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- Early last month, rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Kenya's sovereign rating and warned further downward revision was on the cards. The natural reaction by politicians should have been to safeguard the national rating and shield the public against expensive external borrowing - made even worse by the depreciation of the shilling. |
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- "THE public stands warned! Bank of Uganda will only protect the money placed in institutions, which it supervises. Stand warned." |
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- A peculiarly erratic local currency exchange rate over the past one week has aroused suspicion that speculators could be driving the foreign exchange market and renewed calls for Central Bank to intervene to restore stability. |
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- Kenya will this year affirm its position as the next frontier for oil search with the award of 20 new exploration licences, industry insiders said. |
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- Over the past few months, telecommunications services consumers have had to reckon with an unsual development in their relations with the service providers. Intrusion into the use of their phones in a manner that borders on breach of privacy. |
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- Keen watchers of the Kenya financial scene will have noticed the wild swings in the shilling's exchange rate. Yesterday, forex dealers had to suspend trading as the shilling gained to 68 with no fundamentals to back the appreciation. |
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- Taxpayers are likely to benefit from a rate cut as soon as a resolution of the political impasse is reached under an economic revival package being discussed between the Government and a key lender. |
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- As Botswana experiences recurring power shortages like most southern African countries, demand for generators has shot up leading to a possible price hike, hardware stores confirmed yesterday. |
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- Government ordered all departments not to give any advertisements to private newspapers that are critical of the establishment to push them out of the market, a controversial journalist and newspaper owner has alleged. |
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- The Rwanda OTC (Over The Counter) market was launched this morning in the city of Kigali. The occasion was officiated by Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda who officially launched the first trading operations in Rwanda's capital market. |
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- THE energy crisis is not seen as an immediate threat to SA's investment-grade credit rating, but could become an issue if electricity outages sharply curb economic growth. |
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- A marketing body has been formed to help sell locally-produced specialty coffee in America. |
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- George Kose, 30, a graduate of Moi University, Eldoret, lost his job at one of the leading firms in Nairobi just days after the election results were announced on 30 December 2007. |
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- A Johannesburg-based Delta Mining Consolidated (DMC) company has won the bid to develop the Western Cluster Iron Ore Deposit in Liberia. |
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- South Africa imported over 15 percent more electricity from other countries in 2007, than it had in 2006, according to figures released on Thursday. |
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- Indebted South Africans can breathe easier for the next two months, as the repo rate remained stable at 11 percent. |
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- THE government has apparently bowed to the demands of Air Zimbabwe engineers for their salaries to be paid in foreign currency. |
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- BANKING and other key economic activities have been crippled by the resurgence of zeros on the country's beleaguered currency, from which the central bank lopped off three zeros in August 2006. |
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- THE Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia (BEN Namibia) was started in 2005 to provide bicycles for HIV-AIDS homebased care volunteers who often need to cover long distances in their areas. |
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- Conscious that trade issues had become a major source of friction between African countries and their former colonial overlords, the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso extended an olive branch in December. |
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- a t ajout par Fitzz le 31 jan 2008 21:00 |
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- a t mis jour par Arcadia le 31 jan 2008 20:52 |
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- a t ajout par Fitzz le 31 jan 2008 20:43 |
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- a t mis jour par baloo313 le 31 jan 2008 20:19 |
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- a t mis jour par cyril54 le 31 jan 2008 20:05 |
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- a t modifi par 6klid le 31 jan 2008 19:28 |
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