More than a century after a colonial railway gave birth to modern Kenya, the country is betting on a new Chinese-built route to cement its position as the gateway to East Africa. The $3.2 billion (2.8 billion euro) railway linking Nairobi with the port city of Mombasa will Wednesday take its first passengers on the … Read more
A fiery truck crash in Kenya on Saturday killed at least 39 people and injured many others, according to officials. Around 11:30 p.m. local time, a truck driver heading from Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and largest city, to Naivasha lost control going downhill, officials said. The truck rammed into more than a dozen vehicles, according to … Read more
The accident happened late on Saturday night at Naivasha A fireball from an oil tanker on one of Kenya’s main highways has engulfed several vehicles and killed at least 25 people, a Red Cross official said on Sunday. “We have so far collected 25 bodies from the scene of the accident after a lorry heading … Read more
It is no longer news that Mark Zuckerberg, the 32 year-old founder of Facebook is in Africa. His first stop was Nigeria; the Africa’s most populated black nation and now second biggest economy in Africa after South Africa – where he interacted with Nigerian technology startups and the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and pledged … Read more