Kenyan police fought hundreds of protesters in trouble spots across the country on Wednesday, killing two as the opposition defied a ban on rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 16, 2008
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki offered to talk to political rivals on Thursday as corpses lay in the street and smoke rose from burning slums after a day of battles between police and anti-government protesters.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 03, 2008
President Mwai Kibaki's government accused rival Raila Odinga's party of unleashing genocide in Kenya on Wednesday as the death toll from tribal violence over a disputed election passed 300.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 02, 2008
A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election soared to nearly 200.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 01, 2008
Reliance Industries (RIL), India's most valuable firm in terms of market capitalisation and owner of world's third largest refinery, will be setting aside up to $15 billion for making world-scale acquisitions in the energy sector besides investing more than $12 billion for development of gas exploration off the country's east coast.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 12, 2007
The German telecommunications supplier Ericsson has announced its participation in the Millennium village project to provide connectivity in Africa especially in rural areas.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 24, 2007
They won the prize for their part in galvanizing international action against global warming before it 'moves beyond man's control'.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 12, 2007
In a world where e-mails follow people on vacation, the need for true chill-out travel has never been higher, sparking a boom in hotels and resorts dedicated to the quiet, and slow, life.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 08, 2007
Willis Ochieng, 10, scavenges through smoking refuse piled as high as a house at one of Africa's biggest rubbish mountains, his friends sitting nearby sucking on dirty plastic bottles of noxious yellow glue.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2007
Developing and industrialized countries are continously working hard through negotiations, in Doha, to reach a new International Trade Agreement (ITA). However, there is increasing recognition that even if there was free trade between nations, many countries
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 24, 2007
Indian outsourcing companies are shifting some of their operations to China, the Philippines, Vietnam and Kenya in a bid to stay competitive as higher wages, expensive property prices and a rising rupee eat into profits.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 18, 2007
Fueled by last year's Nobel Prize for a man nicknamed banker to the poor, microlending to small businesses in the world's poorest countries is booming as individuals discover they can be their own mini World Bank.c
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 14, 2007
They've become as much a symbol of Africa's landscape as the stereotypical lions and plains
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 20, 2007
In a continent where men still dominate, Esther Passaris is an anomaly impossible to ignore -- and anyone who tries is likely to get an earful.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 01, 2007
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, or Comesa, agreed to eliminate non-tariff barriers and end conflicts that weaken trade within the 21-member grouping, a statement issued at the close of a two-day summit of member countries said Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 20, 2006
Environment ministers from over 180 nations gathered on Friday in Nairobi to mark the end of a two-week UN climate summit. Delegates agreed to review the Kyoto Protocol in 2008 in order to expand the fight against global warming beyond 2012.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 18, 2006
Kenya Airways will not launch scheduled flights to Congo Brazzaville tomorrow as earlier announced.Unresolved issues in negotiations on air traffic rights forced the last-minute cancellation.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2006
Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai said late on Saturday that her 2004 peace prize has helped to change the world's view on the environment.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2006
The Japanese Olympic Commission (JOC) will appoint Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara as the director-general of Tokyo Olympic Bidding Committee for the 2016 Summer Games, the commission said on Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 29, 2006
President Mobutu Sese Seko was said to have sipped pink champagne daily, hired Concorde to fly his family to New York to shop and bought numerous friends in high places, much of it with the help of foreign aid.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 20, 2006
The East African Community member states and Rwanda have sought a loan from World Bank, under which the regional revenue authorities have designed sophisticated methods to boost revenue.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 20, 2006
Tanga Cement Company, says its future expansion will be expensive because of the extended power rationing and growing competition from imports from Uganda and Kenya.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 20, 2006
