Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday opened the second phase of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project – Kenya’s largest infrastructure project since independence. The US$1.5 billion railway, funded and built by Chinese companies, comprises a stretch of track running from capital city Nairobi to the Rift Valley...
A strong performance by the agricultural industry helped Kenya’s economy expand by 6.3% last year, according to latest figures from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). Adequate rainfall over the course of the wet season boosted the sector, a mainstay of the Kenyan economy, following...
The President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta has revealed a plan to reach 100% clean energy sufficiency by 2020, as part of the East African nation’s pledge to address climate change. Speaking at a roundtable discussion on climate change policies at the Paris Peace Forum, Kenyatta said that...