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My business are sailing smoothly - when you've have systems in places - everything becomes easy. SYSTEMS & STRUCTURES are everything in business.

theenchanter:
i don't know n I don't care to know.

All I care about is if ur business is sailing smoothly.

You cannot have 10M illegals in country of 50M. That is like 20% of the population. ANC have failed. Their pan-african dream is not realistic. It probably why Somali and Nigeria don't fix their country - they have all these options out there.

Zimbwabweans basically destroyed their country and moved en-massed to South Africa. If they were kicked out - they will go back and straignthen their own country.

South Africa OWES NOBODY Nothing. Apartheid like racism or slavery is something every human being ought to fight. It outright wrong and evil. S

XhosaNostra:
The bolded is an issue we've been lamenting about for a very long time, which is one of the main reasons why the ruling party is gradually losing support.

There are very few illegal Kenyans in RSA - most of them are in curio business.

theenchanter:
and the kenyans too .... illegal immigrants should be flushed out!

Longest time.. our roadside economist. how's everything?

I am not sure why South African gov cannot kick out illegal mmigrants - That should be a pretty easy task - considering most of South African tribes are distinguishable from other Africans. What you need to do is to fund immigration - and go on hunting spree for all illegals immigrants. Then send them back home. It more dignified than letting the situation to get out of hand and have citizens attack illegals.

I mean Somalis, Ethiopeans, Nigerians, Zims and Mozambiques - you can pick them from the streets, ask them for legal documents and if not - send them in prison - or put them on a flight.

And of course this will be useless activity if borders are not secured.

XhosaNostra:
Sure, we will. I hope the DA wins the elections so we can have a sense of normalcy.

Not entirely true. It ended because of both domestic and international pressure. African countries put pressure on Western Countries to end apartheid. Western countries wouldn't had care less - but South Africa's Apartheid was a blot on every human conscience and had to go.

jln115:
apartheid ended due to sanctions from the west, and internal pressure from the ANC(and its alliance partners).....Not because of any African countries.

Bloomerg Healthiest Index.
In the SSA region, Kenya ranked third after Mauritius (74), which dropped one place from the previous gauge, and Cape Verde (94).
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/image/view/-/5056106/medRes/2301996/-/maxw/1272/-/15lb2sg/-/life-expect.jpg

Nairobi - Mombasa Railway - one of top ten train rides in the world.
https://i.imgur.com/TmBqiBR.jpg

Picture break - Nairobi's Westland.

Nigeria Statistics!!! Totally Absolutely OVERCOOKED. Apparently Lagos has 20M people and only about 1.5M voted - less than voting pop of Nairobi in 2017.

TayserMahri:
Inevitably one is bound to question Igbo population and how the war impacted it. One would expect a log-kill effect during the war followed by a Gompertzian growth immediately after but you folks are fond of breaking the laws of nature. As untrustworthy as you sound, I trust you more than the Nigerian bureau of statistics. If the pop now is 60 M then we need a new model to explain your nothing-short-of-madness growth rate. According to this research paper, the 1953 census revealed Igbos were 5 million. In 1963 they were 9 million, 1986 15-18 million...it gets vague over time lets end here.

Working with 5 million at time t=0, i.e 1953, and your current impartial estimate of 60 M, we get an annual growth rate of 17 %! Dont forget 3 M ± were later killed, so from the 5 M we could be talking of a low of 6 M as at the 60s, and consequently an even insanely higher growth rate. What the hell dude! I tried using a population tool projector and as soon as I entered the figures it auto-switched to bacteria pop prediction. Your fertility rate is only comparable to bacteria. I'm pretty sure its the same with the Hausa/Fulanis and Yorubas.

If you check and signed, ratified, and deposited; they are mostly the progressive nations of Africa - south africa, namibia,botswana,mauritus,kenya, rwanda, ghana, senegal, ivory coast.

gallivant:
Big mistake telling the truth. Prepare for a shift
in goal posts. Turkana drought photos loading in 3...2..1..

Tanzania and Nigeria - the laggards afraid of free africa trade

This is very great initiative. Baby step - hopefully Africa Dev Bank - will finance the building of infrastructure across countries - it should be one day be possible to drive all over Africa - with minimal border dirsuption.

Jonraid:
The usual suspects are yet to sign,we all know them!

They will tell you that they are Pro-Africa and Pan-Africans yet they aren't!


Ethiopia last week ratified the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), leaving only one more ratification for it to take effect.

Twenty-two ratifications are required for the agreement to enter into force and so far 21 countries have ratified their instruments.

