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Armed with a Sh500 million war chest in funds, partly raised through a private placement, the Kenya School of Professional Studies is set to expand its facilities after getting the green light to operate as a private university.
Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities. Other versions of the pages,
Diesmal habe ich längere Zeit darüber grübeln müssen, welchen Titel ich am besten über diesen Beitrag stellen soll. Werde ich präziser, wird der Titel viel zu lang und ich kann es mir eigentlich sparen dann noch etwas zum Inhalt des Buches zu erzählen. Also habe ich es diesmal einfach bei einer Kernaussage belassen, die zwar zutrifft, aber relativ wenig über den eigentlichen Inhalt aussagt. Tatsächlich vereint das Buch zwei verschiedene Bücher bzw. zwei ozeitlich sehr, sehr lange auseinanderliegende Handlungsstränge, die Sibylle Knaus, Professorin für Text und Dramaturgie an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, hier phantasievoll und unterhaltsam miteinander verknüpft.
Våldet i Kenyas val för fem år sedan krävde över 1 100 dödsoffer och observatörer har varnat för en upprepning. Stämningen på valdagen är "spänd men förväntansfull", säger Anders Sjögren, forskare i statsvetenskap vid Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, som befinner sig i Nairobi. - Jag bevakade bland annat när premiärministern röstade. Det var mycket folk ute men läget var lugnt och disciplinerat, säger Anders Sjögren till TT.
The Tanzania Commission for Universities, or TCU, has finally acted against a branch campus of Uganda’s Kampala International University, ordering the Dar es Salaam-based institution to stop offering masters and doctoral courses.
10 MAY 2013 - JESSICA HATCHER, IAN COBAIN The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency.
The leaked files include material from the 2007 General Election and its violent aftermath. They are much-awaited in some quarters of the Kenyan political sector, especially with regard to the ongoing build-up to the cases at The Hague by International Cr
Concerned that a growing number of students are enrolling in poor-quality private universities and diploma mills, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are working together to develop more stringent...
Concerned that a growing number of students are enrolling in poor-quality private universities and diploma mills, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are working together to develop more stringent oversight of their higher-education systems.
However, the Kenya Association of Private Universities (Kapu) expressed concerns that by implementing the unit costing in public universities, fees charged in their institutions would be affected because of the forces of a free-market.
– Det finns en stor potential för att minska risken för konflikter som är baserade på tillgången till vatten, det säger UNESCO:s biträdande chef för vetenskap, Gretchen Kalonji. – Om en månad hoppas vi kunna få tillgång till vattnet och första prioritet är invånarna i regionen, säger miljöminister Judi Wakhungu. Enligt UNESCO saknar idag omkring 17 av Kenyas 41 miljoner invånare tillgång till rent dricksvatten.
Kenya has enacted higher education reforms aimed at streamlining and improving the management of university affairs. The Universities Act 2012, finally signed into law by President Mwai Kibaki this month, introduces far-reaching changes.
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UPI Oct 20: "Africa's exports of oil to the United States, largely from Nigeria and the dictator state of Equatorial Guinea, are roughly equal to those of the Middle East." "A major oil strike was made around Lake Albert in western Uganda in 2006, and geologists say it contains at least 2 billion barrels.Only 25 percent of the region, which includes the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has so far been explored, and some reports say there could be up to 6 billion barrels there.Uganda expects to start producing an initial 200,000 barrels per day in early 2012." Makerere prof Naimah Achim Bucha: "The truth is that Africom is there for the militarization of Africa and for the other purpose of elbowing out all U.S. competitors from the continent, China and Russia included."(
allAfrica.com: "Water and Irrigation Minister Charity Ngilu said the government will drill 250 water boreholes across the country, 50 of which will be in Nairobi, to address the acute water shortage. Already 15 boreholes have been drilled in the capital w
Nearly 600 colleges are registered to operate in Kenya, but only 10 have been accredited to offer programmes on behalf of foreign universities, higher education regulators have said.
The protest in Nairobi on 15 January by a handful of Muslim youth, in which four people were killed, revealed a profound radicalisation and inter-faith resentment among Nairobi’s Muslims. Analysis by John Onyando, 20 January 2010
Mount Kenya University deputy vice chancellor Evans Kerosi said the move will increase the number of students in private universities to be admitted through a joint admission board.
Surging demand for higher education ought to have given Kenya a good reason to clean up its universities. But as the number of private and public universities has grown over the past seven years, from 17 to 24 private and five to seven public institutions, so have concerns over the quality of learning.
The British government will on Thursday agree an historic compensation payment to victims of one of the darkest episodes of the country's imperial past and express its "sincere regret" for the torture inflicted upon thousands of people imprisoned during Kenya's Mau Mau insurgency. bildtext: Captured Mau Mau fighters in Kenya awaiting trial in 1954. Photograph: George Rodger/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images In a statement to MPs, William Hague, foreign secretary, is expected to announce payments of £2,600 each to more than 5,000 survivors of the vast network of prison camps that the British authorities established across its colony during the bloody 1950s conflict: a total of about £13.9m.
CODESRIA Kenya extracts soda ash, limestone, gold, cement and gemstones but its resources are not exploited on a scale comparable to neighbouring Tanzania, Uganda or the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, the recent discovery of commercially viable oil reserves in Turkana [http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/...], the impending arrival of a new port and oil refinery on the island of Lamu, enormous rare earth and titanium deposits found in Kwale [http://allafrica.com/stories/201307...], and discoveries of gold in Narok and Migori [http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/...] have caught the eye of new investors, hungry to turn a handsome profit from the country’s untapped resources.
J. Kiplang'at, and D. Ocholla. South African Journal of Library & Information Science, 71 (3):
234-246(December 2005)M3: Article; Accession Number: 20486948; Kiplang'at, Joseph 1; Email Address: jkngetich@yahoo.co.uk Ocholla, Dennis N. 2; Email Address: docholla@pan.uzulu.ac.za; Affiliation: 1: Moi University, School of Information Sciences Department of Library , Records Management and Information Studies, P.O. Box 3900, Eldoret, Kenya 2: University of Zululand Department of Library and Information Science P.O. Private Bag ×1001, Kwadlangezwa 3886, South Africa; Source Info: 2005, Vol. 71 Issue 3, p234; Subject Term: DIFFUSION; Subject Term: INFORMATION technology; Subject Term: AGRICULTURAL informatics; Subject Term: RURAL development; Subject Term: SURVEYS; Subject Term: AGRICULTURE -- Research; Subject Term: FARMERS; Subject Term: ELECTRONIC information resources; Subject Term: KENYA; NAICS/Industry Codes: 541712 Reseach and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology); NAICS/Industry Codes: 925120 Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development; Number of Pages: 13p; Illustrations: 2 charts; Document Type: Article.