+ ] By George Obulutsa DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Canada's Artumas Group Inc (AGI) expects a 300 megawatts (MW) natural gas-powered project it is working on in southern...

+ ] By Crispian Balmer EVIAN, France, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The global financial crisis will hit Kenya's economy badly, Prime Minister Raila Odinga told Reuters on Monday, rejecting previous...

The leader of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) will return to the dock in a Durban High Court on 22 October to hear the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) appeal against...

Joburg Gay Pride 2008 was celebrated by an estimated ten thousand gays, lesbians, friends and families on Rosebank streets, JOhannesburg, on Saturday...

In a bid to eradicate breast cancer among women worldwide, Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) along with Ghana Breast Cancer Alliance have detailed a course of action for low and middle-income...

Another company known as Corps Worldwide is willing to put its money in the production of bio-fuel.It will also bring in at least 100 Kenyan business owners in the diaspora who will give their...

Kenya's shilling weakened against the dollar on Monday due to high corporate demand for the greenback and muted inflows, and dealers said sentiment on the local currency remains...

Kenya must beat DR Congo on Tuesday in their third preliminary round match if they hope to qualify for the quarter-finals of the 10th Africa Nations Basketball Championships for under-18 women going...

A group of Kenyans who were recently flown back into the country after being held in Ethiopia for several months as terrorist suspects now want to sue the state for...

The Leader in Face-to-Face Education for Senior Executives Offering regional and national programs, CIO (and CSO) events bring together some of the most respected names and thought leaders in...

 President Kibaki said the move would be to make the council, which is a think-tank of experts, more representative and enable the Government achieve a desired goal of eight to 10 per cent economic...

NAIROBI, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki on Monday ordered the energy and finance ministries to lower electricity tariffs in response to high costs that have been passed on to...

+ ] By Wangui Kanina NAIROBI (Reuters) - Eight Kenyans who were arrested as suspected Somali Islamist fighters and covertly flown to Ethiopia threatened to sue the government on Monday if the...

The two-year survey, conducted by the federal ministry of health between 2005 and 2007, also revealed that at 75% of such blindness is avoidable. Blindness afflicts male and female in all parts of...

The company has invested in excess of Ksh1 billion in a coal milling facility to replace usage of fuel oil in the clinker manufacturing process due for completion in December...

The court which started operations in 2001 will hear a suit of a Tanzanian businessman who is suing the Kenya Port Authority for loss amounting to USD 24million for imports he ordered from abroad...

We were told about the place by two Kenya students at Washington University in St Louis (the VP debate venue) Joyce Mugure and Raphael 'Rafohz' Njoroge, who had about a bar where Kenyans and other...

The seizure of a ship bearing a consignment of military hardware from the Ukraine by the Somali pirates is proving to be a mystery wrapped in an...

East Africa could make windfall gains from the current global financial crisis as investors in developed markets look to shift some of their portfolios to safer...

: Fitch Ratings says in a recently published special report that the Kenyan banks are performing well, despite an increasingly challenging operating environment following...

+ ] BUJUMBURA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Burundi's tea export earnings grew 62 percent in the first nine months of the year, boosted by low supply of the crop, a tea board official said on Monday. The...

A management shake-up is underway at the East African Development Bank after the institution posted a shocking $8.9 million loss for 2007 on the back of three successive years of...

+ ] NAIROBI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki directed his government on Monday to lower electricity taxes in response to high bills that have been hurting consumers. The Kenya...

Immigration Police say that from Moyale, human cargo is ferried to Garissa, Isiolo then Nanyuki and Voi from where it is taken to Tanzania through Taveta border...

When Somali pirates hijacked the MV Faina, they probably didn't know about its deadly cargo of 33 T-72 tanks, rocket launchers, rifles and heavy weapons allegedly destined for Kenya's...

, the semi narcotic herbs popularly chewed in Somalia. The order came when clergymen reopened the airport after being rehabilitated following the capture of Kismayu by the Islamists in mid August....

Emotions ran high as the men recounted their ordeal after being reunited yesterday with their families, relatives and friends. They were brought back to Kenya after police and immigration officials...

Kenyan and other African governments should consider providing loans that will fully cover essential needs of NEEDY students at universities, the chancellor of the Catholic University of Eastern...

Once Agro-Chemical settled down, it turned out to be a matter of time before they made a mark on the score sheet as they made several attempts on Tusker...

The grand scheme to introduce genetically modified foods into Kenya seemed to shift into top gear after the Ministry of Agriculture launched a campaign last month to make the country appreciate...

Three legislators allied to the Party of National Unity want Prime Minister Raila Odinga to order his supporters to vacate houses in Nairobi which they illegally occupied after the post-election...

In the event, it is easy to understand the indignation across East Africa that local oil companies have not passed on the fall in global prices to their...

Lucy (for legal reasons, we cannot use her real name without her consent), a Kenyan single mother of two, became hunted soon after she bolted from virtual slavery in Germany, where she had worked as...

The night operation was calculated to ensure all the suspects would have been safely received by relatives by the time the news was broken in the...

A draft Bill forwarded to the Attorney-General threatens to award human traffickers life in prison if it becomes law, after a multi-sectoral committee appointed to write a law against human...

- South African health authorities are on high alert after three people died in hospital from an unknown, infectious disease similar to hemorrhagic fever, health officials said. A fourth person, a...

"The smaller the volume, the more you can save... This is because bigger books cost more to copy," said an accounting student at Job Mark, a private college. "But sometimes, we do not do it because...

+ ] (The following statement was released by the ratings agency) Oct 6 - Fitch Ratings says in a recently published special report that the Kenyan banks are performing well, despite an...

"Energy costs alone now constitute over 40 per cent of the total manufacturing costs, driving a 33 per cent increase in overall costs," said a statement by KAM chairman Vimal...

Islamist insurgents are demanding some of the weapons aboard a hijacked Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks but the pirates holding them have refused to part with them, a local official said on...

With simple tools and no financial backing, he has risen to a challenge considered a serious headache by many local authorities in the country and has succeeded in managing the tonnes of garbage...

Justice, Constitutional and National Cohesion minister Martha Karua is expected to move the long-awaited Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill and the Kenya Review Bill to pave way for comprehensive...

Sharp divisions have emerged in the CDF national board following claims of in-house interference in the ongoing exercise of recruiting a new chief executive...

Ideally, pleading guilty is an admission of wrongdoing. But criminals in Kenya have realised that it could be a lifeline, and they are handily using it to evade jail, investigations...

Supporting the Southern Sudan government is in our long-term strategic interest and we should not shy from it. The truth of the matter is that as a Western ally, Kenya is an existential enemy of Arab...

During the recent commodity boom, some of our countries have managed to accumulate reserves, and have strengthened the external sector and government balance sheets. Nevertheless, in the non-bank...

Kenyan Muslim leaders are calling on the government to return 19 other terror suspects who are still languishing in Ethiopian prisons over the extra-judicial renditions. The religious leaders are...

Initiated by regional multimedia giant, Nation Media Group, and business advisory firm, KPMG, the winners of the Top 100 Survey were finally...

The government has given the Tea Board of Kenya, the industry regulator, sweeping powers in its quest to revive the once vibrant but now troubled...

Equity Bank has started recruiting key staff to spearhead its expansion to Southern Sudan, a month after it announced that it had secured the necessary approvals to start...