Kenya

LIBERALIZATION ON FAST TRACK?

Controls on oil product prices could be lifted sooner than in mid-1994, the date that was given in June when [...]

REGIONAL EARTH SCIENCES PROJECT

The European Development Fund (EDF) has approved a 4.95 million Ecu ($5.8 million) grant for the Eastern & Southern African [...]

ESSO PULLS OUT

Esso is reportedly close to reaching an agreement in negotiations for the sale of the distribution affiliate Esso Tanzania to [...]

ENERGY PROJECT ON STANDBY

A meeting of the consultative group of donor countries for Kenya in Paris on Nov. 23-23 failed to clear up [...]

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AID RESUMES... ON CERTAIN TERMS

The World Bank's Consultative Group on Kenya, which met in Paris on November 22 and 23, has decided to resume aid for Kenya's balance of payments (US$170 million for 1994 on total commitments of $850 million, to which must be [.

STATE OF TRADE WITH EC

Although the general trade tendency for exports from member-states of the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) agreement to the European Community has been [...]

ESSO HANDS OVER

The petroleum group Esso is on the point of finding a buyer for its petroleum products distribution network in East [...]

KOIGI WA WAMWERE

An ardent defender of the "oppressed poor" facing the "entrenched rich" and a radical Kikuyu politician from the Nakuru region, [...]

RELIGIOUS MOBILISATION

The Kenyan government reacted vigorously following the publication by a number of Roman Catholic bishops in Kenya of a pastoral [...]

INTERNATIONAL EAGLE EYES

The Policy Framework Paper negotiated between the Kenyan government and the International Monetary Fund, which is due to be submitted [...]

SIMEON NYACHAE

The agriculture and livestock minister will host the lunch for [...]

State Bank of India and African Development Bank hope to [...]

LOANS FROM ADB

The African Development Bank (ADB) approved four financial packages for Uganda during the meeting held at the end of October. [...]

KIKUYU LEADERS ARRESTED

In one week, Kenyan police carried out a series of swoops and arrested more than a dozen civilian and military [...]

THE NEXT LOT OF INTERNATIONAL LOANS

Apart from Mauritius (ION N° 596), several other Indian Ocean and East African countries are likely to see credits granted [...]

In a pastoral letter published last week, eighteen Roman Catholic [...]

HIROYUKI HINO

The IMF assistant director has just completed a two-week mission [...]

ADB TO BACK THREE PROJECTS

The African Development Bank (ADB) group is poised to co-finance three electricity schemes in the East African countries of Tanzania, [...]

ELDORET-UGANDA PIPELINE PROJECT

The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is planning to extend the Eldoret branch of the new oil products pipeline to Uganda. [...]