Retirees Take a Hit From Year Long Slide of Stock Market
Pension funds are set to close the year with a substantial downgrade of their assets at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
View ArticleKenGen Net Profit Drops By 47 Per Cent
Power generating firm KenGen's net profit has dropped by 47 per cent for the year ended June, 2011, following the end of tax benefits it received five years ago for listing at the Nairobi Securities...
View ArticleKenya: Regulator to Appoint Forensic Investigator for CMC Next Week
The capital markets regulator will next week appoint a forensic auditor to further investigate alleged fraud at troubled CMC Motors as it emerged that the auto firm's chief executive will not be...
View ArticleKenya: Egyptian Billionaire Sparks Storm At GM Over Sales Dealership
General Motors East Africa (GMEA) is facing a revolt from dealers as it prepares to set up a new sales structure that will see Egyptian billionaire Mansour family become its sole distributor.
View ArticleEast Africa: Industrialists' Row Threat to Growth Into EAC Market
The rivalry between export-oriented manufacturers and their counterparts operating in preferential export schemes is threatening to derail the push for a bigger chunk of the regional market even as...
View ArticleBanks Charge Sh500 Penalty for Clearance of Old Cheques
Commercial banks are charging customers up to Sh500 to process old generation cheques as a penalty for using the leaves which are being phased out of Kenya's payment system.
View ArticleHeads of State to Attend UN Meeting in Kigali
Top leaders from at least 10 countries, including Heads of State and Government, will descend on Kigali early next week for a high-level UN conference on post-conflict peace-building, due November 8-9,...
View ArticleNigeria: Obi Pays Ojukwu's Medical Bill -Bianca
FOR the past one year, Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi has been paying the medical bills of the former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu which runs into hundreds of millions of naira.
View ArticleZimbabwe: 21 Hospitalised As Typhoid Outbreak Hits Harare
AT least 21 people have been admitted at a Harare hospital, while 54 others are under obsvervation following an outbreak of typhoid.
View ArticleZimbabwe: MISA 'Shocked' By Fresh Threat to Journalists
The Chairman of the media rights watchdog, MISA Zimbabwe, said the group is 'shocked' by the fresh threats leveled against the country's media fraternity this week.
View ArticleRwanda: Experts Call for Gender Equality in Electoral Processes
An expert's meeting that ended in Kigali yesterday concluded with a unilateral call for the enhancement of women's participation in electoral processes in Africa.
View ArticleNigeria: Gunmen Kill Two Women, Injure 14 in Zonkwa, Kaduna
The Kaduna State Police Command said on Friday it had commenced investigations into the killing of two women by unknown gunmen at Zonkwa, Zango Kataf Local Government Area. Some unknown gunmen on...
View ArticleSudan: Dinka Nok Leaders Return to Abyei
Sheikhs and sultans (local leaders) of the Dinka Nok tribe from Abyei returned to the city for the first time on Thursday after the war that broke out in the region in May.
View ArticleSudan: Health Care Unit Opens Inside Rumbek Prison
The governor of Lakes state Chol Tong Mayay and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) officially opened a new health care building for inmates at Rumbek Central Prison on Thursday.
View ArticleTop Kuduro Winners Get Prizes
The winners of the second edition of the music contest "Top Kuduro 2011", Própia Lixa, Cabo Snoop and the duo Destino Terrivel and Rodrigão, received, their respective prizes, Friday in Luanda,
View ArticleNigeria: Writing Health; Ninth Year Anniversary and Beyond
It was just like yesterday that I visited Media Trust for the Health Interactive 8th Year Anniversary on Thursday, 21st October 2010. It is another anniversary, the 9th to take a stock of what has...
View ArticleAfrica: Backed By the Climate Investment Funds, Eight More Countries Take Big...
India's plans for $775 million in support of a national action plan on climate change were endorsed
View ArticleDutch Court Approves Transfer of Victoire Ingabire Evidence
The petition to block the transfer of documents incriminating Victoire Ingabire was yesterday dismissed by a Dutch court ending a long standing tug-of-war between the prosecution and Ingabire's...
View ArticleSudan: Sudan Tribune Calls for South Sudan to Release Journalist
Since Wednesday 2 November Ngor Aguot Garang, a journalist at Sudan Tribune, has been held illegally by South Sudan's security services following the publication of an opinion piece criticising South...
View ArticleEquatorial Guinea: Concern Over Politically Motivated Arrest of Opposition...
The government of Equatorial Guinea should immediately release an opposition party member and civil society activist arrested on November 1, 2011, in what appeared to be a politically motivated act,...
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