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Top salaries for top managers in Kenya.
Top managers in Kenya have more disposable income than their counterparts in many industrialised countries according to a survey ranking salaries of chief executives in 48 countries worldwide. The Wor...
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Cinemagoers the world over may have a chance to see a Kenyan movie that is making headlines thanks to a recent deal for its international release.
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Nairobi affected by earth tremors.
Nairobi has been affected by multiple tremors over the past several days and the quakes could continue for some time, the national earthquake information centre of the US Geological Survey has said. T...
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Smoking ban introduced in Nairobi.
Smoking has been banned in public places in Nairobi under a by-law that is already in force in the cities of Nakuru and Mombasa. Under the restrictions Kenyans caught smoking in schools, public office...
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The annual peace march organised by Africa Peace Point (APP) in conjunction with local civil society organisations will take place in Nairobi on 15 September under the banner
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Mungiki crackdown continues in Nairobi.
Police have shot and killed two more presumed members of the Mungiki sect in Nairobi, taking to at least 47 the number of suspected gang members killed since the start of June. The outlawed sect is al...
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Kenya has introduced a ban on thin plastic bags and imposed a 120 per cent tax on thick ones in an attempt to reduce environmental pollution in the country. The measures have also come into force in U...
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The Mexican government through its embassies in East Africa is offering scholarships in 2008 for plastic artists (sculptors and artists working with materials that can be moulded or modulated, such as...
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Three arrests over Nairobi bombing.
Three men are being held in connection with the explosion that killed at least one person and injured nearly 40 others in central Nairobi on 11 June, police sources have said. Four other suspects - a...
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At least one person has been killed and several others injured in an explosion near the Ambassador Hotel in central Nairobi. Some witnesses report having seen a man holding what looked like grenades t...
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Mungiki crackdown continues in Nairobi.
Police have shot and killed at least nine people (14 according to some sources) in Nairobi
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Illegal billboards in Nairobi to be pulled down.
Nairobi city council has given owners of illegal advertising billboards 48 hours to secure a licence or see them pulled down. The measure affects billboards erected without the approval of the city au...
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Housing price slump in Nairobi.
There is bad news for property owners and developers in Nairobi as the 2003-2005 housing boom is creating its first casualties,
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Free secondary school fees in Kenya.
The government has announced that it is to scrap tuition fees at state high schools in 2008 to boost secondary education in the country. In a move timed to coincide with general elections in December...
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Positive outlook for Kenya tourism?
Over 500,000 people visited Kenya in the first quarter of 2007, up seven per cent over the same period last year. This translated into an 18 per cent rise in earnings from KSh14.7 billion in January-M...
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Pan-African short film competition.
Young African filmmakers are invited to take part in a short-film competition exploring the challenges facing the African continent and the ways in which Africans have and have not risen to meet them....
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Nairobi-based cultural organisation AfricanColours is organising a tour of some of Nairobi
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Wildebeest migration to change.
The annual migration of wildebeest and zebra from Tanzania
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M-Pesa money transfers in Kenya.
Kenyans can now make use of a new service allowing them to send and receive money by mobile phone. The scheme, called M-Pesa, is a joint initiative of Vodafone and Kenya
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Phoenix Players call for help.
Ian Mbugua, director of the Phoenix Players, has launched an appeal for help as dwindling attendance figures threaten the future of the leading semi-professional repertory theatre company in Nairobi....
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Nairobi students to get Google Apps.
Some 50,000 students at the University of Nairobi are to benefit from improved access to web-based communication tools following a deal between Kenya Education Network and the US-based web giant Googl...
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Virgin to launch London-Nairobi route.
Virgin Atlantic is to begin operating daily flights between London and Nairobi on 2 June. Flights from Nairobi
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Kenyans interested in following the activities of their representatives in parliament can now do so on an innovative new website, www.mzalendo.com. The brainchild of two Kenyan bloggers, Ory Okolloh a...
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The Eastern Africa Grain Council in Nairobi is to host the second African grain trade summit from 18-19 April on the theme
