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Speaks volumes that Kenyans had the largest delegation to Tsishekedi's swearing in which both had Uhuru and Raila. Ruto was aforetime in Congo too.

Seems there is an interest in both Mozambique and Congo. This two countries are mineral rich. Humphrey Kariuki already has ties with Mozambique. We are yet to know fully Nairobi's intentions on this two countries!

kikuyu1:
Pedestrian-as to be expected from our media. Tutsis ,Belgium and France have indirectly ruled through their proxies for 2 decades,killing millions and stealing resources worth billions. Will they accept the new status? Imo, the DRC is even more important to V 2030 than S Somalia-do you know their known mineral reserves are 20 tn$?? The sooner this unhappy place is under our orbit,the better.

They do but not that much it seems!

tylann:
You mean those alliances don't profit airlines in any way

''SkyTeam, which Kenya Airways joined in 2010, is more beneficial to passengers—through frequent flier programs, lounges and membership status—than to the airline, '' Sebastian Mikosz said.

About time we pull out off the Sky Alliance.Couldn't agree more with Sebastian Mikosz statements!


Joint ventures allow for closer cooperation than alliances, he said.

“JVs(joint ventures) are really business-driven and have a very deep economic sense. You can easily compete with another member of the same alliance while you don’t compete with your JV partner,” he said.

JVs are “almost like having a company together, while the alliance has a non-obligation structure. There is no codeshare obligation—it’s just recommended,” Mikosz said.


Kenya is also building relations with Star Alliance member South African Airways (SAA).

“I have no reason not to cooperate with SAA. I don’t care if they are a member of Star Alliance and cooperate with EgyptAir,” Mikosz said.

I'm getting his point.The guy totally makes sense.What's your input in this rvp2018,rvp20183,tyllan,MtisTheQubit,Kikuyu,TayserMahiri,Gallivant,Yobeezy

http://atwonline.com/airlines/kenya-airways-weighs-leaving-skyteam-pursuing-jvs

Kengen are keen on directly supplying the power there,KPLC too wants to get involved.If they agree,the industrial park will commence if minor issues and other approvals are sorted.The shareholders are keen on seeing it happening.The ICD at Naivasha is a project that will be actualised,without the Industrial Park and the ICD the Naivasha SGR line will be meaningless.Horticultural sector and tourism is also expected to get a boost from the line.Investors have already submitted proposals to be part of the Olkaria Industrial Park since the presence of the railway and cheaper power directly sold by Kengen is something they wouldn't want to miss out.

I hope Mr Adan,Munya and Macharia fastrack this projects.Let's see how Matiang'i will perform on his role to supervise this CS's some of them who are lethargic in implementation of key government projects!

Already 3.4 b for land has been allocated.A Dubai firm is ready to build an apparel factory that could give 10,000 Kenyans employment.


https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/companies/Dubai-textiles-firm-to-create-10-000-jobs-at-Olkaria-plant/4003102-4367236-bngo6dz/index.htm



https://mobile.nation.co.ke/business/Hold-your-horses-KenGen-told-over-power/1950106-4946104-item-1-meg82c/index.htm

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/MPs-allocate-Sh3-4bn-for-Naivasha-industry-park-land/539546-4536406-mqqfdu/index.htm

rvp2018:
Phase 2A - The overall level of completion currently stands at 88.25% which is well in line with the launch scheduled for June 2019.

I dont think work on Naivasha Dry Port has yet began. I think this has yet to began.

Also Kengen industrial park is not happening soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_pp07RIfX0

Kenya has occupied both position 2 and 4 in logistics ranking in Africa.The video shows the Nairobi ICD,Kenya Railways has bought up more land to expand the facility!

A video showing double stack container train over Tsavo SGR Bridge.How many containers were those?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cWyZuSIL5U?t=23

The ability to move double-stack containers makes Kenya's SGR a cut above the rest in the continent! We are talking of 'Class 1 SGR' our Ethiopian

compatriots went for the 'Class 2 SGR' but haters would say that Kenya's SGR is a rip off without looking at the technicalities of both railways!

The rugged mountainous terrain as one transverses through Naivasha made one of the sub-grade cuttings of the Nairobi-Naivasha section of SGR to be about five storey deep!

Sub-grade cuttings,underpass and overpass construction,tunnel construction.

Kenya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJcbRjqlfic?t=5

The Nairobi Naivasha section is progressing well ahead of schedule!

The Nairobi-Naivasha section of the SGR which will also involve building of an ICD(Inland Container Depot) and an Industrial Park in Naivasha which will solely be powered by Geothermal Energy. The rugged terrain of upcountry Kenya will no longer be a logistical challenge no more.Kenya's Rift Valley section is the deepest in the world and construction of transport and communication networks has always been a challenge!