Since the March 2018 AU Summit in Kigali when the continental pact was launched and signed by 44 states, eight more — South Africa, Sierra Leone, Lesotho, Burundi, Namibia, Guinea Bissau, Botswana and Zambia — have signed. Only Eritrea, Benin, Nigeria and Tanzania remain.

To date, 15 countries — Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Niger, Chad, Congo Republic, Djibouti, Guinea, eSwatini, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire — have deposited their instruments of AfCFTA ratification with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. Sierra Leone, Senegal, Togo, Egypt and Zimbabwe have received parliamentary approvals for ratification.

According to Stephen Karingi, director of the Regional Integration and Trade Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the remaining items for discussion on the AfCFTA are competition, provisions for investment, intellectual property and e-commerce. So far the protocols on goods, services and dispute settlement have been completed and their annexes will be ready by July.

“The second phase of negotiations on the remaining clauses will begin soon,” We expect that the discussions will be concluded early 2021,” said Dr Karingi.

What Ghana I say. Ghana is very impressive and progressive country. Definitely better than Kenya in most aspects. They are hitting mineral jackpot at right time - gold, oil, bauxite, name it.

kikuyu1:
I want to hear more about your bond. I understand and approve of the thinking-finally get all your infrastructure projects done without microeconomic strain. Tbh, we should do the same.
Even if you repay double after fifty years, IMO its worthwhile: trouble is too many of us are too comfortable with our poverty, a mindset even worse than corruption. Rvp2018,chip in!

Nairobi amongst top 100 Global Financial Centers in 2017 - at pos 97. Joining Johannesburg, Casablanca, Cape Town and Mauritius in Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Financial_Centres_Index

The uber-Lazy TZ finally made it to African Cup of Nation after 39yrs. Look like East Africa are fully in AFCON except for Rwanda - with Kenya, Uganda, TZ and Burundi representing - and even at club level - it appears likes of Simba and GorMahia are in quarters of Africa champion & 'afropa' league. All this is probably down to sponsorship from the likes of SportPesa and Supersport.

Is that really the solution - that dump site will be full in no time. These kind of band aids don't work. What works is for local authorities to make dumping illegal and for them to collect rubbish. Then everyone to clean up their mess in their own spaces.

vaxx:
Let's trend with more people like this. Kenya, Ghana , Nigeria, Tanzania , Ethiopia, South Africa and the whole Africa will need this kind of people.....

You're still on codein. Nigeria has earned more than 1 trillion dollars from Oil - and has ABSOLUTELY nothing to show for it. UAE has probably earned less. Look at Indonesia - and see where Nigeria would be - it has near similar everything with Nigeria.

As regard Kenya - how could kenya be developed - with very little arable & barely any mineral resources- if corruption was that rampant. Kenya has done very well - growing to become the biggest NON-MINERAL economy in Africa - is no joke.

Nigeria is not only corrupt - but it also generally very stupid. You can see wasted resources all over including Abuja - a dead city that cost I think 30B dollars - Abejuokota Steal mill that costed 8B dollars has rusted to the ground - I mean how do you spend 850M dollars to build Abuja dead city to Airport metro - that daily transport 400 passengers. You can easily have each of those passengers on their private choppers and still save money.

I mean it reported you spend 16B dollars to build 12,000MW power stations that now cannot even generate 2,500MW!! What a waste.

I mean if you were only corrupt - you'd be as good as Kenya or Indonesia (Suharto was very corrupt) - but if you combine corruption & stupidity - then there is no way you can ever come out of that mess.

68816419:
Nothing to show for ? yet our development spreads across all states, nothing show of and Abuja and other cities were built from scratch, New airports, ports,sporting facilities, super highways and other infrastructures development that Kenya can only dream of is been built ?.
let even assumes nothing was built from the free gotten oil money,Kenyans corruption is worst cause, the stollen money must be repaid to where they were loaned from going by the fact that Kenya does not have means of repaying these stollen wealth , unlike Nigeria that has oil and other resources

Isimba added I think 180MW - the big one is coming Karuma dam up will add 600MW. Obviously if they export it to kenya - they will makes tonnes of money - they charge crazy figure of 21kshs per unit! And I think Jinja still pretty much supply many parts of Western Kenya - after Turkwell which can generate 100MW plus was shutdown and Sondu Miiru doesn't have a dam - so it basically works on during rainy season - and they relie on Jinja & Diesel Generator. KETRACO is on the race to connect Naivasha Geothermal to Uganda..and then Uganda has to find another market for it's power.

