/-/539546/539546/-/88oe25/-/index.html http://www.bdafrica.com/Mobile%20money%20transforms%20Uganda/-/539546/1004934/-/dhr8ubz/-/index.html The days when you had to spend USh10,000 on bus fare just to deliver USh20,000 to a relative in the village or join a long queues in banking halls to pay bills are soon coming an end. 2010-09-06T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Uganda%20set%20to%20become%20regional%20rice%20exporter/-/539546/1004240/-/a4o6rn/-/index.html In a small garden at the Entebbe Botanical garden, about 40 kilometres from Kampala, a few yellowish plants are trying to adapt to their new environment. 2010-09-05T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Auditor%20general%20just%20got%20busier%20under%20new%20law/-/539546/1004308/-/18i9wqz/-/index.html How will the new Constitution affect Kenya’s accountability on public finance? 2010-09-05T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Govt%20gives%20PCs%20DCs%20a%20lifeline%20with%20deployment/-/539546/1002614/-/xva91sz/-/index.html The government on Thursday announced a major reorganisation of the provincial administration with the deployment of its officers to the newly created counties -- setting the stage for potential conflict between the central government and the devolved units. 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Kenya%20steps%20up%20fight%20against%20top%20crimes%20with%20new%20law/-/539546/1002640/-/v8ylig/-/index.html A Bill seeking to clamp down on organised crime received Presidential assent this week, moving Kenya closer towards effectively prosecuting the rising cases of syndicated crime. 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Monetary%20union%20dream%20long%20shot%20for%20East%20African%20partners/-/539546/1002464/-/tbqoeh/-/index.html East Africa might take longer to realise its dream of an effective single currency by 2012, with growing concerns that varying levels of financial openness and inadequate political will could derail faster integration of the five economies. 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/1001392/-/mqt2yk/-/index.html Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of the Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results — for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake. 2010-09-01T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/China%20fortifies%20State%20businesses%20to%20sustain%20high%20octane%20growth/-/539546/999828/-/lh1srl/-/index.html As the country recovers from recession and strives to grow richer, it is pumping money into public companies that will upgrade industrial base and employ more people, writes MICHAEL WINES 2010-08-30T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Bashir%20Annan%20asks%20Nairobi%20to%20clarify%20position/-/539546/999366/-/k8ujxp/-/index.html Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Sunday said he was surprised to see Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir in Nairobi and urged Kenya to clarify its position and reaffirm its commitment to the Hague-based ICC. 2010-08-29T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/999282/-/aioi42/-/index.html Joseph Ndirangu Muriithi is a worried man. After watching the fall of coffee farming in Kenya a decade ago, he now fears that his other cash crop will also go into decline as a new disease preys on his macadamia trees. 2010-08-29T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Outsourced%20employees%20now%20have%20a%20comfortable%20place%20in%20companies/-/539546/996810/-/n8sf7kz/-/index.html Call them what you like — contractors, temps, outsourced workers, freelancers, day labourers or, as one recent doomsday article suggested, disposable workers. 2010-08-25T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/996136/-/aime8r/-/index.html Rwanda’s capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping. 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/995378/-/ailql4/-/index.html Hop over a seep of filthy sludge behind a bathroom screened with ragged sacks, turn past the toilet with battered cardboard walls, crab between mud-brick shanties roofed with rusty metal... 2010-08-23T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Ray%20of%20hope%20as%20Kenyan%20researcher%20tackles%20aflatoxin%20poisoning/-/539546/994914/-/8s0vfe/-/index.html Despite a bumper maize harvest just a few months ago, many residents in the eastern part of Kenya are facing hunger and starvation. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/981112/-/ahwdop/-/index.html The industry is trapped between a demanding regulator, under-capacity in local production and soon to change Agoa rules, writes George Omondi 2010-08-19T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/980424/-/ahvqqu/-/index.html Often there is a blame game with the public sector being accused but there is a supply and demand factor on both sides, explains UN Global Compact Executive Director Georg Kell 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Wanted%20A%20new%20growth%20formula%20for%20Kenya/-/539546/978390/-/uuhtqy/-/index.html Governments cannot only intervene with policy to improve prospects, but also stimulate development in one sector which transmits good performance to the rest of the economy, writes Dr Mbui Wagacha 2010-08-17T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/977800/-/ahf66o/-/index.html The rally caused by extreme weather in Europe is overdone and has been amplified by investor short covering, but global stocks should adequately compensate for the shortfall, write Abah Ofon, Razia Khan and Victor Lopes 2010-08-16T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/977032/-/aheyyq/-/index.html An innovation by researchers in Nigeria could be a cure for the devastating Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) —responsible for annual losses in excess of 500 million dollars of crop across East and Central Africa. 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Experts%20warn%20against%20rushing%20changes/-/539546/975762/-/203dd8z/-/index.html The Committee of Experts, the team that wrote the new Constitution, wants Kenyans to wait for at least 10 years for any amendment, in what could trigger a fresh battle between the Government and those pushing for immediate repeal. 2010-08-12T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/975594/-/ahdpf2/-/index.html Activities like snorkelling and scuba-diving gain acceptance in Kenya, threatening to overtake beach sector in earnings, writes Abdullahi Jamaa 2010-08-12T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/975102/-/ahdm27/-/index.html For farmers to invest in technology to improve crop production, one must be assured of continued farm use and this can only be through possession of land tenure security, but this should not be the case, writes John Omiti and Maurice Ogada 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Kagame%20re%20elected%20by%20a%20landslide/-/539546/974622/-/gyc0uj/-/index.html Preliminary results announced by Rwanda’s electoral team indicate that President Paul Kagame has won the presidential elections by 92.9 per cent. 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/Unsound%20policies%20lock%20poor%20Kenyans%20out%20of%20basic%20healthcare/-/539546/974530/-/ndb1r9z/-/index.html Falling sick may be normal. But it is not normal when it means waiting for death because one cannot afford medical services. 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z http://www.bdafrica.com/-/539546/973830/-/ahcdyn/-/index.html A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi’s poor southern region has stirred debate on cash transfers. 2010-08-09T21:00:00Z