London, March 21, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya’s Nairobi City has waived building approval fees for affordable housing projects as a move to attract more investors into the city as it gears to achieve President Uhuru’s Big 4 Agenda on affordable housing. Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko said the move by his administration will pave way for the county ...

London, March 20, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Police authorities in Kenya are on Tuesday celebrating the completion of the the first step of digitization of police operations including biometric registration With the biometric registration, the new record shows Kenya has 101,288 policemen and women, according State House report Spokesperson Kanze Dena said a report on the exercise, as ...

London, March 14, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya has signed a financing deal with France for a light rail system between the capital Nairobi and the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). This was announced on Wednesday after a meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta. “We are launching a project for the refurbishment of the ...

London, March 5, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A woman who claimed to be a Nigerian has been arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Sunday after she was found with packets of suspected narcotics. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) reported the arrest via Twitter on Monday, saying Princess Okoye as she claimed to be ...

London, March 4, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Four Americans and their Kenyan pilot, Captain Mario Magonga, were killed when their helicopter crashed on a remote island in Lake Turkana in a national park in northwest Kenya, police said on Monday. The aircraft came down in Central Island National Park at around 8 p.m. on Sunday, police said, killing ...

London, March 1, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya is considering introducing digital innovation-mobile-based pension schemes to boost the country’s retirement coverage, the pensions regulator said on Friday. Nzomo Mutuku, CEO of Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA), told a pension forum in Nairobi that the legal and regulatory framework has already been developed to support digital pensions schemes. “We are ...

London, Feb. 26, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya has resorted to the use of earth observation technology in order to enhance monitoring of degraded forests, an official said on Tuesday. Jamleck Ndambiri, project manager at the Kenya Forest Service (KFS), said that earth observation technology will help protect and restore tropical forests through better monitoring. “With the help ...

London, Feb. 25, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A diplomatic row is brewing between Kenya and Iran over allegation that the Iranian ambassador to Kenya has been making secret and illegal move to free two Iranian nationals currently in police custody in Kenya standing trial on terror charges The EastAfrican reports that on Friday, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation ...

London, Feb. 21, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The government of Kenya hast received $26bn investment pledges towards the country’s low-cost housing plan. This is according to Charles Hinga, the Housing Principal Secretary. Affordable housing scheme is a key component of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s big 4 agenda, Others are manufacturing, food security and universal health care. The affordable housing scheme ...

London, Feb. 18, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya is seeking $1 billion through a syndicated loan over the next one month, amid warnings to the government to go slow on contracting new debt and pressure rising to settle credit maturing in the first half of the year. The new debt, expected from at least three commercial lenders is ...