Tag: Kenya
Bee symposium broaches barcodes on bugs
Bee experts are abuzz at York University this week, discussing a plan to put barcodes on bees for targeting crop pollination."International bee experts have converged on Toronto to develop a plan to catalogue all...
Chef wants to outlaw out-of-season vegetables
Gordon Ramsay has an interesting idea."Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should be fined if they serve out-of-season fruit and vegetables."I'd also like to see floggings instituted for cooking a...
UN official killed in Kenya
A UN official has been killed in nothern Kenya. This is the first killing of a UN official in that area. "Silence Shirara, a Zimbabwe national, was the head of the WFP office in Lokichoggio town, about 650km north...
How Would a Portfolio Investing Solely in African...
"I’ve been preoccupied with risk these days. Or risk mitigation to be exact. I’m tired of watching my TD Ameritrade account get whipsawed. It’s got me thinking. Would a portfolio invested solely in African markets be a tragedy waiting to happen? The chart below...
Tourism crash in Kenya threatens their big cats
Sadly, the big cats living in Kenya's Maasai Mara game reserve are being threatened by a crash in Kenya's tourism revenue, as the reserve can no longer sustain a safe passage clause fo the endangered felines."The...
Zimbabwe Could Get Smacked Down With UN Sanctions
According to Jendayi Frazer, the United States’ top diplomat for Africa, nothing has changed in Zimbabwe so far. Recently, Frazer said that Robert Mugabe, the incumbent is trying to steal the election away. She also added that the opposition party known as the Movement...
Odinga: Africa Should Force Mugabe Out, Era of Di...
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga [who is also the Cousin of the Candidate for the Democratic Party Nomination for President of the United States Barack Obama] has declared that "the era of dictators is over" and that "Africa should act with speed and even force" to resolve...
Stock Trading - An Overview
"Introduction So many people have asked me, “What do I need to do to trade stocks in Kenya or here in the United States.” While I do not claim to be the resident expert, I have been trading long enough to narrow this answer to four main phases: READ, PLAN, FUND, TRADE....
Kenyan Runner Wins Fourth Boston Marathon
Defending Champ Robert Cheruiyot, from Kenya, won the Boston Marathon today with an official time of two hours, seven minutes and 46 seconds. Once a poverty-stricken youth who had to work at a friend's barbershop to...
Odinga sworn in as Kenyan premier
Raila Odinga has officialy became the premier of Kenya. This was disclosed at the minister sworning ceremony held in Kenya. The BBC article has the detailed story of this phenominal move in Kenya."Kenya's opposition...
Foreign Aid Workers Kidnapped in Somalia
"MOGADISHU, April 1: A Briton and a Kenyan initially identified as UN aid workers were kidnapped by armed men on Tuesday in southern Somalia in the latest in a string of attacks targeting humanitarian operations. Local elders said gunmen opened fire during the attack and one...
UN workers 'kidnapped in Somalia'
Two UN workers, a Briton and a Kenyan, working in Somalia were kidnapped at gunpoint earlier today by unknown gunmen. The reason behind the attack is not yet known."They were doing work for the UN Food and...
Somalia sinks into greater chaos as Islamist insu...
The Transnational Government of Somalia is on the verge of collapse. If they don't receive international aid soon, the govenrment is going to crumble, just like the 13 before it. Somalia has not seen peace in many...
IRAN & A Weapon Of Mass Destruction :: MAXINE
"It’s true and can be mentioned in the same breath. The fields in IRAN are producing a weapon of mass destruction and it is not what you think.
This weapon of mass destruction is aimed directly at IRAN itself and...
Kenya: Government 'Clarification' Raises Fears De...
After weeks of tricky negotiations and riots and protests that claimed over 1,000 lives in racially-fuelled violence, Kenya finally looked poised to form a government between the two parties.However, after the deal was signed, the structure for the new government was...
