Kenya starts greenhouse tomato farming - FreshPlaza
Kenya has started greenhouse production of tomatoes, raising hopes that the popular vegetable will become available throughout the year at affordable prices. In the new system developed by the Kenya Horticulture Development Programme (KHDP) and ...
Kenya Electricity Signs $1.3 Billion Geothermal Deal (Update1) - BusinessWeek
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya Electricity Generating Co., the East African nation’s biggest power producer, signed a contract worth more than $1.3 billion for Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd. to be consultants for the construction of facilities to ...
UAE to begin Twenty20 qualifier campaign against Kenya - Gulf News
The UAE will heavily depend on their skipper Khurram Khan, shown batting against Namibia in the Intercontinental Cup at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, especially in the absence of hard-hitting batsman Amjad Javed and experienced campaigner Mohammad ...
Kenya issues $188 mln, 8-yr infrastructure bond - Reuters
NAIROBI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Kenya invited bids on Tuesday for a 14.5 billion shilling ($187.9 million) eight-year infrastructure bond with a 9.75 percent interest rate for its roads, energy and water sectors. The Treasury plans to raise a total of 32 ...
Thousands Displaced by Cattle Raid in Uganda Migrate to Kenya - Reliefweb.int
The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) is assisting hundreds of people displaced by cattle-related clashes in Uganda, who are camping in open air in Pokot North District. The cattle raid in the neighbouring country occurred at night on 28th January 2010 ...
Kenya : Raila Seeks More Powers - AllAfrica.com
Nairobi — FRUSTRATED by President Kibaki's laid-back style in dealing with corrupt ministers, Prime Minister Raila Odinga now intends to amass more powers to deal with culprits himself. Raila wants to take from Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta the ...
Mbeki in Kenya for talks on Sudan’s peace process - Sudan Tribune
February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) –The former South African president Thabo Mbeki and the head of the African Union Panel on Darfur (AUPD) met today with senior Kenyan officials to brief them on the work of his panel and garner their support. President ...
Kenya Airways Operating Performance: 3rd QTR – Oct to Dec 2009 - pressreleasepoint.com
The airline put into the market place capacity of 3,179m seat kilometres representing a year on year growth of 5%. This increase, though largely attributable to the successful launches of operations into seven new destinations within Africa in 2009 ...
Kenya Electricity Signs $1.3 Billion Geothermal Power Contract - BusinessWeek
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya Electricity Generating Co. signed a contract worth more than $1.3 billion for 280 megawatts of geothermal power with Sinclair Mertz of New Zealand, it said in an e-mailed statement today. The project will start in February ...
KENYA: Poverty hinders the fight against Nyanza's fishy sex trade - Reuters AlertNet
KISUMU, 9 February 2010 ( IRIN ) - If you were a fishmonger in Kisumu, a city on Lake Victoria in western Kenya, you would have to sleep with the fishermen to get stock to sell so you could make a living. A year ago Lucy Agoya got fed up with the ...
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Haiti awash in Christian aid, evangelism
 The drama on the sidelines of Haiti's earthquake, in which 10 American missionaries were arrested trying to take children out of the country, was a fiasco waiting to happen. By Kari Huus.
Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of drug gang
Mexican authorities on Monday arrested two suspected leaders of a brutal drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, a U.S. official said.
Afghan avalanches kill at least 28, strand 1,500
 Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
 Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.
Report: Iran begins controversial nuke process
 Iran's state TV said the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.
Recovery effort revives China’s quake zone
 China is showing off the results of its massive drive to rebuild its own quake zone 22 months after a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck and devastated the region and left at least 90,000 dead.
Spring rains threaten Haitian survivors
 In Haiti's devastated capital city, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than 500,000 people are living.
World Blog: Did 'pandering' cost U.S. lives at Afghan base?
Why did eight American soldiers die defending an remote outpost the U.S. military no longer wanted to hold? NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Kabul.
N. Korea’s Kim reiterates disarmament pledge
China's Xinhua News Agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated his country's promise to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
NATO: Afghans to play big role in offensive
 Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.
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