...Kenya’s Nairobi Southern Bypass, a 28.6km stretch has become the second road project in East Africa to run into problems. Designed to the Class A International Trunk Road Standard, the route has been targeted by international environmental pressure groups following Tanzania’s Serengeti Highway, which was derailed last year. The US$208 million bypass will link Mombasa Road, near Ole Sereni Hotel, through Nairobi National Park into Kikuyu town, on the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway at Rironi. The bypass is said to be an answer to the capital city’s dilemma of being located in the confluence of an international trunk road that is subjected to heavy transit traffic congestion, which cuts through it for lack of a bypass or ring road, says a report. Two service roads, a 6km Mombasa- Lang’ata road and 2.5km Lang’ata Road-Ngong’ Forest Road will be added to the bypass project. Both service roads have the same cross-section of 0.5m soil shoulder; 2m hard shoulder; 2×3.5m carriageway; +0.5m soil shoulder. The bypass will be dual four-lane carriage ways on 22.5m wide subgrade with a design speed of 80km/hour. China Road and Bridge Construction Corporation (CRBC) has been awarded the engineering procurement and construction contract for the bypass link, which is considered critical in easing transport in Nairobi and to allow the movement of cargo from the port of Mombasa to neighbouring countries of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. However, opposition to the project has been mounting...
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...PLO. In 1998, the US embassy in Nairobi was bombed, as was the Israeli-owned Paradise hotel four years later. In 2013, the militant group Al-Shabaab killed over 80 people at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall. Contents * 1 Background * 2 Major incidents * 2.1 1975 Nairobi bombing & J M Kariuki murder * 2.2 1980 Norfolk Hotel bombing * 2.3 1998 Embassy bombing * 2.4 2002 Kikambala bombing * 2.5 2012 Al-Shabaab attacks * 2.6 Westgate mall shooting * 3 Other incidents related to terrorism * 4 Anti-Terrorism legislation * 5 Dynamics * 6 See also * 7 References Background In July 1976, during the Operation Entebbe hostage crisis, Kenya briefly served as a refuelling stage for the Israeli C-130 Hercules transport planes on their way back to Israel after the Entebbe raid. Perceived as Western interest and Israeli support, this incident led to anger from Islamic extremists.[citation needed] Major incidents 1975 Nairobi bombing & J M Kariuki murder In early 1975, the first bombs to strike independent Kenya exploded. In February, there were two blasts in central Nairobi, inside the Starlight nightclub and in a travel bureau near the Hilton hotel. The day after the second explosion, JM Kariuki revealed in Parliament that his car had been hit "by what seemed to be bullets".There were rumours of a botched attempt on his life. They were followed by a more serious blast in a Nairobi bus on 1 March, which killed 30...
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...resource strategy………………………………… Incentives and employment agreement………………….. Supporting advisors and services………………………… 5.0 OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTON PLANS Manufacturing and operational plans…………………….. Plant location and facilities………………………………. Capital equipment plans…………………………………. Requirement of service………………………………… Production and operation process……………………….. Strategy and plans……………………………………….. Regulatory and legal issues……………………………… Major difficulties and risks………………………………. Executive Summary. Pleasure Parking Limited, a parking bay service provider shall be registered in Kenya in January 2009. The company shall be located at Amazon house situated behind Kenyatta Avenue Nairobi Main Street. Currently Nairobi city council (NCC) the main parking service...
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...CURRICULUM VITAE [pic] [pic] P.O. BOX 62000 - 00200, NAIROBI KENYA e-mail: wguyo@jkuat.ac.ke PHONE: +254-722-593525 warioguyo@gmail.com PERSONAL INFORMATION Sex: Male Date of birth: 11th.May.1975 Nationality: Kenyan ID No. 12754448 Marital Status: Married Religion: Muslim CAREER OBJECTIVE To work in a challenging and dynamic position in an area of Professional Human Resources training, development and Knowledge management, with a view of integrating creativity, team work and research to provide practical way forward that will map comprehensive strategies for human capacity development PERSONAL PROFILE • Good communication and interpersonal skills with ability to relate to people at all levels. • Ready to learn and take instructions. • Strong team leadership character, trustworthy and reliable personality. • Excellent endurance and ability to work under pressure and dead lines. • Able to mix and socialize quickly with people of diverse cultures and background. • Strong ambitions for success with equally focused determination and stamina to achieve. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Date Institution/Award 2007 – 2012 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, School for Human Resource Development. Doctor of Philosophy in Human Resource Management 2005 – 2007 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and...
