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Community radio brings forecasts to Kenyas most climate vulnerable

2015-04-09 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: It is the top of the hour at ten oclock in the morning and, broadcasting from the top of Esibila hill in Western Kenya, Moses Ombogo is telling farmers to prepare for early rains. My dear listener, mother, father, grandma, grandpa, uncle and aunt, we are happy to inform you that the rains have now come and you should be preparing to start planting, he says. Down the slope, 80-year-old Mariam Omulama is holding a blue radio with a long aerial. The radio has a winding handle to power it, and a...

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VIDEO: Kenya's quiet 'food revolution'

2015-03-06 13:11:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Local restaurants will soon feel the force of fast food in Kenya, reports the BBC's Michael Kaloki.

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Kenya's Safaricom applies for digital broadcasting licence

2015-03-05 08:00:26| Digital TV News

Kenyan telecoms operator, Safaricom, has applied for a digital broadcasting licence in order to be able to offer television along side its other broadband products. The company has also received approval to import set-top boxes for sale in the local market.

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In Kenyas Mountain Forests, A New Path to Conservation

2015-02-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Here is a good news story from Africa. A story about how conservationists and forest managers are putting local communities at the heart of efforts to protect forests on critical upland watersheds. In Kenya, local famers are replacing state officials and forest wardens in the battle against a corrupt system intent on ransacking natural resources that once reached all the way to the presidents office. Can local control work where the state failed? Will the countrys critical water towers be...

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