President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday rang the bell to kick off the trading of Kenya’s first green bond at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Speaking during the launch, the President urged UK investors to use Kenya as a gateway to investing into Africa and a bridge to the emerging market
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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has called for the registration of people living with albinism countrywide to help Government plan for this group efficiently. Kadaga said that Persons Living with Albinism have so long been sidelined while capturing various groups in the national census exercise yet this has always
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A tweeter in Sudan, who has been leading a campaign to save five starving lions being kept in cages in Khartoum's Al-Qureshi Park, says one of the animals has been moved to a clinic because of its serious condition. He tweeted: "The extremely sick female was loaded this morning in
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Over 5,000 people have petitioned Parliament seeking a refund of money invested in Dunamiscoins Resource Ltd, a private firm that accepted deposits before suddenly closing shop in December. Dunamiscoins Resource Ltd was a privately owned company, which claimed it was committed to providing complementary roles to banks, bridging gaps for
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The South African government said it’s working on solutions for the national airline after failing to pay 2 billion rand ($138 million) in funding by a Sunday deadline. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government said it continues to work with South African Airways’ lenders and business-rescue practitioners, “with the primary goal of
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The world's billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60 percent of the global population, the charity Oxfam said Monday. It said poor women and girls were at the bottom of the scale, putting in “12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day,”
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China, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single-use plastics across the country, BBC reports. The restaurant industry will also be banned from using single-use straws by the end of 2020. Non-degradable bags will be banned in major cities by the end
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is in Togo to attend the Africa - France summit. Museveni arrived in the west African nation on Saturday morning and was received by the country's President Faure Gnassingbe at the Gnassingbe Eyadema International Airport in Lome. Faure was accompanied by a host of officials in
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The State Minister for Animal Industry, Lt Col (Rtd) Bright Rwamirama (pictured), has announced a total ban on the sale and movement of livestock in Lyantonde, Kiruhura and Sembabule Districts in a bid to contain Foot and Mouth Disease. While meeting farmers and district leaders at Kiruhura and Lyantonde District
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Coca Cola Beverages Africa has partnered with Environment Social Safeguards International and National Forestry Authority (NFA) to launch campaign aimed at planting over 4,000 trees. Speaking at launch event at Coca Cola plant in Namanve on Friday, Simon Kaheru, the Public Affairs & Communications at Coca Cola Beverages Africa said
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