Anyway one wishes that Africa was connected - South Africa need power - Nigeria need power - Uganda would sell their excess 1,000MW to them.

Jonraid:
''Isimba's commissioning on Thursday brings the country's power generation capacity to 1167MW against a peak demand of about 600MW.

With a surplus that is unutilised, retail tariffs are likely to remain high.''

We once talked about this rvp2018,rvp20183

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Uganda-Isimba-dam-183MW-power/2560-5035760-xh3lfkz/index.html

Flooding is annual ritual in Mozambique - Hunger in TZ is well guarded secret - Kenya drought is not any different from Cyclone that bombarded SADC - both are natural calamities. Kenya gov response to that drought of course is shameful.

Kazikazi:
Go study about security protocols for SADC members.

Mind you,SADC isn't starving like you. That's why we avoid you..
Have you donated?

You're just in SADC for the visa-free entry to South Africa. That is why SADC members have send like 8M immigrants to South Africa - and completely choked the country - Moz, Zim, Zam & TZ are some of biggest culprit.

Kazikazi:
Ask about Angola,DRC,Mauritius( which is richest), or Syschelles.why are you so obsessed with south Africa? Will they help in your starvation?

Yes there are 6M excess bags of maize that will probably end up in animal feeds. The problem of Baringo-Turkana - is not lack of food - it's gov failure to respond to drought early enough with all the excess food -

Jonraid:
The harvest was bumper that many farmers could not sell their produce to the government silos.The Strategic grain reserve was full,it's a shame that food couldn't reach those who needed it in time.Would be gutted if Uhuru doesn't sack some top cabinet ministers.It's crystal clear that some ministers are stealing a living earning two coma salaries and delivering zero in their mandate!

Maybe you've been to milder Eldama Ravine -Marigat. Not the real Baringo past Kabarnet. When you get to Turkana or Garissa - you'll disabuse yourself of any notion of agriculture. There is no soil there. Turkana is just stones....except for few river beds. Garisa & whole of NEP is sandy - from Ukazi in Mwingi. Turkana is fine with flooding because it mostly hilly rocks full of geckos and snakes. The North East is flat..and floods do serious damages..if there was anything to to damaged.

Honestly I won't blame anybody. Unless oil or diamond or some mineral underground was discovered and exploited there..no gov can justify the kind of expenditure it would be required.

With Turkana oil - that 30% that they will retain as oil expenditure will help feed them.

tylann:
I have been to all those areas iam in Nakuru
Baringo is just next door
Iam environmentalist
And i know our fckin government has failed us drought happen in Kenya yearly yet they are no long term solutions
The govt has released ksh 2 billion to feed the hunger stricken people that will not help again 2020 the cycle will repeat itself
For example the pekerra irrigation scheme in baringo encourages farmers to plant maize over sorghum and millet when drought comes all maize dry ups in the farms
Sorghum and millet are more drought tolerant than maize but since kenya seed company wants profits it fools farmers to plant maize in the end hunger strikes farmers
April is just next door the areas that are affected by drought noe will be hit with devastating floods
And all the water will go to waste instead of the water to be harvested and next year we will be here again fundraising for our starving brothers

I worked at UN during my formative career years - and I know a lot of interventions that were being done by gov, international agencies and NGOS in those areas. During that time I got a chance to fly around Turkana and North East Kenya. The moment you land in Turkana - the heat that hits you is incredible - I think during daytime temperatures rises as high as 40 celsius - and afternoon we had to take siesta despite UN offices there being air-con. That remind me the UN coordinator then was this bully Nigeria lady - Blessing or some name like that .. Anyway how people are even able to survive there on normal day to day is incredible. I could barely walk 10 minutes - without feeling like I was dying. At night - temperatures drops - but dusty wind starts.

Honestly I don't know what need doing. Already if you factor what gov and ngos spend PER CAPITA there it's A LOT.

I thought we had this figured out when cash transfer from mobile money became the main intervention there. Drought cycle there is nearly yearly.

Anyway I think until oil or diamond or gold is discovered in those Arid and Semi-Arid regions - it will be hard to justify spending any more money there. You easily cannot intervene in area where you find 1 or 2 person every 10kms in the most inhabitable places on earth.

