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(SomaliNet) The US Department of Commerce has revealed that Last year's trade volume between Kenya and the United States hit Sh77.8 billion. The Standard reports.
Some trade surplus of Sh20.5 billion (US285 million) however favoured the US. Mean while, Exports to US stood at
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(SomaliNet) Some 20 Somalis have been intercepted by a human trafficking police unit in Wajir as they were being transported to Nairobi bringing the number of foreigners arrested in the district in the last two months to 300.
The unit, which comprises of anti-terror police
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(SomaliNet) The Secretary General of Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) said Tuesday that some Twenty-five water trucks donated to the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) by its Norwegian counterparts have not been cleared from the port of Mombasa.
Mr. Abbas Gulleid KRCS Secretary General
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Some 3,000 Kenyans have been forced to flee their homes that have been submerged in floodwater following heavy rainfall that caused a river in Kenya's coastal district of Malindi to breach its banks. A government official said Wednesday. IRIN
"Crops along the river banks were wa
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(SomaliNet) Kenya is not among the second group of 11 countries that will enjoy debt relief having been excluded in the new list compiled by a joint committee of the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Kenya has once again failed to be considered for debt relief unde
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(SomaliNet) With the request of Sudan government, a team of United Nations bird flu experts arrived in the country on Wednesday to investigate a suspected human bird flu case. UN News Service reported.
Sudan will be the second country in Africa to report human infection with the
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(SomaliNet) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday that some 30,000 people have been displaced by a recent fighting in the mountain ranges of Jebel Marra in central Darfur. IRIN reported Wednesday.
ICRC recently regained access to parts of the region fo
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(SomaliNet) In a bid to alleviate the effects of prolonged drought in Ethiopia, The United has pledged an additional US $25 million in humanitarian, IRIN reports.
US Agency for International Development (USAID) assistant administrator, Michael Hess, said Thursday that the additio
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(SomaliNet) A total of $65 million loan has been extended to Ethiopia by Export and Import Bank of India to finance an energy transmission and distribution project undertaken by an Indian company. The Economic Times reported Friday.
According to a release from Exim Bank of India,
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(SomaliNet) Action Aid warned Friday that some 3.5 million people face the threat of starvation as Kenya’s food crisis worsens, despite recent rains.
Many Roads are water logged preventing Aid trucks passage. Mean while, there have been outbreaks of disease and many more
