CONSTITUTION OF KENYA PREAMBLE We, the people of Kenya— ACKNOWLEDGING the supremacy of the Almighty God of all creation: HONOURING those who heroically struggled to bring freedom and justice to our land: PROUD of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation: RESPECTFUL of the environment, which is…
Genetically modified maize will double productivity while reducing costs of fertilizer by eliminating the infestation of the stem borer. Scientists from the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation say the water efficient BT maize has the potential to yield 3.7 tonnes of per hectare. Kenya produces an average of 1.6 tonnes per hectare compared to the global average of…
Benin is the last stop on this two-week road show during which the co-founders unveiled their long-term objective to use solar activities to drive education by introducing connected tablet devices. COTONOU, Benin, August 6, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ —Akon Lighting Africa concluded its African road show last night in Benin. The three co-founders, Akon, Thione Niang and Samba…
Kampala, Uganda; 5/8/2015: So come the 10th Parliament in 2016, and the number of Members of Parliament in Uganda shall catapult from the current 375 to 400+ once the proposed new constituencies have been created! But does someone realize what a nuisance this is? Do we even appreciate the blatant fact that the position of an MP has been so watered down…
People and organizations can do great things with Cortana, Microsoft Edge, Xbox App, new Office Universal apps and more REDMOND, Wash., July 30, 2015/ — Microsoft Corp. announced that Windows 10 will become available Wednesday as a free upgrade(1) or with new PCs and tablets. Windows 10 includes innovations such as Cortana,(2) an Xbox app and Microsoft Edge for a familiar, yet more…
TANZANIAN brands have been urged to embrace and adopt digital advertising to reach their target consumers if a sustained growth of commerce is to be achieved. On average, the Tanzanian user looks at their smartphone more than 200 times in a day, which consists of time spent checking social media feeds to messaging on WhatsApp and e-mails. Data from…
US President Barack Obama told African entrepreneurs in Kenya that they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa. He said governments had to help by ensuring the rule of law was upheld and by tackling corruption. Obama was addressing a Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the start of the first presidential visit to his father’s homeland….
Over the last decade, African economies have grown faster than any others in the world. But most of this growth has occurred outside of agriculture, even though agriculture employs one half to two-thirds of the population. This fact more than any other explains why Africa’s economic expansion has failed to generate benefits for the majority of Africans. At this…
Investing in African farmers is a moral necessity but also an economic imperative, according to the head of the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), who fears that recent progress in the continent’s agriculture sector could be eroded without further investment. As she prepared to travel to Ethiopia to participate in the UN summit on financing for development, Dr Agnes…
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2015 – A growing number of developing countries are investing in social safety nets to improve the lives and livelihoods of billions of poor and vulnerable people, yet around 55 percent of the world’s poor or 773 million people with acute needs still lack safety net coverage – especially in lower-income countries and in urban areas-and countries must…