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Ngong Road interchange at the southern bypass

Keep it moving!

Don't cut the trees! Ngong forest,one of Nairobi's lungs!

Kenya

1.FCB Mihrab,Kilimani

2.Luncheon at State House,Nairobi

3.Chale Island,Diani

4.Port of Mombasa

Coastal Kenya

Malindi Town alias Little Italy

Population 500k

Ok

Nigeria calling India poor? Nigeria of all?

Obiano13:
Indian poverty is a well known phenomenon globally! If you are trying to equate unsanitary Hinduass life with RSA life you be just common Thuggee! I saw an Indian thanking the British for colonizing and taking them to Europe as servants Really? Which kain caste be that woman and do you fall under the same caste Snob!



how is that your business? refute or no refute doesnt make a difference for someone in the Indian subcontinent. you have karachi next door to deal with leave Africa matter.

We might as well say Go Libya go!

Kazikazi:
Go Tanzania go united republic
Hahahahaha

Just like the way you described West African home designs as lacking the 'oomph' I'd say that most Kenyans would describe India in the same way. Ok,we are not giants or worldbeaters but then again,India? Pass!

Mkenya2019:
Goel,
Looking like Indian is very similar to Africa - the indian middle belt - nearly equal as poor.

Numbers are what makes India great at the same time making it not so great!

Mkenya2019:
Goel,
Looking like Indian is very similar to Africa - the indian middle belt - nearly equal as poor.

I get it but I'd describe India as a disorganised China!

Goel:
*2036 billion in 2018, 2019 figures are yet to arrive.

Where do they stand vis a vis all other human development indicators? AFAIK, GDP per capita is always studied in PPP for a reason as India's localised industry makes the cost of living in India much cheaper. Once again, Mauritius & Seychelles are Indian countries themselves.

Pick up their poverty ratios and inequality adjusted-HDI, even half of these handful of countries will shatter in no time.

Picking a handful of countries to boast of won't help you. Coz on average, Africa stands nowhere near India. Behind in terms of development indicators and far behind if we go ahead & cover technological aspects. India's GDP per capita is still growing faster than these countries. Even these countries with higher GDP per capita than India have multiple holes in their indicators along with no industrial base. India will leave behind them too like others.
There are tonnes and tonnes of indicators which you can go through and HONESTLY ask yourself, who has done better?

And now let's put all this nationalistic chest thumping aside and get on topic. As instead of replying to my question, you tried to brush it away by tempting me with ad hominem and telling me what YOU THINK about India.

I said no other African country comes anywhere close to South Africa. I hate this country for its anti-Indian political posturing multiple times. I usually try to insult them on other forums, here I've came across stupidity against them what they most certainly shouldn't face.

So, my point remains. CAN ANY AFRICAN COUNTRY STAND UP TO RSA? Can anyone of you?

India is far away in another league all together and if you think there's some sort of "competition" between India & Pak, you don't even have a clue about world around. Don't blabber about India because I won't respond. I don't think I have to preach much about it.

I love the greenery!

Stevoh18:
One greatest city in Africa #Nairobi

Kazikazi there's your cargo barge constructed by Kenya's SECO Engineering Limited


-Hapa Kazi Tu-

Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs.

The B2B food distribution company financed $6.25 million of the funding in convertible debt and $23.75 million in equity, classified as a Series B round. IFC, TLcom Capital, and Creadev joined Goldman on the VC side.

Twiga will use the funds to set up a distribution center in Nairobi and deepen its conversion to offering supply chain services for both agricultural and FMCG products.

The Nairobi based company will invest in expanding into more cities in Kenya, including Mombasa. Twiga is also targeting Pan-African expansion by third quarter 2020.

“We’re working on French West Africa…we see significant opportunity in those markets,” Twiga CEO Peter Njonjo told TechCrunch. The company will name the new country (or countries) in the following year, he added.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/kenyas-twiga-foods-eyes-west-africa-after-30m-raise-led-by-goldman/

It's overrated Sam, just like Nigeria!

samorobo:
Wow for the first time I agree with you

It's common to see fiber cables being laid all over! We are now on a fiber craze!

rvp2018:
Fiber was laid in Kenya 10yrs ago...only Lagos tech scene driven by Nigerian diaspora returnees is active like Nairobi, Joburg, cape Town and Cairo.But we are talking the future...where Nigeria won't feature..it most likely Rwanda and Kenya in SubSahara Africa.As you lay fiber to Yaba Kenya is laying fiber to every school soon...and how do we do it..we lay fiber along power lines.What you're doing now we did it years ago.. unlimited fast internet is available nearly everywhere in most urban areas of Kenya..you can get fiber terminated to you even in a Turkana.That is why Kenya speeds are better than most developed world.. Australia parliament got into big argument when research showed Kenya had better internet than them.As for Nigerians still using opera mini to stream internet...you're 10yrs late.I don't see anyone digging around installing fiber anymore.

Obviously rock bottom!

gallivant:
Damn! What position was Dangote Mafia Industries?

You must be sick!

Abohboy:
I just searched how much revenue they make it said 40 billion Kenyan shillings I converted that it said 327 million dollars whilst globacom(Glo) make 1.5 billion dollars if revenue and dangote's net worth is over 16 billion dollars if your company was bigger than dangote's he should be richer than dangote in fact he should be the richest black human in the world in that case but he isn't stop with your lies google can clear the misty lies that you produce.

