By Nawa Mutumweno – The East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), a 10 000 km fibre-optic submarine cable system that has been recently laid along the east coast of Africa that will have a dramatic impact on the communications capabilities of existing businesses, as well as opening up access to global markets and creating a myriad of new business opportunities. Businesses will take advantage of the improved internet connectivity and the region’s low-cost, skilled workforce while for consumers, it will broaden access to information availability throughout the region and globally, increasing knowledge and enriching lives. It runs from Sudan to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 11th 2010 |
By Mark Oloo in Nairobi – With Kenya having approved a new constitution in a referendum last week, the East African nation is now walking a tight rope towards implementing the new laws. Yesterday, Parliament reconvened to discuss the legal framework needed to guide the transition from the old constitution to the new order. The ruling coalition is now expected to form Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committees to steer the enactment of the new constitution, which was endorsed by 68 per cent of voters in the referendum, widely praised as credible and peaceful. President Mwai Kibaki has set August 27 as... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 11th 2010 |
WASHINGTON – With just hours to go until Kenyans vote on a new Constitution, World Congress of Families, Managing Director Larry Jacobs announced the results of a successful petition drive “In Support Of The ‘No’ Campaign – Kenyans Opposed To The Pro-Abortion Constitution. Africa has been targeted by international population control groups for legalized abortion despite a 47% drop in Kenyan fertility and projections that show a declining population in the next 50 years. It’s reported the Obama administration has spent over $30 million to promote the Constitution that will open the door to a reduction in the black population.... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 4th 2010 |
SABOTI, 30 July 2010 (IRIN) – With only days to the constitutional referendum in Kenya, the issue of land – ownership, quantity and usage – remains the most controversial, with proponents and opponents suggesting different interpretations of land rights detailed in the draft. “For us who have lived on government trust land all our lives, the same way our fathers and grandfathers did, some of us hope the draft will help us claim what is rightfully ours,” Daniel Sambrumo, chairman of a group of 2,750 people evicted from a nearby forest in Trans Nzoia West District in western Kenya, told... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, July 30th 2010 |
NAIROBI – Kenya has relinquished its position as the most corrupt country in East Africa to Burundi, according to the East African Bribery Index 2010 by Transparency International-Kenya. The index which has expanded to Rwanda and Burundi this year, ranks the latter at the top position with a corruption prevalence of 36.7% while Rwanda is the least corrupt country in the region with a prevalence of 6.6 %. Kenya, at third position, has registered a slight improvement in the prevalence of corruption, from a corruption prevalence rate of 45% in 2009, to 31.9% this year. Uganda comes second at 33%... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, July 23rd 2010 |
