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Star FM's programming consists of news, entertainment, political, business, sports and humanitarian programmes. “When the station began to broadcast in 2005, the listeners in North Eastern happily identified with Star FM, calling it their own,” the station ’s chairman Mohamud Abdullahi Sheikh told the Daily Nation. References
In January 2020, Business Daily Africa reported that the second loan, related to the Nairobi-Naivasha section of the Kenyan SGR, amounting to $1.482 billion, with a five-year grace period, fell due in January 2021. It attracts an interest rate of approximately 3.34 percent per annum and will be due in 30 semi-annual installments, beginning on ...
Somalis in Kenya are citizens and residents of Kenya who are of Somali ethnic descent. They have historically inhabited the North Eastern Province, previously called the Northern Frontier District, which was carved out of the Jubaland region of present-day southern Somalia during the colonial period. Following the civil war in Somalia that ...
In 2016, the Business Daily Africa reported that Kenya lost an estimated KSh. 10 billion (US$100 million) in revenue, annually, due to illegal fishing alone. Partly to mitigate this loss, the Parliament of Kenya adopted the Coast Guard Act 2018, which established the Kenya Coast Guard Service. The law was operationalized on 22 October 2018 ...
Sugar. Number of employees. 1,689 (2014) [1] Website. Homepage. Mumias Sugar Company Limited is a sugar manufacturing company in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. It is the largest sugar manufacturer in Kenya, [2] [3] producing about 250,000 metric tonnes (42%) of the estimated 600,000 metric tonnes annual national output.
Kenya has a strong tradition of oral literature, which continues today in several languages. [1] As a result of Kenya's history, including a period where it was a former British colony, Kenyan literature concurrently belongs to several bodies of writing, including that of the Commonwealth of Nations and of Africa as a whole. [1]
Coffee is a key forex earner for the country. [8] Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) indicates that coffee production in recent years has ranged from 34,500 to 51,900 tonnes. [8] In the 2022-2023 coffee year, $127.8 million worth of coffee was sold through the Nairobi Coffee Exchange.
The Luo are the fourth-largest ethnic group (10.65%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (17.13%), the Luhya (14.35%) and the Kalenjin (13.37%). [3] The Tanzanian Luo population was estimated at 1.1 million in 2001 and 3.4 million in 2020. [2] They are part of a larger group of related Luo peoples who inhabit an area ranging from South Sudan ...