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...An Analysis Report on Barriers to Globalization and External Factors Affecting Kenya Airways Professor: Student Name: Date of submission: Executive Summary Stiff competition, technological changes and the political and legal environment are the main factors determining the success of a company operating in the airline industry. Kenya Airways is subject to these factors and must find the best solution to help mitigate the adverse effects of these factors. It will help improve efficiency, effectiveness and the competitiveness of the company. Liberalization of many economies accompanied by globalization has turned the face of doing business across the globe. It has led to the essence of competition among organization for prosperity and survival. Technological aspects have also improved communication across the globe leading to integrated systems connecting companies and businesses. The report is an overview of the external environmental factors affecting Kenya Airways that is in the service sector in the Airline industry. The service sector requires up to date technology and is easily affected by the external environmental factors. These factors relate to the political stability, legal environment, social, cultural well-being, and the state of technology. Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………….2 1.0 Introduction………………………………………………………………….4 2.0 Task 1 ………………………………………………………………………….5 2.1 Macro Environment analysis for Kenya Airways…………………………………...
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...Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Assignment 1 Executive summary The Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation is a state cooperation in Kenya which was established by the act of parliament in 1961 and named as Voice of Kenya and later Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) in 1964 by another act of parliament .One of the core objectives of the corporation was to offer radio and television communication services to the nation and was the main media house that the government used to convey official information to the nation. This included informing the public of the government developmental strategies so that the entire nation could back up the government to achieve its goals (Godard, 123-167). For a long time, the cooperation enjoyed state protection against competition until recent when the government finally lifted the barriers in the communication industry. Today, the main challenge facing the Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation is serious competition from other upcoming media houses such as Citizen Radio and Television, provided by the Royal Media Services and owned by a private investor called S.K Masharia. Since the corporation is owned and financed by the central government, it has been at a stable position in the competitive market due to the low quality services offered since it was not motivated by making profit. Today, the corporation has lost many customers to other media house and still faces a bevy of challenges such as workers strikes and...
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...|Request of References |United Nations Development Programme |[pic] | |For New Appointees |UNDP Somalia |Somalia | | |UN Avenue, Gigiri | | | |P O Box 28832, 00200, Nairobi Kenya | | | |Tel: (254) 20 4002400 | | This is kept strictly confidential for use by the Office of Human Resources only and will not be divulged to candidates concerned. Name: Mohamed N Isse Position applied for: Humanitarian Affairs Officer (NO.A), Dhobley Required field of experience: Master’s Degree or equivalent in political science, sociology, law or international relations or related field OR a first level university degree with 2 years’ experience in the relevant field may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Relevant professional experience, preferably in complex emergency and inter-agency contexts, dealing with relief and transitional issues. 1. Please briefly describe the nature of your supervisory responsibility/professional relationship with this applicant: | ...
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...tasks assigned in order to advance my career by using excellent leadership, motivational and networking skills through both on-the-job experience and additional training to accomplish set goals and objectives that will contribute to the continued success of the company. Personal Details * Year of Birth : 1994 * Marital Status: Single Education and Professional Qualification: * Bachelors in Purchasing and Supplies Management, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2012-2014 * Certified Public Accountants level one, Vision Institute of Professionals, (Nairobi), 2011-May 2011 * Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, A-(Minus), Highway Secondary School, 2007-2010 Key Professional Skills and Competencies: * Strong knowledge of basic principles and procedures of procurement * Deep knowledge of principles of business letter writing and basic report preparation * Ability to work efficiently and...
