Kenyan entrepreneurs win big in NYC

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http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130208002058-36792-kenyan-entrepreneurs-win-big-in-nyc

Kenya begins construction of ‘silicon’ city Konza

News Link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21173158

From flying toilets to fertiliser, slum sanitation in Nairobi is changing

News Link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/nov/19/flying-toilets-fertiliser-slum-sanitation-nairobi

Kenyan capital Nairobi gets new train

News Link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20310767

Kenya building a digital future in Africa’s silicon savannah

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/30/kenya-silicon-savannah-digital-technology

What Kenyan students’s startup could do that a big telecommunications giant Airtel couldn’t do!

Check out the inside story on what a team of Kenyan graduate students’s startup did during a Spring internship with a pay of $150 a month that Bharti Airtel proposed for $1.9 million

 

For news on this, check the below link

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/39673/

Wind power project raises development hopes in N. Kenya

An upcoming Wind power project raises development hopes in North Kenya. But will it REALLY benefit the locals who live in (energy) poverty?

Solar street lamps help Nairobi see the light

Reference Link
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/solar-street-lamps-help-nairobi-see-the-light

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kenyan farmers beat drought – and then battle pests

A drought-resistant maize variety sits on display outside a retail seed outlet in Machakos, Kenya. ALERTNET/David Njagi

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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/kenyan-farmers-beat-drought-and-then-battle-pests/

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Africa Views – Information as aid in East Africa’s famine

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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/africa-views/information-as-aid-in-east-africas-famine/

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Backpack Farms: Targeted solutions to help African farmers become more resistant to drought

 

Reference Link
http://dowser.org/backpack-farms-targeted-solutions-to-help-african-farmers-become-more-resistant-to-drought/

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Dowser Media

‘Stove Man’ videos aim to light a fire

Reference Link
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2011/0628/Stove-Man-videos-aim-to-light-a-fire

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The Christian Science Monitor