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Meru MPs do their own thing

Eight Meru MPs are rejecting calls from President Mwai Kibaki to rally behind the PNU banner to form a single party representing the central province.

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2008

David Karuri

The son of the architect Lee Karuri, who is close to President Mwai Kibaki, has just been appointed to an [...]

Subscribers only 26.09.2008

Nairobi

The wife of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, is being [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.09.2008

TPF-Utilities

After signing a contract in October 2007 with KenGen to [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.09.2008

First Acreage for Swiss Oil

The firm Swiss Oil has just been awarded its first two blocks in Kenya and is keen on quickly building up a portfolio in Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2008

Kengen

The Kenya Electricity Generating Co (KenGen) has awarded the construction [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2008

A former minister in property

The former Minister for Finance, Amos Kimunya, has just discreetly acquired a building owned by the State that should have been sold by public tender.

Subscribers only Politics 12.09.2008

A new company for John Michuki

The acting minister of finance and his son have branched out into a new business activity.

Subscribers only Politics 12.09.2008

Ecobank eyes a stockbroker

Ecobank, a pan-African bank controlled by Nigerian interests and the Saudi Prince Walid (via the Kingdom fund) which recently penetrated [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.09.2008

Uhuru Kenyatta takes on the PNU in Kenya

The Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of Kanu could leave [...]

Subscribers only 12.09.2008

Acacia Fund

The Swedfund depending on the Swedish government has just purchased [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.09.2008

Blue-Shield Insurance

The Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, has just acquired [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.09.2008

First signs of discord

The first signs of instability have made their appearance in the grand government coalition in Kenya with the recriminations made [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.08.2008

A Kikuyu party in the Rift Valley

President Mwai Kibaki’s efforts to unify the Kikuyu under the banner of a single party before he leaves power in 2012 are increasingly compromised.

Subscribers only Politics 29.08.2008

City Hoppa’s new strategy

The Nairobi bus company is turning towards transporting tourists as a way of making ends meet.

Subscribers only Business 29.08.2008

Ahmed Nassir Abdullahi

This lawyer, an advisor to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) and partisan of President Mwai Kibaki, has had the wind [...]

Subscribers only 29.08.2008

Foreign trawlers should be able to land in Kenya

As from 1 September, following a decision made by the [...]

Subscribers only 29.08.2008

Jinchuan Moves into Kwale Mineral Sands

Suspended since 2006 because of force majeure, the project to mine the mineral sands at Kwale could now finally be [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.08.2008

Martha Karua increasingly isolated

A group of MPs and businessmen from the Central Province that considers Uhuru Kenyatta to be the best placed person [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.07.2008

En route for Kigali

A group of Kenyan front line entrepreneurs has formed an investment company to do business with Rwanda in various sectors of activity.