By Miki Tasseni : FEW explanations are being given over the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI as the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion followers of the Catholic religion, as the French call the denomination, and instead the focus is being directed as to who will take his place. This is not strange as there is an old principle…
By Nimi Mweta : PLENTY of agitation is often heard from policy making circles that businesses in the country should stop charging for services in the US dollar, seeking to make it that this leads to the local currency losing in value to Uncle Sam’s money, as this habit diminishes demand for it. This agitation would virtually make it…
Early life Reginald Abraham Mengi was born into a poor family in Northern Tanzania and raised in a mud hut which the family shared with cows, sheep, goats and chickens. He had one meal a day and sometimes none at all and walked to school barefoot. Notwithstanding these circumstances he managed to study accountancy and articles with Cooper Brothers…
* * * * **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **********************TUNIS, Tunisia,** February 6, 2013/ *– *Building on its Kenyan experience in the East African Rift Valley with the Menengai geothermal project, the African Development Bank (http://www.afdb.org) is working on an ambitious geothermal development program for Africa.**** Apart from the gigantic projects such as the 400 MW geothermal development project…
** * * **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **********************TUNIS, Tunisia,** February 5, 2013/ *– *The African Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor living in…