In many ways countries like Kenya are leading the developed world in this area.
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Heavily armed pastoralists like Kenya's Turkana are unlikely to respect oil-company property.
It is an ambitious target, but countries like Kenya and those closer to South Africa are hopeful the 2010 legacy will extend beyond the world cup hosts.
No fewer than 2, 000 people return home with the disease each year as African holiday resorts in malaria endemic areas like Kenya and Gambia grow in popularity.
Chinese companies have a great potential to export to countries like Kenya and Tanzania where the per capita incomes, operating conditions and emission standards are closer to those in China than they are to those in more developed countries.
Uganda has no tradition of sculpture: nothing like Kenya's popular Kamba carvings, still less the sophisticated wood and stone sculptures of Benin or elsewhere in West Africa, which brought bold lines into the work of Constantin Brancusi and other modernists.
Cities such as Minneapolis, Stockholm, Cardiff and Dubai, all have large Somali populations, as do neighboring countries like Yemen, Kenya and Ethiopia.
It is also backing "tech hubs" in places like Nairobi, Kenya, that offer space for coders to work on startups and community projects.
France Telecom has made acquisitions and stake purchases in emerging markets like Madagascar and Kenya, and also wants to invest in Vietnamese companies.
Tanzania and Uganda have banned smoking in public places and countries like Ghana, Kenya and Mauritius have ratified the WHO tobacco control treaty, which promises to increase tax on tobacco sales, introduce smoking bans and reduce tobacco production.
Moreover, these firms might be inclined to help finance alternative export routes, like a pipeline through Kenya.
My old friend Maina said earlier on that there's a tendency to define crises like the one in Kenya as almost exclusively ethnic, and there is without doubt an ethnic dimension.
And I think it causes us, I think, as outsiders, to look down on Africa and Kenya in circumstances like this, to obscure the solutions that rest in the political and economic realm.
In high-prevalence areas, such as Kenya, the effect looks like being worse.
As his career took him around the world, he discovered youth entrepreneurs like a 19-year-old in Kenya who is bottling water and selling it at half the cost of importers, giving access to drinking water to more people than ever.
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Primeval thrills like these are increasingly hard to come by in Kenya.
For ordinary Kenyans there is some concern that, should the military get embroiled deeper in Somalia's complicated war, it could make Kenya more of a target for groups like al-Shabab.
The large numbers of herd animals -- wildebeest, zebra, antelope -- and the drama of the migration attract many visitors to Kenya and Tanzania -- but in places like the Ngorongoro Crater you are likely to see many other vehicles during a game drive.
Having already spent a night at the Ark, a quirky Noah's Ark-like lodge tucked into the thick, verdant forests of Kenya's Aberdare National Park, I was familiar with the drill: one bell meant elephants arriving to the salt lick and watering hole that the back of the lodge overlooks.
The World Bank rates Kenya as a low-income country and analysts like Alban Aoko of Consumer Trends say that companies ignoring the mass market do so at their own peril.
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However, the EU statement noted that they "and other like-minded states have a long-standing policy, not limited to Kenya, to have only essential contact with indicted ICC suspects", the AFP news agency reports.
Maina Kiai, I'd like to ask you, though, are tribal relations part of the crisis in Kenya or not?
Another 187 million lived in Africa, in places like Cairo, Egypt, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa, and Nairobi, Kenya.
Mr. HOLMES: I think like everybody else he's horrified by what we've seen happening in Kenya over the last month.
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In your testimony yesterday, you called for some specific steps that you would like to see the US and other world governments pursue to help resolve the crisis in Kenya.
And they're looking back and they're saying this dates back so many years, that a disputed election was just the catalyst, that we need to address things like ethnicity, power, privilege, equality - these are the deep-seated problems that Kenya has to deal with.
It would be like a double Fifa World Cup and Olympics because, apart from the main venue for the Games, Kenya would have to build at least six world-class stadiums to host the Olympic football matches alone.
Five are commercial ventures, including the overall winner, Bioneedle, and a Kenya-based social enterprise, Backpack Farm Agriculture Program, which sells tools and products like seeds and drip irrigation equipment to small commercial farmers in East Africa.
When Kenya's colonial government crumbled in 1963, Wambugu's father was rounded up--like so many young men--and trucked off to work on a white settler's farm.
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