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...University of Nairobi MBA Project List 2011 CANDIDATE | PROJECT TITLE | NDIRANGU SAMUEL NJOGO | A SURVEY INTO THE CAUSES OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS IN CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN NAIROBI | NDIANG’UI DOROTHY WAIRIMU | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIVIDEND GROWTH AND RISK FOR COMPANIES LISTED AT THE NSE | MURIITHI ERIC | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES AND FINANCIAL AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF INVESTMENT BANKS IN KENYA | NICHOLAS KIPYEGOMEN CHEPKOIWO | FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMERGING CAPITAL MARKETS. THE CASE OF NAIROBI STOCK EXCHANGE | KIPKURUI KIMOSOP | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF INSURANCE COMPANIES IN KENYA | OMENDA CHRISTOPHER ODHIAMBO | EFFECT OF STOCK SPLITS ON STOCK LIQUIDITY OF COMPANIES QUOTED AT THE NSE | GEORGE MARTIN NZIVE KASYOKA | THE USE OF STRATEGIC POSITIONING TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AT SAFARICOM LIMITED | MUTIE PETER KIOKO | RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIOR PERIOD DIVIDENDS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF FIRMS LISTED AT THE NSE | EVANS ODHIAMBO OYIEYO | BALANCE SCORE CARD AS A STRATEGIC MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN KENYA | SAMBA STEPHEN MIDEGA | INVESTIGATION OF CAPACITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SERVICE QUALITY: CASE OF NAIROBI SUPERMARKETS. | LUCY MUTHEU KIILU | CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE IN GARMENT FACTORIES AT THE ATHI RIVER EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES, KENYA | JENIFFER N. MULI | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSE PRICES AND MORTGAGE...
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...Educational Research and Reviews Vol. 5 (5), pp. 263-272, May, 2010 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/ERR ISSN 1990-3839 © 2010 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The role of guidance and counseling in promoting student discipline in secondary schools in Kenya: A case study of Kisumu district Jack O. Ajowi and Enose M. W. Simatwa Department of Educational Management and Foundations, Maseno University, Kenya. Accepted 16 March, 2010 This study examined the role of guidance and counseling in promoting student discipline in secondary schools in Kisumu, District, Kenya. The study population comprised 4,570 students, 65 head teachers, 65 deputy head teachers, and 65 heads of Guidance and Counseling Department from all the 65 secondary schools in the District. Out of this, a sample of 22 head teachers, 22 deputy head teachers, 22 heads of Guidance and Counseling and 916 students from 22 secondary schools was selected through the simple random sampling technique. Two instruments were used to collect data for the study. These were interview schedule and a questionnaire. The data collected through questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistics in form of frequencies and percentages. While data collected using interview schedule were audio taped and transcribed into themes, categories and sub-categories as they emerged from the data. They were analyzed using summary Tables for the purpose of data presentation and interpretation. The findings...
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...581-00515 Nairobi, Kenya. Telephone office 7621181 Mobile: 254-0722899851 or 0734899851 Email fbochieng@gmail.com I am currently working as a Budget/Accounts Assistant with Unicef-Kenya Country Office from 10th April-2007 to date and also seven years experience from Catholic Relief Services-Sudan Program as a Grants Accountant. I am a fully Qualified Certified Public Accountant of Kenya and hold a Bachelor of Commerce Degree-Finance Option at Catholic University of Eastern Africa and currently pursuing an MBA-in Financial Management. In my current work at Unicef Kenya Office, I have been able to use and understand Unicef’s Programme Management System-(ProMs) and SAP, in my daily duties I manage & monitor the administration(support budget) & cross sectoral budgets expenditures, provide financial estimates to the regional office as to our budget requirement needs, processing budget allotments and movement of funds from one item to another, preparation of budget status & progress reports for both the cross sectoral and Support budget from ProMs, monitoring salary budgets requisitions for all the sections staff, preparing journal vouchers to correct inaccurate entries, to transfer funds between different annual work plans & liquidate obligations no longer required after updating the OBO(Outstanding budget obligations) report, assist in...
