Less than 15 years after ‘Rwanda’ became a synonym for hell, tourism has joined coffee and tea production as one of the country’s major industries, bringing in $42.3 million in 2007, including $7 million for gorilla permits. Poor Rwandans bear the ...
"We feel that we should be a catalyst," Joseph Mucheru says, sitting in his office that overlooks central Nairobi. We, in this case, is Google, and the stout 39-year-old Kenyan heads the company's first outpost in sub-Saharan Africa. About 5% of ...
Since One Acre started the program, it has enrolled about 2,000 farmers in Kenya and Rwanda. Not a bad beginning, but Youn’s immodest goal is to help millions. BUNGOMA, KENYA—Andrew Youn was not happy about the passion fruit. The electric green ovules ...
NAIROBI, Kenya—In fixing elections, appearances matter. If the officials seem plodding and deliberate or, in the case of dictatorships, brazen and brutal, they can assure themselves of victory. The ethnic violence currently convulsing Kenya springs ...
Its strategic importance is clear: The U.S. generates about half of its electricity from coal. With supplies in the ground expected to last at least 100 years, the country has been called the Saudi Arabia of coal. Maybe that's too much of a ...
Despite recent hoopla about the corn-based fuel, consumers generally do not have a choice about whether to put it in their tanks. ADM's impressive numbers, especially in the fourth quarter, owe something to refiners in some states beginning to ...
During Herbert Allen's annual media-mogul summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, earlier this month, a flurry of press reports and hints from involved parties suggested a possible deal between the companies. Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet summed it up in ...
With the overall number of shares trading on the S&P Europe 350-stock index increasing, the buybacks provided less of a boost, in terms of earnings per share, than they did in the U.S. Standard &Poor's interprets this as a plus for European ...
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