. One person was tortured and hacked to death with crude weapons in Nyalenda...
View ArticleKenya: Six MPs Oppose Uhuru Sugar Deal
Six MPs from Western and Nyanza regions yesterday gave President Uhuru Kenyatta a seven-day ultimatum to cancel the Kenya- Uganda sugar import deal. They threatened to lead a campaign to destroy cheap...
View ArticleKenya: Super Petrol Sneaks Above Sh100 Mark in New Fuel Prices
A litre of super petrol will cost Sh102 in Nairobi and Sh103 in Nakuru from August 15 to September 14, the ERC has said. The commission attributed the Sh4 increase in prices to the implementation of...
View ArticleKenya: Senate to Grill Three CSs Over KQ Losses
The Senate Select Committee probing the affairs of Kenya Airways has lined up three cabinet secretaries to shed light on the crisis at national carrier. Tomorrow morning, the committee, which is...
View ArticleTanzania: KPC Inefficiency in Eldoret Pushes Rwandan Fuel Transporters to Dar
Loading challenges and congestion at the Kenya Pipeline Company's depot in Eldoret are the key reasons why Rwanda's fuel transporters prefer to incur higher costs by using the Dar es Salaam port, fuel...
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