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...frica’s East A Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System Journal Article Review Stephen Underwood, Instructor PHSC 210 Elements of Earth Science March 23, 2012 Introduction The East African Rift System (EARS) seems to be one of the most amazing geographic studies of the world. A rift can be defined as a split in the earth’s surface that becomes wider over time. In this case, the EARS has developed into two plates or branches, which have been named the Nubian Plate and the Somalian Plate. The two branches include a west branch, which consists of the African Great Lakes, and a nearly parallel east branch, which divides Kenya from north to south and enters Tanzania. Because the two branches have become so distinct, there is a common misconception that there is only a single rift in East Africa. However, geologists have discovered a series of rifts in Africa. Thus, the growing number of rifts has become of interest to many geologists and scientist. Brief Overview and Main Points In this article, James Wood and Alex Guth discuss the geographic and physical structure of the East African Rift System as well as the underlying causes of rift formation. The East African Rift (EAR) involves a fracture that has resulted in two branches-- a western branch, consisting of the East African Great Lakes, and an Eastern branch, dividing Kenya completely and entering Tanzania. The EAR has been grouped with other rifts, especially the Ethiopian rift, to form the East African Rift...
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...Kaitlyn Sebastian Karyn Blixen I am Karen Blixen, a Danish author and the wife of a Danish Baron. I moved to Kenya in 1914 and established a coffee plantation, hiring hundreds of the natives, the Kikuyus, to tend to my crops and take care of my house. Unfortunately, I am only one of the few who treat them with kindness and pay them very well I do this because I want to help their situation. Most African workers have terrible working AND living conditions and get payed half of their European counterparts. Not only that but Africans also do not have many personal freedoms or rights because of racism. The Europeans called for an apartheid or complete social segregation which did not allow Africans to be involved in any of their successes. I believe this treatment is incredibly unfair and unjust because this deprives the beautiful culture of the Africans and the moral rights of human beings in general. They treated them as if they cannot take care of themselves. Yes, Africa is improving, but really, it’s the Europeans that are only benefitting themselves because they do not let Africans share its benefits. They cannot share the benefits of their own country. I later wrote a book called Out of Africa in 1937, depicting my encounters and experiences while I was living in Kenya. The Africans were very friendly and worked very hard. They deserve to be treated equally. Imperialism’s benefits to a country does not outweigh the fact that human beings are being greatly mistreated...
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...Amimo I hold a voluminous potential of career skills and writing experience. After achieving a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Kisumu Polytechnic in 1999, in Kisumu City. I entered the workplace in the engineering field of building and construction in a small town known as Kericho town. At the same time, I was involved in active volunteering, for several local schools, working with locally elected representatives, and participating in several community led self-help groups to preserve and reclaim our surrounding which had gone through economic hard times and were experiencing poverty and white-collar crime. In 2006, I moved my family to Nairobi City where I started my own academic writing business, which I have managed successfully for over 6 years. To broaden the magnitude of services rendered by the writing business, I joined Nairobi University in 2008 and studied a Diploma in Computer Science, earning my Diploma Certificate, in December 2009. My computer training prepared me to design, develop, and implement website development, graphic design, digital technologies and writing knowledge with respect to freelance work. I presently use this training to formulate and employ technology to the freelance writing business. The prosperous account as a self-employed freelance person highlights, the organizational and supervisory capabilities and talents I possess in freelance writing and clients relations. Clients come in a diversity of forms and sizes, many are easy to...
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...Neil J. Hunsinger Sonia Weeks LUO 201420 PHSC 210-D05 4/18/14 Journal Article Review #2 I. Introduction Discussing the East African Rift System, Alex Guth and James Wood have written “East Africa’s Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System”. In this piece they discuss from a geological standpoint what a rift system, how they form, and what exactly the East African Rift System is comprised of. Both of these individuals are qualified to speak on this topic as they are with Michigan Technological Institute, and Mr. Wood has his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. II. Overview and Main Points Africa is an amazing continent with a vast amount of land for wild animals, as well as being a dream for geologists. To start it is important to understand what a rift system is (quote textbook on rift). As the article discusses, in the east African region of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda this phenomenon is at its greatest height on full display. The most well known and well aged rift is in Ethiopia and is rightfully named the “Ethiopian Rift”. There is also the “Albertine Rift” which along with the Ethiopian Rift makes up the East African Rift. What makes up the entire system are the East African Rift and the “Kenya Rift”. The latter rift is also known as the “Gregory Rift” which is named after the first geologist that mapped it in the early 1900’s. The next logical question becomes one of how do these rifts form, where do they come from? “One popular model for the...
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