Country Sets Stage for Automated Share Trading
Rwanda is set to automate trading at its securities exchange by the end of this year, taking the plan to inter-link the east African capital markets a step closer to reality. The Capital Markets ...
View ArticleWhy Property Prices Are Slowing Down
When I wrote an article suggesting that sea piracy proceeds were fuelling escalation of property prices in some Kenyan cities, I received a lot of flak. There was sufficient empirical evidence. ...
View ArticleMPs Should Leave Banks Alone On Shilling
"If you want to eat a toad you look for a fat and juicy one" Ibo Proverb Moseti ran a small money lending business from his village shop somewhere in a little valley in the South Rift. ...
View ArticleRailways' Property Seized in Debt Row
Auctioneers raided the troubled Kenya Railways Retirement Scheme over a Sh9.7 million debt owed to four pensioners. They took away 50 computers, photocopiers, printers, telephone receivers and ...
View ArticleKenyan Companies Given More Time to Study EAc Rules On Counterfeit Imports
Manufacturers have been granted a one month extension to give their views on the proposed harmonised quality standards for the East Africa Community. The EAC secretariat had scheduled to have all ...
View ArticleOver 1,000 Coffee Farms Recovered in Negage
Negage - At least 1,875 coffee farms are being recovered by small and great growers in Negage municipality, Angolan northern Uije province, to increase production, Angop learned from a source here. ...
View ArticleCanadian Firm Finds More Rare Earth Mineral Deposits in Kwale
Kenya could get a better estimate of the total deposits of rare earth minerals in Kwale County by June this year, a Canadian firm involved in their exploration at the Coast has indicated. Pacific ...
View ArticleMPs Set to Give Final Report On Shilling's Fall This Week
The Parliamentary select committee on the depreciation of the shilling retreated to Mombasa mid last week where it completed a report on the causes of the free fall of the Kenyan currency last ...
View ArticleNodding Mystery - Do More Research
Last week, the government finally announced a Shs7 billion plan to fight nodding disease, the mysterious illness that has, since 2008, ravaged families--mostly children-- in the Acholi Sub-region. ...
View ArticleNigeria ruling party wins in president's home state
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party candidate has been elected governor of President Goodluck Jonathan's home state, election officials said on Sunday, ending months of ...
View ArticleSaif Gaddafi to be moved to Tripoli, then tried
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son and one-time heir apparent of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will be moved to a Tripoli prison within two months and then face trial, the ...
View ArticleKabila aide dies, minister hurt in DRC plane crash
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed and his finance minister injured in an airplane crash near the eastern town of Bukavu on ...
View ArticleZambia's Afcon win 'written in the stars'
It was a bittersweet victory in Libreville, Gabon. Last week after arriving for the finals, Zambia's current players laid flowers on a stretch of sand in Libreville not far from where a Zambian ...
View ArticleSouth Sudan limits dollar export to Uganda, Kenya
The Central Bank of South Sudan has directed foreign exchange bureaus to effect transactions to Uganda and Kenya in the local currency as it attempts to reserve the available dollars in stock ...
View ArticleSouth Africa's strike-hit Kruger Park to hire retired rangers
South Africa's Kruger National Park is recruiting retired game rangers to replace its striking ranger force, a spokesman said Tuesday, amid a rhino poaching crisis that has hit record ...
View ArticleExplosion rocks military barracks in northern Nigeria
A blast rocked an area near a military barracks in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday but the cause of the explosion and number of casualties were not immediately clear, an official ...
View ArticleUAE aid 'urgently needed' in Somalia
ABU DHABI // The former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, has stressed the urgent need for UAE financial aid to help with the crisis in Somalia. Speaking on the sidelines of the Centre for ...
View ArticleAfrican-American monuments catching on in Richmond
Ten years ago, only a handful of public memorials to African-Americans were located in Richmond, including statues of tap-dancing sensation Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in Jackson Ward, a ...
View ArticleAustralian fast bowler Dirk Nannes praises hard South African cricket
Australian Twenty20 specialist Dirk Nannes has praised South African cricket, and said it was the perfect place to play hard cricket.It's a good place to be in terms of good, hard cricket," Sports24 q
View ArticleAFM delegation in Libya for bilateral talks
The Commander of the Armed Forces of Malta, Brigadier Martin G. Xuereb, has led an AFM delegation for a day of military-to-military talks in Libya. Also present at the meeting were staff from the ...
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