The Kenyan government has said that two Indian telecommunications firms had shown interest in bidding for the second national telecom operator (SNO) licence.
Africa must develop its rural towns and give local authorities more power in order to ease a strain on cities which are creaking under heavy growth, officials and international planners said on Monday.
Growing coffee for 20 years has not lifted 60-year-old Maina Kimondo from poverty.So fine talk of a new marketing system that could boost earnings fails to raise a spark in his eye.
Teach a Kenyan cattle herder how to fish and you'll feed him for life. That was at least what Norway's development agency believed in the 1980s, when it built a fish-processing factory now abandoned and decaying on the shores of Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya.