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VIDEO: Kenya's affordable solar power projects

2016-04-22 13:42:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Entrepreneurs in Kenya are harnessing solar energy to provide ordinary Kenyans with power for their homes.

Controversial Railway Splits Kenyas Parks, Threatens Wildlife

2016-04-18 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Controversial Railway Splits Kenya's Parks, Threatens Wildlife The line under construction in the modernizing nation will run through two national parks and has already disrupted elephant movements. White rhinos graze in Nairobi National Park, Kenya's oldest national park and the only wildlife park in the world located in a capital city. As the East African country races to modernize, conservationists worry that its wildlife may be threatened. TSAVO WEST NATIONAL PARK, Kenya-When it comes...

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VIDEO: Building Kenya's giant new mall

2015-12-03 01:15:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Karen Allen visits the site of a new shopping mall being built in Nairobi, built and part-funded by a Chinese company, which is set to be the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa.

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On Kenya's climate frontline, female farmers building secure future

2015-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: On a slope overlooking the rugged land of dry shrubs around Lolmusikopyi village in Kenyas Samburu county, Christine Letooya is busy harvesting her crop. Letooya plucks the ripe cobs of maize from between the papery leaves. Like all farmers, she works long hours but at least this toil is safe she used to be a pastoralist but armed raids by cattle rustlers persuaded the mother of four to change her way of life. Five years ago, our village was raided by armed young men from the Pokot community....

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