Strathmore University is a chartered university based in Nairobi, Kenya. Strathmore College was started in 1961, as the first multi-racial, multi-religious Advanced-level Sixth Form College offering science and arts subjects, by a group of professionals who formed a charitable educational trust (now the Strathmore Educational Trust). Saint Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, inspired and encouraged them to start the College. Strathmore has a particularly successful accounting program: 60% of the CPA finalists in Kenya coming from it in the past ten years, dating back from 2007. The current Vice-Chancellor of the University is Professor John Odhiambo.

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/marketnews/3815534-4949824-3qe99b/index.htm

https://www.constructionkenya.com/6108/kenya-housing-fund-explained/

The UN is keen to invest 640 million US dollars into Kenya's affordable housing project.This amount would guarantee 100,000 houses which will benefit 400,000-500,000 people.

The affordable housing projects will raise 570 million US dollars from Kenya's taxpayers annually through a 1.5 % deduction levy in workers salaries!

The government will use this fund to build the homes and the private sector will also chip in to build more homes!

Great shots!

rvp2018:
More nairobi random

According to one of this Nigerian girls who studied in USIU,Kenya.Her biggest culture shock in Kenya was seeing the big yansh of the Kenyan ladies.Nigerians like discussing non-issues such as a 'big yansh'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_nZ4mJ6ZTY?t=1

sufferNsmiling:
Please please nigerians can you stop attacking other african countries. See how these fools are making fun of kenya and other east african countries. Nigerians are zimbabweans crash on nairaland over

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019/01/25/uhuru-raila-hand-in-congo-presidential-poll-revealed_c1883670


https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Kenyan-link--in-Tshisekedi-election-victory/1056-4932748-14fq85w/index.html

What's your note on this?

TayserMahri:
Congo is complex bro

The government floats 2 and 15 year bonds in the domestic market

1.1 billion dollars worth of bonds are offered to it

The Treasury snubs 620 million worth of bonds and accepts the remaining balance

There is much liquidity it seems! We need to leverage this high liquidity into a platform where the government can fund projects without looking at the international markets but sourcing the monies internally.However,concerns such as the government competing with the private sector for the same domestic cash into the economy keep popping up!

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/capital/Treasury-snubs-Sh62-billion-in-bond-auction/4259442-4949816-ocwxuoz/

You are still far off as far as health is concerned!

Kazikazi:
We are not in a business of cooking GDP data.We are dealing with complex issues,scientific stuffs which no Kenyan can match us.Tanzania is in a different league.We are competing with S.Africa in science!
Swallow this pill u kiberans..

Glad no one is seeing this.I want that trend to continue that this Nations will one day look at their back and see Kenya smiling at them,that would be a shocker for them!

No one is heaping praise of Kenya being the largest non-mineral based economy in Africa due its diversification,it seems we are going stealth!

Kur17:
For sure Nigeria is another failure story,
4years ago Nigeria had 9× bigger GDP than Kenya,
In 2014 Nigeria had a GDP of $568, Kenya was $61....

Only bigger economies than Kenya, namely Morocco and Egypt's are doing fairly well, the rest we may catch up with them if the trend persist...

That link is always important!

Ibrahimanis:
Yeah I sat down in my room, and I was like "hey Anees, how do we deceive Kenyans today? "tell them you are a Kenyan? Nah too easy" "how about you are from mars? Too ridiculous" how about you form a chart that shows Manipulated Nigerian GDP, coz most of them reside in kibera and don't have access to internet, they are totally going to be fooled by that. Perfect absolutely perfect" and voila here is the manipulated Nigerian GDP.

https://mgmresearch.com/top-20-countries-by-gdp-2019-forecast/

Lesser population,sheer number of projects and a lesser geographical area!

Ibrahimanis:
Exactly my point West Africa accounts for more FDI than East Africa but your analysis on East Africa benefiting more because of lesser population is spot on.

But we know that West Africa is a much larger block geographically and also when you look at its population.

East Africa beat West Africa in the number of FDI projects though! Ibrahimanis

West Africa led in more FDI's than East Africa

FDI in Africa at a 10-year low
FDI flows to Africa slumped to $42 billion in 2017, a 21 per cent decline from
2016. Weak oil prices and harmful lingering effects from the commodity bust
saw flows contract, especially in the larger commodity-exporting economies.
FDI inflows to diversified exporters, including Ethiopia and Morocco, were
relatively more resilient.
FDI flows to North Africa were down 4 per cent to $13 billion. Investment
in Egypt was down, but the country continued to be the largest recipient in
Africa. FDI into Morocco was up 23 per cent to $2.7 billion, including as a
result of sizeable investments in the automotive sector. FDI flows to Central
Africa decreased by 22 per cent to $5.7 billion. FDI to West Africa fell by 11
per cent to $11.3 billion, due to Nigeria’s economy remaining depressed.
FDI to Nigeria fell 21 per cent to $3.5 billion. East Africa, the fastest-growing
region in Africa, received $7.6 billion in FDI in 2017, a 3 per cent decline from
2016. Ethiopia absorbed nearly half of this amount, with $3.6 billion (down
10 per cent), and is now the second largest recipient of FDI in Africa. Kenya
saw FDI increase to $672 million, up 71 per cent, due to strong domestic
demand and inflows into information and communication technology (ICT)
sectors. In Southern Africa, FDI declined by 66 per cent to $3.8 billion. FDI
to South Africa fell 41 per cent to $1.3 billion, due to an underperforming
commodity sector and political uncertainty. In contrast, FDI into Zambia
increased, supported by more investment in copper.
The beginnings of a commodity price recovery, as well as advances in
interregional cooperation through the signing of the African Continental
Free Trade Area agreement, could encourage stronger FDI flows in 2018,
provided the global policy environment remains supportive.

