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[African Arguments] Kenya has, over the past few years, enjoyed cordial relations with Sudan: taking in countless refugees both from what is now South Sudan and from Darfur, including tens of thousands of Sudanese migrants in the vast Kakuma Refugee camp in its north west.
Read More... MasterCard Opens East African Regional Headquarters in Nairobi, KenyaThu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0800
MasterCard Worldwide, a global payments and technology company, today launched its official East African regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. This development brings the number
Read More... Kenya says to import 67,500 T of maize by JuneTue, 24 Jan 2012 00:47:33 -0800
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is expected to import 67,500 tonnes of maize in the six months to June to boost its stocks, its Agriculture ministry said, a move likely to put weakening pressure on the shilling. The east Africa nation said it planned to import three quarters of a million 90-kg bags of maize from regional and international markets to bolster supplies despite bigger harvests following ...
Read More... East Africa: Pay Traders Over Chaos, EABC Tells KenyaTue, 07 Feb 2012 01:41:41 -0800
[East African] The East African Business Council is putting pressure on Kenya to compensate Ugandans and Rwandan traders for the losses incurred during the post election violence between 2007 and 2008.
Read More... Rwanda to keep focus on taming inflation, growth slowsThu, 09 Feb 2012 01:18:18 -0800
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's central bank on Thursday pledged to keep monetary policy "prudent" to safeguard against stubborn inflationary pressures which have triggered sharp rises in interest rates and public anger in neighbouring African economies. Rwanda has had a better run on inflation than other countries in east Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania where double digit inflation ...
Read More... FocusPoint International™ Opens Regional Headquarters in South AfricaTue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800
SAN DIEGO , Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FocusPoint International, Inc. (FocusPoint) a leading provider of global security and specialty risk management services, today announced the establishment of ...
Read More... Kenyan battery maker Eveready posts FY lossFri, 27 Jan 2012 08:34:25 -0800
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Eveready East Africa, Kenya's main dry cell battery maker, said on Friday it would cut costs after it posted a loss for its year ended September, when sales fell due to competition and operation costs soared. The firm also blamed a one-off payment to cater for waste management and a further sum paid to its pension scheme to plug a deficit arising from a decline in the ...
Read More... Sudan News: President Omar al-Bashir in Darfur to achieve unlikely peaceWed, 08 Feb 2012 08:56:49 -0800
President Bashir is in El-Fasher to inaugurate the Darfur Regional Authority. Tristan McConnell NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is in Darfur today, the restive western region where he is accused of ordering militias to commit genocide, where certainly tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of people have died and many more have been forced from their homes by a conflict that ...
Read More... Barriers blunt trade within Africa: World BankTue, 07 Feb 2012 21:55:34 -0800
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South African grocer Shoprite spends $20,000 a week in import permits to truck meat, milk and other goods to its stores in neighboring Zambia. One of its trucks may need as many as 1,600 documents to cross a border in southern Africa. Another major South African retailer Woolworths pays full tariffs to transport food and clothing to its franchise stores within the Southern ...
Read More... Zambia maize eases southern Africa supply crunchThu, 19 Jan 2012 03:43:29 -0800
JOHANNESBURG/LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia has robust maize stocks and sees little risk in using them to partly fill a regional gap as a supply crunch looms in southern Africa, pushing up futures prices for the staple and accelerating food inflation. South Africa is now importing maize to make up for deficits due to export commitments, while Malawi, which recorded a series of bumper crops helped by ...
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