London, May 14, 2019 (AltAfrica)-OVO Foundation is expanding its energy access project in Kenya, electrifying over 300 schools and health clinics in the hardest-to-reach parts of Kenya. Around the world 1.1bn people do not have access to electricity, including 600m in sub-Saharan Africa. Through Project Jua, OVO Foundation is supporting the Kenyan Government’s overall electrification ...

London, May 14, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi said on Monday that the Nigerian government did not mortgage any property to secure infrastructural loans from China. Amaechi made the clarification at the 6th Annual East African Transport Infrastructure conference held in Nairobi, Kenya. According to Amaechi, Nigeria did not offer China any ...

London, May 13,2019 (AltAfrica)-American technology giant Microsoft Corporation has unveiled plans to set up an African technology development centre in Kenya, Gaming Vice President Phil Spencer said on Monday. Spencer was speaking at a meeting hosted by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, attended by top executives of Microsoft including Mike Fortin, the Corporate ...

London, May 11, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A Kenyan court has jailed a British national believed to be part of an extremist cell to four years in prison for possession of bomb-making material. Delivering the sentence in a Mombasa court, chief magistrate Evans Makori said Thursday he considered that Jermaine Grant had been in prison since his arrest ...

London, May 9, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya will spend $210 million on linking and upgrading older tracks with its new standard-gauge railway as it abandons a plan to extend the Chinese-funded project to Uganda’s border that would have created a faster export route to the Indian Ocean for landlocked neighbors. Of the sum, $60 million will fund ...

London, May 7, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The World Bank has approved a $250 million loan to go towards Kenya’s affordable housing plan, whose implementation has faltered after a court issued an injunction against the imposition of a 1.5 per cent housing development levy on workers’ salaries. The government has focused on the construction of affordable houses as ...

London, May 7, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The extended ban on logging in government forests by Kenyan authorities has triggered a 42,000 tonne increase in cooking gas usage as imports rose to an all-time high of 240,484 tonnes valued at Sh15 billion. The 21 percent increase was further informed by the government’s decision to increase kerosene retail prices ...

London, May 6, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya has suspended the establishment of new public universities on the premise that the country already has adequate institutions of higher learning. Cabinet Secretary for education, Professor George Magoha made the announcement in the capital, Nairobi, during a forum on university education. “I have received requests to increase the number of ...

London, May 4, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Toshiba Corporation has announced the establishment of its new branch office in Nairobi, Kenya under Toshiba Africa (Pty) Ltd, the company’s main subsidiary based in South Africa. Toshiba celebrated this important occasion with an opening ceremony graced by the Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Energy of Kenya, Hon. Charles Keter, and ...

London, April 25, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Kenya has announced plans to construct a new port in the lakeside city of Kisumu county at a cost of $140m as part of the joint standard gauge railway project. The development comes in the face of underutilization of the Kisumu port for years despite its immense potential and strategic positioning ...