Peter Ndegwa's CV

The new Safaricom's CEO!

West Africans know him.

Kenya

The Mama Ngina park in Mombasa looks like the place to be!

Garden City and TRM

Been at this two probably a thousand times!

Kenya

Galleria Mall

I've checked in here twice!

AI is the future.

One Insurance company in Kenya is already using it to fast track its claims resolutions through the use of anomaly detection, sentiment detection, text analytics and a self-service portal.

africabusinesscommunities.com/tech/tech-news/kenya-kenindia-assurance-to-use-artificial-intelligence-to-curb-motor-insurance-fraud/

MUMUdom:
Foolish Nigeria people, I greet una Rwanda is producing cars. Ghana is producing Artificial Intelligence sadly, nigeria is producing stvpid fools, and struggling to produce ordinary electricity. This is so sad

Nice to see the UK playing catch up!

Mkenya2019:
The same way you don't believe common sensical stuff like electricity 24-7 is possible. Well it very possible in kenya - for slums and even deep rural to enjoy 24-7 reliable electricity for 350 of 360 days a year.

Now talking Fiber....read here.

This white man went back to England from Nairobi - and this is what he said
https://twitter.com/benliquidkenya/status/1152123276547776512?lang=en

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_0p8eiXoAAftDg.jpg

I’m finally getting Fibre installed at my house in UK. Over five years since I got Fibre at my home in Nairobi Kenya. Great to see my mother country UK catching up on Africa with advanced technology infrastructure.

Carrying a Nigerian passport must be a complete torture to a traveller.

MUMUdom:
You are perfectly correct and they are soo arrogant and disrespectful that no one can feel sorry for them no country wants to admit nigerians because of their bad behaviour. And things are getting worse because their leaders don’t care about the people. I just arrived in Singapore and didn’t need a visa to come here(with my Ghanaian passport) whereas the nigerian alhaji who sat with me on the flight was lamenting how his wife was denied visa to travel to Singapore with him meanwhile this is a Nigerian “big man” from katsina state. Chai, nigeriaaaaaaaaa

Do we have much lighter regulations here? Should we police banks more? How will banks react to such a regulation in Kenya? Banks will still create loopholes to beat such a regulation. The rate cap didn't benefit us much contrary to our hopes as banks opted lending to the government more instead of the private sector. No market has no loopholes to beat any policy/regulation including Nigeria.

rvp20182:
There is no minimum LDR requirement but most kenyan banks exceed 60%. Majority do around 80%..

The problem is interest rates - I don't know how Nigeria survive with 20-25% interest rates - with CBR of 13%. Kenya has CBR of 8-9% and Interest Rate of 13% (with rate capping of course).

https://cytonn.com/uploads/downloads/q32018-banking-sector-report.pdf

Good on you then!

Abohboy:
Yes it does sound nice it shows we are not going to be bottom lickers or spoon fed by foreign companies, same how we will not eat foreign rice, or foreign yam we can produce our own things to provide for our people the more indigenous owners of products we have the more self sufficient we are and the less money spent on imports and the more money made on exports.

Well, it's only Nigeria in Africa that has its own indigenous car manufacturing plant. The rest of us just assemble. Congratulations! I hope that sounds good to you ?

Abohboy:
You see you people are there assembling here we are with our cars trying to produce our own products the only thing innoson imports is engine, fuel gauge and cooling system the rest of the 70% is all produced, built and made in Nigeria

Sadly Afri one is just assembled in Nigeria but it is still a step forward as he created the parts abroad and I ports the part he created not that he rebranded a phone but anyway hope innoson and Afri One can one day be 100% made in Africa, Nigeria to be exact.

A new Toyota assembly plant

Mombasa, Kenya


The cars assembled will be the Hilux, Rav 4 and the Fortuner.

Top pictures!

gallivant:
The Capital

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Impressive!

Mkenya2019:
Japanase throws 1.5B dollars investment in Mombasa including Dongo Kundu Special Economic Zone. This will be ready in 2023 and will provide 100K jobs.

The Dongo Kundu SEZ in Likoni, Mombasa, which is designed to be a multi-sectoral zone comprises of
Industrial Parks,
Free Trade Zones/Free Port,
Dongo Kundu Port,
Tourism Zone (MICE),
Business Service Parks;
Commercial and Residential Zone.

The SEZ will be developed in three phases with the first phase expected to be ready by 2023 and is projected to inject into the Kenyan economy Shs 400 billion in local and foreign direct investments and create more than 100,000 jobs...

There is always that one in the forum trying too hard to sound educated!

Kazikazi:
Those deep ' engineering stuff' are unexplainable to uneducated kiberans. Land reclamation is totally not in their vocab.

The recently launched special economic zone which is part of Mombasa port will change the port for the better. With the help of the Japanese government,Mombasa port model will be of like that of Jebel Ali port of Dubai,the ninth busiest in the world. The SEZ will be a game changer!

Mkenya2019:
Mombasa port have overtaken Lagos port complex in cargo throughput. I think Lagos is down to 1.2M TEUS a year while Mombasa is doing 1.3M TEUS (about 33m metric tonnes). Mombasa does twice Dar Port. Durban does 2.7M.

As for Lekki deap seaport - it will not see the light of the day without FUNDING. And that can only happen when oil price goes back to 100 dollars (never going to happen).Lekki was suppose to be operation last year - but construction is yet to start.

Now LAMU already knocked down 3 out of 32 berths - built in record 2-3yrs.