Refrences

https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2018_overview_en.pdf

Ibrahimanis:
True but that's not what we are talking about, we are not talking value of FDI by region in Africa. He said East Africa always account for more FDI than West Africa, and I said historically west attracts more FDI than East Africa but I haven't seen the value for 2018, you can share if you have.

About Africa's FDI

West Africa should be a larger market than East Africa,but read here more why E.Africa is doing well than it.It's more better if more billions go towards a smaller populace!

https://www.ey.com/za/en/issues/business-environment/ey-attractiveness-program-africa-2018

Ibrahimanis:
Did you also read it?
This is the screenshot

West Africa 11bn
East Africa 7.6bn

Remittances are mainly for families,African governments have been looking on how they can get and pump this cash into big money development projects! On a side note,remittances up the GDP of a country much!

bantudra:
i once read a news that the money that nigerians abroad send back home is even higher than earnings of oyel....

The same way we still can't build a nuclear powered car or plane. Weight and safety concerns keep popping up!

sufferNsmiling:
It all boils down to power a hydrogen engine is more powerful than a diesel or petrol engine for the same size in terms of horsepower to kilograms. Electric vehicles are made very light extremely light to go long distances you cannot load electric vehicle heavily so when you take the power to weight ratio you find out electric vehicles lose out

We have not even perfected our Agriculture yet,I see more and more potential.It's hard to see a country that become developed without going agrarian first.Let us get the sugar,cotton(apparell) and pyrethrum sector to life.Let us perfect our maize,rice,wheat,coffee and tea sectors.In this way,there will be money flowing through the villagers pockets.We need to encourage community ranching instead of community pastoralism.We need to go back to agriculture,we need to rethink agriculture;we need to go back to the basics.Food will be the next oil!

rvp2018:
If we continue at this pace - we will hit 150B (kshs 15 trillion) in 2023. Then hit 400-500B by 2030. By then we will definitely be competing with South Africa. Nigeria we will not exists then or will be mired in a civil war - Oil-dependent countries are facing a bleak future. We just need to manage our ethnic based politics...

That explains why we are planning to spend 4.4 billion dollars in our education this year!

vaxx:
in actuality, trends have beeng showing mineral resources is not dependable and cannot skyrocket a weak economy. what to do is to to apply brain work. human as individual are the most prestigious asset.

The land and property market in Kenya is huge.Buy as many as you want.Land and properties don't easily depreciate!

mtisTheQubit:
or buy part of Nairobi while it lasts ..i hear guys from far as Dubai are shopping around.

No wonder the NSE and our banks give investors the most returns.A strong shilling!

Here you go.For positive dollar returns,go to Kenya.The shilling can just wake up bullish sometimes!

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/08/16/kenya-shilling-third-best-performing-currency_c1803338

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/marketnews/Boon-for-foreign-investors-at-NSE-/3815534-4565372-u9vcegz/index.html

https://investinginafrica.net/best-bargain-among-kenyas-big-banks/

rvp2018:
Kenya is growing at more than 6% - or double digit - because you need to factor the strength of currency against USD. That is adding another 4-5% to growth. You see for economy to grow from 88% to 98% - 10B dollars more - then growth rate is more than 10% - around 11%.All that is coming because for many years Kshs has been Africa strongest currency - it doesn't depreciate like the rest - and when it does it not a catastrophy.

They are the Kings of cashew nuts though!

mtisTheQubit:
That was a shocker..TZ got everything to be a superpower in east africa but naaaaah they had to stick to the same ol ujamaa way of doing things..

Electrical vehicles are improving day by day.They can now charge themselves and get some more power when they go down the gradient(downhill) no matter the gradient size.What we need now is a super battery! Researchers however are putting their bet on Super-capacitors to power electrical vehicles in future!https://www.iflscience.com/technology/graphene-based-supercapacitors-could-eliminate-batteries-electric-cars-within-5-years/

sufferNsmiling:
Very good question but I think it is better to use electricity than to use fossil fuel . To create hydrogen all you need is 4 to 12 volts dc current and then you get hydrogen There is actually nothing in this world for free. A hydrogen vehicle can travel 500 to 600 kilometres on a single water tank. Why electric vehicles can only travel 300 km