Cold beer there taste so heavenly - I am still looking for the same experience.

tylann:
The issue of drought in Kenya is a common occurrence since Kenya is 89% arid
It hasn't rained in many parts of Kenya since last year November
Since most Kenyans depend on rain fed agriculture and pastoralism for they livelihoods this has hit them hard
But biggest blame lies with our useless government drought occur every year in kenya but they do nothing about it they just go for short term solutions like dishing out relief food the funny thing is after the drought massive floods will occur in the areas hard hit by drought that is how stupid our government is instead of constructing dams , water pans in this areas to trap and conserve the flood for future use
They will sit in Nairobi and start trading blames
County governments blaming the national government ,national government blaming the county government and the blame game will continue
The current drought and famine was foretold by the kenya meteorological department months ago yet the government did nothing
Uhuru Kenyatta is quick to send condolences to Mozambique cyclone victims while Kenyans are starving while he his feigning ignorance
This guy has not talked about the famine in turkana and baringo until
I mean does he know Kenyans are starving
He has jetted to Namibia to celebrate they independence day while Kenyans are starving
Kenyans here i hope you have sent your contributions don't let our brothers die
I pay tax but my fellow country men are dying of hunger in 2019 it hurts

Deceived in era of internet. The schools you listed are public secondary schools. They are national public schools - meaning they admit students from across the nation and are "elite" schools for top public kids - as opposed to extra county, county & day schools. Most kenyan secondary schools are public.

Then we have private schools - mostly mission & church schools - very few in secondary level but nearly 1/3 of primary schools are private.

Kenya rans 8-4-4 systems - after 8 yrs in primary schools - kids sit for national exams - KCPE - those that attained 400 out of 500 marks - are nominally admitted to PUBLIC NATIONAL schools like those in that list. A few position are reserved for kids in marginalized regions who don't make the pass mark.

They are about 100 national public secondary schools (majority formerly white only colonial schools) that admit about 7,000 top kids in KCPE exams - who are mostly assured of going to universities.

Those who get say 350/500 then get extra (provincial) schools - all the way - to those who get 200 marks - who get admitted to day schools near their home.

After another 4yrs in secondary - kids sits for national exams (KCSE) - and on that basis they are admitted to universities and colleges depending on performance. There is no university entry exam - that national exam KCSE basically determine the fate of the kids.

forgiveness:
I thought as much. They are bunch of deceivers.

1 passenger coach carrying 390 passengers in two trips from CDB to Airport - that cost 850M dollar investment so far. I don't think you should proceed with the other phase. That is colossal waste of oil money.

68816419:
keep shot you fool, U know nothing about Abuja light rail, Abuja light rail is constructed in phases, the first phase mostly targets the high class populous , that is from CBD to airport , while the train is functioning, the low patronage is as a result of the international airport still not fully in operation . The second and third phases is for middle class and low class populous, surely the system has been picking up slowly but steady, same goes to Abuja-Kaduna rail when it first started.

Awesome. When will Africa only PGA certified Golf Course - Vipingo in Mombasa - get some action!

TayserMahri:
Currently and in the next 3 days Kenya is/will being covered globally. Even on Supersport 1, 5 and 6.

When was the last time Nigeria was the epicenter of global sports?

Magical Kenya Open at Karen CC, Nairobi Kenya - Certified European Tour Tournament.

One of the more catchy golfers at the tournament is Hong-Sung Choi with his electric and famous Fisherman Swing. The fella uses his body as a remote control

There very little one can learn from Nigeria - if I was asked to say what I have learned that Kenya ought to copy - it probably nothing positive. Ghana is impressive. And of course South Africa is on another level.

tylann:
We can't learn from failures

You think that is expensive? I mean most kenya public schools charges fees around 60-100Kshs(roughly 1K dollars a year); gov does subsidizes them to large extend. Private International schools charge on average anything from 8-20K dollars.

68816419:
COULD YOU AFFORD IT?

Limuru Girls -120,000
Alliance Girls – 132 000
Kenya High School – 130,000
Lenana boys – 110,000

Starehe Boys 148,000
Kapsabet boys 105,000

Why don't we try the Abuja metro line a nearly 1B (850M) dollar investment that has 1 coach carrying 390 passengers in two trips a day. That can only be beaten by the 8B dollar steal mill that has rusted to the ground.

Nigeria is poor because it's stupid and corrupt. HOW DO YOU SPEND 850M dollars to ferry about 400 passengers

68816419:
Kenya should try this model, Lagos is already operating the this BRT system,while the light rail is at an advance stage

Hahaha. Agreed. That is a model prison right there.

Jonraid:
This might make a good prison!

That first one is pretty amazing.

XhosaNostra:
OK lol. I'm lazy to post all angles though.

Nairobi Riverisde - background you can see office complex that cowardly terrorist attacked.