/news/-/2558/2558/-/o3vy3hz/-/index.html http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1003926/-/opedbiz/-/index.html By 2012, just two years from now, about one million youths in Kenya will turn 18 years or would be young adults. Adulthood will come with new demands and responsibilities that the government will have to start planning for now. 2010-09-06T17:03:39Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1003908/-/opedd8z/-/index.html The explosive price wars in Kenya that have seen consumer prices of mobile phone talk-time tumbling by more than 40 per cent are grabbing the headlines. 2010-09-06T16:44:51Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1003898/-/opedwpz/-/index.html At least eight Ugandan youths are known to have died while fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, having been conscripted by agents working closely with Gen Laurent Nkunda. 2010-09-06T16:38:07Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1003844/-/opee29z/-/index.html The Tanzania government is demanding that the £30 million ($46 million) that Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE Systems, has promised to pay to settle the Watchman radar scandal, be channelled through it. 2010-09-06T15:45:49Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1003776/-/opeer0z/-/index.html When Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir showed up in Nairobi on August 27 for the launch ceremony of Kenya’s new constitution, he became the Big Party Pooper. 2010-09-06T15:18:52Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1004082/-/opduw9z/-/index.html The demarcation of a clear North-South Sudan border remains unresolved five years past the deadline set by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the country’s decades-long civil war. 2010-09-06T08:22:29Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1004080/-/opduwbz/-/index.html This year, the annual holy month of Ramadan started in Somalia on August 11 with mixed feelings, especially among the residents of Mogadishu, the capital city. 2010-09-06T08:11:58Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1004076/-/opdux1z/-/index.html With her trademark short-cropped hair and humble mien, Dr Anna Tibaijuka has managed to leave a humanitarian legacy as she leaves office of UN-Habitat executive director. 2010-09-06T07:55:51Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1004048/-/opdv0mz/-/index.html To avert self-destructing, build a culture of talking to and with each other. 2010-09-06T07:10:28Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/998820/-/pa6bx7z/-/index.html Hima Cement, a subsidiary of Larfarge Group, has completed a major expansion project worth Ush265 billion ($118 million) with installed capacity of 10 million bags per year, as it seeks to satisfy growing demand and environmental compliance requirements. 2010-08-30T15:10:32Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/998806/-/pa6bysz/-/index.html Kenya is moving to boost its exports to China, following talks between Kenya’s Minister for Trade Amos Kimunya and Vice Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, Jiang Zengwei. 2010-08-30T14:47:47Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Geothermal%20power%20to%20help%20cut%20production%20/-/2558/998754/-/84s4dsz/-/index.html The Geothermal Development Company (GDC), a government-owned firm has harnessed steam equivalent to 80MW of electricity in the past six months, signaling Kenya’s resolve to seek alternative reliable energy to bring down the cost of manufacturing and spur economic growth.  2010-08-30T14:23:35Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/998694/-/pa6dbsz/-/index.html Lowering the retirement age from 60 to 55, as Uganda struggles to cope with youth unemployment, is back on the cards. But experts are warning of technical and financial pitfalls. 2010-08-30T13:21:52Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/African%20leaders%20face%20off%20in%20a%20political%20beauty%20contest/-/2558/999118/-/moy3a2/-/index.html The World Bank’s Africa Development Indicators does not make news, partly because you really have to look for it on the Bank’s site. 2010-08-30T13:21:35Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/998666/-/pa6deez/-/index.html Tanzania’s power utility has warned that failure to adjust electricity tariffs upwards may result in the delay of major projects. 2010-08-30T13:01:50Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Tullow%20loses%20money%20and%20rights%20as%20oil%20deal%20goes%20bust/-/2558/998626/-/no47thz/-/index.html The simmering battle between Uganda and exploration companies over oil revenues boiled over last week with Irish firm Tullow Oil losing its rights to the 400 million-barrel Kingfisher well. 2010-08-30T12:34:17Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Kenya%20to%20guarantee%20large%20energy%20projects/-/2558/998616/-/6xdtncz/-/index.html The Kenya Cabinet has at last moved to secure guarantees needed to speed up implementation of key energy projects whose progress have been dogged by financial uncertainty for nearly one year. 2010-08-30T12:19:38Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/998318/-/pa6fv5z/-/index.html Kenya ignored the arrest order slapped on President Omar al Bashir, who faces charges of genocide, by allowing  the Sudanese leader to join other  dignitaries  to witness the promulgation of  the country’s  new constitution. 2010-08-27T14:44:56Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/998012/-/pa6i8oz/-/index.html A new Kenya was born yesterday at the historic Uhuru Park grounds in a cold chilly morning attended by a host of dignitaries and thousands of Kenyans. 2010-08-27T08:34:24Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Zimbabwe%20land%20case%20tops%20SADC%20agenda/-/2558/994306/-/1h068lz/-/index.html They came, they saw … but whether they conquered anything remains open to debate. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/ICG%20bets%20on%20a%20return%20to%20peace%20in%20war%20torn%20Chad/-/2558/994304/-/p813yf/-/index.html The Chadian elections scheduled for November provide the biggest opportunity to end the political and military turmoil that has bedevilled the Central African country for the past five years. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Work%20on%20EA%20standard%20gauge%20railway%20starts%20in%202012/-/2558/994290/-/1nl0dk/-/index.html It is now emerging that the logistics needed for the planned East African standard gauge railway network will pose enormous challenges. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/A%20billion%20people%20are%20going%20hungry%20and%20still%20we%20are%20not%20angry/-/2558/994312/-/3a7wvp/-/index.html What is hunger? To most people hunger is just a minor physical sensation felt a few times a day. But to over a billion people worldwide, it’s a lot more than that. It’s a chronic state. That is, each of these people feel hungry almost all the time, every day. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Opposition%20looks%20to%20defectors%20to%20control%20parliament/-/2558/994300/-/cyr4xt/-/index.html With two months to go before the October 31 poll in Tanzania, election fever has gripped the country as voters register in record numbers. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/US%20turns%20to%20shadow%20war%20in%20new%20anti%20terror%20strategy/-/2558/994286/-/10ytwrrz/-/index.html At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: An airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary Queen of Sheba. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z