New statistics show that the life expectancy of people living in Kenya has increased in the last 8 years from 57 in 1991 to 67 in 2017. “Between 1990 and 2017, Kenya’s life expectancy at birth increased by 9.8 years, mean years of schooling increased by 2.8 years and expected years of schooling increased by 3.0 years,” according to the United Nations Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update. Many factors like improved nutrition, access to fresh water, recovery from HIV epidemics and decreases in child mortality have led to an increase in life expectancy to 60.7 years compared…
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The second edition of the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom youth football tournament season two has partnered with Spain’s top football league, LaLiga. The partnership involves a scouting program that will see certified LaLiga coaches travel to Kenya to search for talented players, both boys and girls, who will make up an all-star team. “We are very excited to be bringing on board LaLiga to add to the already existing partnership we have with FKF for this second season of Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom. As you know LaLiga is home to some of the best footballers in the world including five-time…
The European Commission wants a new ‘Africa – Europe Alliance’ to deepen economic relations and boost investment aimed at creating up to 10 million Africa-based jobs in the next five years. “Africa does not need charity, it needs true and fair partnership. And we, Europeans need this partnership just as much. Today, we are proposing a new Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs between Europe and Africa. This Alliance, as we envision it, would help create up to 10 million jobs in Africa in the next 5 years alone,” said President Jean-Claude Juncker. The EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini…
Kenyan MP Godfrey Osotsi will re-introduce a legislation in the National Assembly that seeks to regulate the Information, Communications and Technology sector. “I am sponsoring the ICT Practitioners Bill. This is very key because we cannot do all these good things when our own industry is not regulated. We want to promote professionalism in the industry. There are so many quacks in the industry. We need a proper legislation and regulation,” said Osotsi, ICT Committee Parliamentary Member during a two days conference on the Framework for Digital Markets in Kenya organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Kenya and KICTANet a…
President Uhuru Kenyatta has proposed austerity measures and budget cuts aimed at reducing the gap deficit between revenue and expenditure. “These budget cuts ask all of us in government to tighten our belts. It also ensures that the sacrifices made by tax compliant Kenyans are matched by discipline,” said the President in a televised address from State House, Nairobi. The President on Thursday rejected the 2018 Finance Bill that wanted the implementation of the 16 percent Value Added Tax on petroleum products for another two years. “The Finance Bill 2018/19 brought to me yesterday (Thursday) fell short of this threshold.…
Africa Logistics Properties has unveiled its first 49,000 sqm of modern Grade A warehousing facility at Tatu City. The Ksh 10 billion investment which targets large logistics and distribution firms is 75 percent pre-leased. “The near-complete uptake of ALP North prior to launch speaks to the scale of the warehousing shortage in Kenya. But it also demonstrates that real estate requires developers to concentrate on the genuine areas of market need,” said Toby Selman, CEO of ALP. During the event, Susie Kitchens, British Deputy High Commissioner, Kenya welcomed the investment “Your vision, to create a Pan-African portfolio of modern warehouses that…