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Increased payroll taxes are one element of a bid in Kenya to keep the government running and pay off the country’s foreign creditors. The Toi Market in Nairobi.Credit...Brian Otieno for The New ...
MATHARE, Kenya — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother ...
Kenya's President William Ruto narrowly avoided injury on Sunday when a shoe was hurled at him during a public rally in Kehancha, Migori County. The incident, captured on video, occurred as the ...
On Sunday at the rally in Migori county in western Kenya, Ruto blocked the flying footwear with his arm and did not appear to be injured, according to three videos. “We have said we are reducing ...
Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya were given a choice of paying a fine of $7,700 or serving 12 months in prison — the minimum penalty for the offense — for violating ...
Using this index, Kenya’s ratio is only 13.8 per 10,000 population, according to the Human Resources for Health policy brief by the Ministry of Health. •Lab technicians and technologists ...
NAIROBI, May 7 (Reuters) - Kenya's government will not impose new taxes or increase existing ones in this year's budget proposals, the finance minister said, after deadly protests broke out last ...
The rhinos accounted for a 31 per cent increase during the period, primarily due to reduced poaching and increased conservation efforts. Among the wildlife population that remained stable were ...
Kenya will tap a Sh3.4 billion loan from Israel amid plans for Tel Aviv to part-fund the acquisition of a high-tech missile defence system to boost Kenya’s ability to ward off security threats ...
Kenya will pay a consortium of French contractors Sh6.2 billion for the termination of the Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Toll Road, adding to the taxpayers’ burden of paying for cancelled projects ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya were given a choice of paying a fine of $7,700 or serving 12 months in prison — the minimum penalty for the offense ...