Boycott maize, it is a revolutionary act, Part III.
Released on the eve of Kenya's independence, H611, would have a lower seed cost than conventional hybrids and would yield 40 percent more.
Boycott maize, it is a revolutionary act Part II.
The trafficking grid crisscrossed these vast areas losing idle power over homes that relied on the ancient art of igniting fires and market women huddled over cyclops eyes of pay-go-solar solutions.
Boycott maize, it is a revolutionary act Part I.
Kenyans would soon realize that maize could not be produced profitably. It would require constant funding of research controlled by foreigners and annual subsidies of market protectionist voodoo.
President Ruto hikes cost of all government services
The Move is in line with IMF and World Bank push to raise revenues over and above tax increases targeting service fees that had not been reviewed for years.
Selling an economy for trinkets Part III
A disaster unfolding in Kenya where the government is shooting at teenagers, pushed to the streets to resist attempts by the IMF to extract rent for bondholders at the expense of healthcare, education and basic cost of food.
Selling an economy for trinkets Part II
Before 2008, only South Africa and Seychelles had issued Eurobonds but over the next decade, 21 sub-Saharan African countries including Kenya had had more than one-dollar loan
Selling an economy for trinkets Part I
The IMF in a bid to direct money printed in Western capitals to Africa to compensate for the zero interest rates created a debt bubble which now threatens to destroy East Africa’s largest economy.
Treasury, CBK agree on reducing number of Kenyan banks
The consensus to force bank mergers also comes at a time Kenyan bank, especially small ones are facing vulnerabilities from higher interest rates for longer with a record number of lenders tapping into the regulators emergency liquidity.
Kenya commits to IGAD plan to end use of poison against locusts
Banned in Europe for its toxic effects, Chlorpyrifos, fenitrothion, and malathion—are broad-spectrum organophosphates, widely used pesticides sometimes referred to as “junior-strength nerve agents” because of their kinship to Sarin gas.
Africa should build its own financial architecture from ground up
In a generation an educated youthful population who number two for every child and pensioner delivers an economic boom since more people are economically active than dependents, and this builds up enough savings to reduce the cost of credit.
