Kenya
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Telkom Kenya Undersea Cable Goes Live In Kenya -Telkom -
NAIROBI, Kenya -(Dow Jones)- The Telkom Kenya-operated undersea cable has gone live, the firm said in a statement late Friday. The Lower Indian Ocean Network submarine cable, or LION2, whose laying cost is over 5.7 billion Kenya ...
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Kenya strikes oil for first time -
President Mwai Kibaki says that more wells will be drilled to ascertain the commercial viability of the discoveryKenya announced its first
oil discovery on Monday, saying it was found in the northern part of the country where Africa-focused ...
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Kenya central banker weathers parliament, Twitter storm -
NAIROBI, March 20 (Reuters) - Kenya's central bank chief marched out of a hotel last month, barely pausing for questions as the markets buzzed with rumours a parliamentary committee was set to call for his removal over a year's-worth of market chaos.
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UPDATE 1-Kenya's Equity Bank 2011 pretax profit up 42 pct -
NAIROBI, March 8 (Reuters) - Equity Bank of Kenya posted a 42 percent rise in its pretax profit for 2011 to 12.83 billion shillings ($155 million), thanks to growth in its net interest income and a fall in bad debts provisions, its chief ...
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Kenya sells a quarter of 182-day t-bills -
NAIROBI, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Kenya sold about a quarter of 182-day Treasury bills at auction on Wednesday, the central bank said, and the weighted average yield rose to 18.576 percent from 18.445 percent.
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Kenya licenses FirstRand to open representative office -
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Kenya has licensed South African banking group FirstRand to open a representative office for marketing and liaison purposes, the east African nation's central bank said on Friday.
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From King's Road to Kenya: Vivienne Westwood's new fashion journey -
British designer's products part of Ethical Fashion Africa, which offers Nairobi's poor a better lifeIn a whitewashed building in Nairobi's industrial area, scores of women are sewing handbags for some of fashion's best-known labels. But as their machines ...
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Kenya cenbank sets new rules for repo market -
NAIROBI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Kenya's central bank said on Thursday it had set a new minimum
interest rate on reverse repo agreements and increased scrutiny of its lending to commercial banks in a fresh effort to stabilise the currency ...
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Barclays Kenya's nine-months profit up 26 pct -
NAIROBI, Nov 1 (Reuters) -
Barclays Bank of Kenya said on Tuesday its pretax profit increased 26 percent to 8.87 billion shillings ($90 mln) during the nine months ended September, driven higher by the benefits of a cost-cutting ...
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Kenyan herders reap dividends from livestock insurance -
Pastoralists whose herds have been decimated by drought receive first payments under innovative new schemeAbout 650 herders in the vast arid area of Marsabit in northern Kenya last week received the first insurance payouts from an unusual ...
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Kenya raises local borrowing limit - report -
NAIROBI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Kenya's Finance Ministry has raised its domestic borrowing limit to 70 percent of total public debt to shield the economy from turbulence in foreign debt markets, the Business Daily reported on Monday.
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Kenya to float tender for pipeline in December -
NAIROBI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Kenya plans to issue a tender in December to build a $300 million fuel pipeline to replace an older one to meet rising demand for commodities in the region, a top government official said on Tuesday.
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Kenya cbank raises discount window rate to 15.68 pct -
NAIROBI, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Kenya's central bank raised on Wednesday its discount window rate to 15.68 percent from 13.87 percent a day earlier, a posting on its website showed, on the back of its revised overnight lending rules last week.
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