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Kenya and China have held a high-level Investment forum in Beijing amidst a widening trade imbalance between the two countries. Kenya imported goods worth KSh671 billion from China while it exported less than KSh17 billion. The forum held on October 23 which was organized by China Exim Bank, the Kenya Embassy in Beijing and Invest…
Cabinet secretary Lee Kinyanjui wants the national quality standards watch-dog, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), to give greater attention to traditional brews to enable their exploitation commercially. The Investment, Trade and Industry CS said the focus should be on responsible manufacturing and not simply restriction of production. “Some of our neighbouring countries have successfully standardized,…
Kenya is positioning herself to capture a greater share of the USD 8.75 trillion global digital trade market, Investment, Trade and Industry cabinet secretary Lee Kinyanjui says. This is through creating an enabling environment for more Kenyan businesses to reach regional and international customers. During a high-level workshop on Advancing Digital Trade in Kenya, the…
Kagwe Tea Factory in Kiambu has expressed interest in buying hundreds of acres of gazetted forest land in Laikipia to establish a plantation for wood fuel used in processing tea. This is despite the High Court in Nakuru a few years ago declaring titles of parcels curved out of Marmanet Forest null and void. The…
Former Governors of Laikipia and Nakuru are among top brains in finance and trade from Africa and beyond who have been lined up to speak at a forum of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Mr Ndiritu Muriithi, who is currently the KRA board chair, is expected to give the keynote address at…
Smart Town: C77 Junction-Bishop Louis-Koinange Street, Nyahururu as done by Governor Ndiritu Muriithi.
By Ndiritu Muriithi I first heard it in Kikuyu, spoken in Laikipia last weekend. And it translates roughly to “a political party is not River Jordan that on joining, your leprosy will be cured. The context is frustration that while no work is going on at County level, staff go unpaid for months and hospitals…