Kenya

KENYA: Men “rent” their wives to tourists to earn extra income

Kenya men rent wives to tourists to earn a living Poverty and unpredictable tourism industry forcing men on the east coast to send spouses into prostitution. AL JAZEERA Communities living by the coast depend mostly on tourism for their living [Mohamed Aligab/Al Jazeera] Kwale, Kenya – It’s a cloudy Sunday morning in Kenya’s Kwale county and Sande Ramadan just woke up to get ready for another weekend of work. Wearing a green vest and khaki shorts, he washes his face and proceeds to the living room where his wife Janet Wambui serves him breakfast. “Thanks for waking me up, I hate Read More

KENYA: Shocking details of mysterious local owners of SGR firm

An SGR train. FILE PHOTO | NMG By DAILY NATION Kenya signed a secret agreement with the Chinese allowing a mystery company with unknown local shareholders to run the Standard Read More

KENYA: Shocking details of mysterious local owners of SGR firm

An SGR train. FILE PHOTO | NMG By DAILY NATION Kenya signed a secret agreement with the Chinese allowing a mystery company with unknown local shareholders to run the Standard Read More

KENYA: SGR operations shrouded in suspicion and secrecy after much-hyped maiden trip

A photo of Madaraka Express train at the Kibwezi station, Makueni County. Detectives are investigating a complex web of tickets scandal at the SGR. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA Read More

Kenya on Course to Deliver 500,000 Homes by 2022 – Uhuru

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said his administration is on course to provide 500,000 affordable homes over the next three years. By BLOOMBERG In the coming months, Kenyatta will commission projects Read More

Kenya to pay new World Bank $750mln loan for 30 years

Kenya to pay new World Bank loan for 30 years FRIDAY MAY 31 2019 Kenya’s National Treasury in Nairobi. There has been a rise in government borrowing since President Uhuru Read More

AFRICA: Ebola vaccine information

rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus–Zaire Ebola virus (rVSV-ZEBOV) is an experimental vaccine for protection against Ebola virus disease.[1][2] When used in ring vaccination, rVSV-EBOV Read More

Kenya Airways CEO steps down

Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz to exit in December By DAILY NATION Kenya Airways Chief Executive Officer Sebastian Mikosz has resigned on “personal grounds”, effective December 31. In an internal Read More

Kenya upholds law criminalising gay sex

Kenya’s High Court has kept a law which bans gay sex. By BBC Gay-rights groups argued that the state has no business regulating matters of intimacy. However, religious groups said Read More

KENYA: Microsoft to set up technology development centre in Nairobi

Workers set up products at the Microsoft display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7, 2009. the firm is set to open a technology Read More

KENYA: Fresh survey that could give Uganda all islands

Kenya and Uganda yet to agree on Migingo Island ownership.Kenya risks losing most of its islands in Lake Victoria to Uganda if a fresh survey of the boundary between the Read More