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By 2010 there were more than twenty large micro finance institutions in Kenya, which provided US $1.5 billion to approximately 1.5 million active borrowers. With over 100,000 clients, Equity Bank Kenya had the largest share of business loans representing market share of 73.50% followed by Kenya Women Microfinance Bank with 12.06%.
The size of Africa compared to other continents. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [7]
Kenya is represented in Mexico from its embassy in Washington, DC. [196] Mexico has an embassy in Nairobi. [197] Peru: 25 February 1976: Both countries established diplomatic relations on 25 February 1976 [198] Peru has an embassy in Nairobi. Kenya is accredited to Peru from its embassy in Brasília, Brazil. United States: 12 December 1963
After the Second World War, Asians were found in all occupations in Nairobi and the townships: in business, the police force, bureaucracy, and the professions. [20] Their commercial skills contributed to the economic development and prosperity of Kenya and the rest of East Africa. [21]
As of 2007 the group was the largest private media house in East and Central Africa, with offices in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. [2] [needs update] The group publications include: The EastAfrican; Daily Nation; Business Daily Africa; Daily Monitor; The Citizen; NMG Investor Briefing; Taifa Leo; Zuqka.
Simon Ateba (born 1979 or 1980) is a Cameroonian [1] [2] [3] journalist. He is the owner and sole employee of the website Today News Africa, for which he was a White House correspondent. [4]
The term originally referred to the carrier business within smuggling operations across the Uganda Kenya border in the 1980s and early 1990s. The carriers either walked, used bicycles or motorcycles across the border. It was the carrier business that was locally referred to as boda boda meaning border to border.
Thika (Swahili:) is an industrial town and commerce hub in Kiambu County, Kenya, lying on the A2 road 42 kilometres (26 mi), northeast of Nairobi, near the confluence of the Thika and Chania Rivers.