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Africa sets common currency goal by 2025

Africa sets common currency goal by 2025

Africa has revived talks of a common currency, with Finance ministers from the region optimistic the dream feasible in five to six years.Speaking at the International Monetary Fund …...

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Jubilee, Credit Bank enter deal targeting SMEs

Jubilee, Credit Bank enter deal targeting SMEs

Regional listed underwriter Jubilee Holdings Wednesday inked a partnership deal with Credit Bank that will see the firms create loan financing and insurance products that will be ta…...

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Oil export plan takes shape after Lamu berth reserved

Oil export plan takes shape after Lamu berth reserved

One of the first three berths of the Lamu port has been set aside to handle crude oil, officials have announced barely two weeks before Kenya’s second seaport launches its operatio…...

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Kenya to launch cervical cancer vaccine tomorrow

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is set to roll out a cervical cancer vaccine targeting 10-year-old girls starting tomorrow, in a move that will see the shot included in the national im…...

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One man’s mission to change lives of potato farmers

One man’s mission to change lives of potato farmers

Dominik Dieckmann is a man on a mission. He wants to change the lives of potato farmers in Nyandarua County through value addition.Mr Dieckmann, who is a German, is the brain behind…...

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Researchers in bid to save fish farming amid climate change

Researchers in bid to save fish farming amid climate change

Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector are burning the midnight oil researching on climate change-related issues that are affecting this sector.The research, which has been ongoing …...

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Tanzania: Coffee Processing Plants to Be Opened in Three Regions

Tanzania: Coffee Processing Plants to Be Opened in Three Regions

AGRICULTURAL Marketing Cooperative Societies (Amcos) plans to open three coffee processing factories in Shinyanga, Simiyu and Geita regions to support President John Magufulis ambit…...

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3,000 small-scale farmers benefit from Equity Bank agribusiness skills

3,000 small-scale farmers benefit from Equity Bank agribusiness skills

More than three thousand small-scale farmers in Ol Kalou Constituency, Nyandarua County, have benefitted from free agribusiness training offered by the Equity Bank.Speaking during t…...

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Next SGR phase to be launched as China cuts funding

Next SGR phase to be launched as China cuts funding

The government plans to launch an expensive railway line that ends in the middle of nowhere after the Chinese government pulled the plug on funding for the next phase.Transport Cabi…...

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FOOD: Dining with the stars at Legends

FOOD: Dining with the stars at Legends

At the entrance sits a piano, open for anyone to play. As you walk through the door, a poster of a smiling Sol Kerzner welcomes you in. Another piano is suspended from the strong wo…...

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