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  • 90 percent of Africans are not protected by smoke-free laws 11 Nov 2009 00:51 GMT
    ... to protect health." Within the last year, Kenya and Niger have enacted national smoke-free policies, ... which account for over a quarter of GDP. In South Africa, VAT returns showed that smoke-free laws ...

  • Give Gifts That Give Back! 11 Nov 2009 00:15 GMT
    ... initiative supporting families in both Rwanda and Kenya. From the Rwandan Virunga Artisan Cooperative, a ... in Kenya are helping support their local economy through handicrafts. This gift, sure to be appreciated ...

  • Firms Fail to Comply With New Employment Laws 10 Nov 2009 23:33 GMT
    ... Most Kenyan workers have been locked out of benefits ... business, at a time when the Kenyan economy is underperforming. A survey by audit firm ... 1.7 per cent), but much lower than inflation which averaged 22.6 per cent. As a ...

  • Kenya to benefit from Uganda's return 10 Nov 2009 21:32 GMT
    ... Daily Monitor Correspondent Nairobi Kenya’s single largest export market, Uganda, is seeing its economy rebound faster than expected thanks to the ... this year and June next year. Headline inflation is at an average of 13.3 per ...

  • Experts to assess Kenya's reform record 10 Nov 2009 20:14 GMT
    ... Review Mechanism. New Partnership for Africa’s Development Kenya secretariat chief executive Grace Ongile on Tuesday ... addressing poverty, inequity and regional imbalances, tackling unemployment, consolidation of national cohesion and unity. However, ...

  • Informal Sector Workers Get Full Pension Coverage 10 Nov 2009 23:33 GMT
    ... has come into force, offering millions of Kenyans in micro enterprises and households security in ... board additional money for investment in the economy. It represents a significant departure from the ... in new recruitment in an economy where unemployment remains one of the biggest challenges. The ...

  • Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity, High Prices 10 Nov 2009 10:10 GMT
    ... anything to eat. Since March 2008, Uganda's inflation rate has been in double digits ranging ... exported - mainly informally - to hunger-stricken Kenya and the lucrative markets of Southern Sudan ... boost agricultural production through transforming Uganda's peasant economy into a commercially diversified economy," said Mr ...

  • African Markets - Factors to watch on Nov 10 10 Nov 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... shillings ($1 million) worth of bonds in Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) traded on Monday ... close was 152.54 billion rupees. Mauritius' annual inflation is likely to fall below a central ... prices rise, analysts said on Monday. Zimbabwe's economy may grow an average 15 percent a ...

  • The African Economic Community: rhetoric vs. reality 10 Nov 2009 03:50 GMT
    ... the former East African Community (EAC) comprising Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in 1967, which until ... movement of people remains modest, largely because unemployment remains very high in Africa and there ... Egypt with a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$625 billion and population of 527 ...

  • Great Awakening: Is a new one taking place outside the West? 10 Nov 2009 23:35 GMT
    ... former Muslims pray to Jesus in Nairobi, Kenya. Count evangelical social activist Jim Wallis among ... 40 churches in Columbus, Ohio, birthed church-based employment services in areas plagued by poverty and unemployment, he noted. Another Justice Revival scheduled Nov. ...

  • America Diving into a Great Depression 10 Nov 2009 00:57 GMT
    ... is rapidly sinking into a Depression as unemployment shoots past 10 percent. We haven't seen ... record, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, Africa, according to his white grandmother who ... world, where Truth must be Truth! America's economy is now in a mess because of ...

  • New Report Studies Recent Trends in E-Commerce and Mobile Commerce 10 Nov 2009 14:30 GMT
    ... Communication Pty Ltd's new report "Global Digital Economy - E-Commerce & M-Commerce Trends & Statistics," to their ... mobile operators in developing countries such as Kenya, the Philippines and India. The revenues are ...

  • Akunyili identifies three policy directions to sustain Nigeria's telecom development 10 Nov 2009 16:32 GMT
    ... to that extent, positively impact on the economy. “The first area in which we have ... among others, as other developing countries like Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, India, Sri Lanka, are doing. ... local content in telecommunications. The search for employment opportunities means we must think out of ...

  • Why Ugandans work in Iraq 10 Nov 2009 12:33 GMT
    ... the market on the other side. "Originally Kenyans were not doing security work but today, ... "We are in the process of developing employment policies which will include a minimum wage." ... desperate to escape from the poverty and unemployment that define their lives in Uganda. With ...

  • Akunyili Identifies Three Policy Directions to Sustain Telecom Development 10 Nov 2009 21:12 GMT
    ... to that extent, positively impact on the economy. "The first area in which we have ... among others, as other developing countries like Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, India, Sri Lanka, are doing. ... local content in telecommunications. The search for employment opportunities means we must think out of ...


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