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What is the significance of a successful malaria vaccine?
The need for constitutional reform in Kenya has long been obvious.
There is a very useful principle in economics called the diamond-water paradox.
When 700 cancer experts met recently in Dar es Salaam, few had illusions about the challenges facing them.
Mobile telephony operators have taken their lobbying for lower spectrum costs for 3G licence a notch higher and are now actively engaging the government in talks.
Global Trust Bank, one of the latest entrants to Uganda's banking sector, has completed its transition into a fully fledged commercial bank but with the focus on corporate clients.
Mobile telephony provider Safaricom is the most respected company in East Africa for the third year running.
MTN Uganda and Vodacom Tanzania are among six beneficiaries of grants from the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Fund, which is administered by the GSM Association Foundation, Inc, which represents the worldwide mobile communications industry.
As we mark 10 years of new forms of co-operation, let's bear in mind that we have been here before and that, though circumstances may have changed, we are not yet out of the woods.
The Harmonised Draft Constitution is finally out! And now we all have 30 days to read it and submit any last comments we might have before the process moves from the Committee of Experts to parliament.
The officials of Galmudug State administration have started enrolling the Internally Displaced People Somalis from southern Somalia in Galka'o town in Mudug region, official said on Sunday.
The Islamist officials of Hisbul Islam organization in Hiran region have warned the Ethiopians to carry out projects in parts of the region in central Somalia, official told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
The African Union troops (AMISOM) have made new military base in Digfer hospital in Mogadishu, just as they blockaded the movement of the traffic of Mekka Al-murakama street in the capital on Sunday morning.
Dr. Elijah Mushemeza, the former Political Science lecturer at Makerere University, and now an Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Business and Development Studies at Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara, is planning to unseat NRM heavyweight, Amama Mbabazi, as the party's Secretary General.
SAM Okello Okello, one of the brains behind most Ndere Troupe's classy dance and drama productions, has finally defected. Ndere Troupe and Okello seemed as conjoined as Siamese twins for the 25 years of Ndere Troupe's existence but word reaching us is that Okello recently joined National Theatre as its Production Manager.
THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and capital across the member countries.
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
THE acting Permanent Secretary in the health ministry has said embattled principal accountant, Nestor Machumbi Gasasira, was on leave, contrary to media reports that he had returned to office.
As the nation was engrossed in debate on the harmonised draft constitution, a major milestone passed with little notice in Parliament.
The government would then renounce their rights and the consequent shares split into smaller denominations, a measure meant to accommodate future rights issues by making the units affordable.
The government has said it will pursue other ways of taking Kenya's vegetables, fruits and flowers to the US even though there are no direct flights.
Regional CEOs believe a crucial window of opportunity has opened with the signing of the East Africa Community (EAC) Protocol in Arusha on Friday. The move is widely expected to spur economic growth.
Kenya has 14 green energy and climate friendly projects emerging as part of a clean development mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol.
Consumers will pay more for electricity if the ongoing rains do not fill the Seven Forks dams complex to required levels.
With suitable pomp and pageantry, the harmonised draft constitution of Kenya was finally unveiled in Nairobi on Tuesday. Kenyans have been given 30 days to peruse and debate the draft, and suggest to the Committee of Experts any areas they feel need to be changed or addressed to their satisfaction.
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