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NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) – China-funded Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) recently launched a joint speed test in which the train departed from Kenya’s Nairobi South to Emali Station, covering around 200 kilometers. The test comes just in time before the passenger train’s commission on June 1. The passenger train passed by the Athi River Station at the speed of 120 kilometers per hour (kph) which will also be its highest speed once the railway is […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) – A China-funded railway connecting the Kenyan capital with a key port brings a wide range of benefits to the country, said Kenya’s railway chief during a recent interview with China Global Television Network. The Mombasa-Nairobi railway will soon be in service. It will help cut the travel time of a 400-kilometer distance from about six hours to four. Atanas K. Maina, Managing Director of Kenya Railways, said the railway will help […]
MACHAKOS COUNTY, Kenya (Reuters) — Greenpark, a residential estate located about 20 kilometers south of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is one of a handful of housing developments promoting solar powered homes in the country. Founded in 2006 the 150-acre estate has 400 units all fitted with solar panels for water heating. Developers are currently working on the fifth phase of the scheme. The panels are made locally and fitted by Steelstone Kenya, which has been contracted […]
by Tristan MCCONNELL Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China and published Wednesday by the conservation group Save the Elephants. At its peak in 2014 the estimated wholesale price for raw ivory stood at $2,100 (1,900 euros) per kilogram on the Chinese black market, but by early 2017 the price had fallen to $730 per kilogram, […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) — Aviators flying vintage planes the length of Africa were in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Sunday (November 27), a day after one aircraft had to make a forced landing that wrecked the plane although the crew escaped without injury. The Vintage Air Rally includes biplanes built in the 1920s and 1930s which have flown from Europe, past Egypt’s pyramids and through Sudan and Ethiopia, where they were briefly detained because […]
An elephant wearing a fitted electronic collar begins to wake up as its tranquilizer is reversed by vets at the Amboseli National Park on November 2, 2016. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is collaring two young male elephants from the Amboseli region to better understand their migration routes. As Kenya’s population increases dramatically every year more land traditionally used by elephants as routes is being populated and developed and elephants have been impacted. […]
KENYA, Africa (AFP) — Dozens of Maasai warriors have undergone a dramatic life-change in the last decade, foregoing their ancestral role as lion-hunters to become guardians. It’s part of a conservation scheme in southern Kenya, that also aims to help their community. https://youtu.be/A5trGd9G-iA
JULY 24 (Reuters) — Kenya’s interior minister, Joseph Nkaissery, demanded on Thursday (July 23) an apology from CNN for referring to Kenya as “hotbed of terror” as it reports from there ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit on Friday (July 24). In a news conference in the capital Nairobi, Nkaissery said the CNN was inaccurate and “based on lies”. “Our attention has been drawn to a media report by CNN earlier today seeking to […]
Six people were confirmed dead and nine others were critically injured in an explosion in Nairobi, Kenya.
