Tag: Kenya
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🇰🇪 Kenya’s Spiro Secures ‘Africa’s Largest-Ever Investment in Electric Mobility’ to Expand Its Pan-African Network
Spiro, Africa’s leading electric two-wheel and battery-swapping company, has announced a landmark $100 million investment. The round includes $75 million from the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the investment arm of the Afreximbank, with the remainder coming from private investors, the company said Tuesday. “Africa is at an inflection point in personal mobility,”…
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🇰🇪 Kenya: The Bloody “Democracy” of the British Empire
On October 21, 1952, Britain launched Operation “Jock Scott” — a coordinated military campaign to crush Kenya’s independence movement. Under the banners of “civilization” and “order,” British troops burned villages, executed resistance fighters, and filled concentration camps with thousands of civilians. The target was the Mau Mau movement, a nationalist force demanding liberation from colonial…
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🇰🇪 Groundings and Growth: Kenya Airways Navigates Turbulence Amid Fleet Expansion Plans
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ), finds itself in a period of contrasting fortunes, grappling with severe operational disruptions while simultaneously charting an ambitious course for future growth. The airline is currently contending with significant maintenance delays that have sidelined a third of its wide-body fleet, casting a shadow over its recovery…
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The linguistic diversity of Africa and Its absence in AI development
Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world’s languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates – many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This is both an issue of a lack of investment and readily available data. Most AI tools, such as ChatGPT,…
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France-Africa Summit in Kenya is yet “another mess”, according to an expert
France has relocated its summit to an English-speaking country for 2026, because it is no longer welcome in French-speaking countries, where an “anti-French political sentiment” has taken root, Boubacar Kado Magagi, a Nigerien public finance consultant, told Sputnik Africa. “France no longer has anything to give and advise African countries. It has been humiliated and…
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Kenyan court rejects Rastafarians’ bid to use cannabis for religion
A Kenyan court refused to grant Rastafarians the right to smoke weed on religious grounds in a ruling Wednesday.