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After famine, now comes the flood. SEACOM is the first of three fiber-optic cables that will connect East Africa, via the Kenyan port of Mombasa, to the rest of the world. Analysts say that could lead to a more than 90% reduction in the cost of Internet access in years to come. The high price of using the Internet has up until now crippled the region's nascent tech sector, denying jobs to millions of well-educated young Africans. (Read: "Kenya's Blackboard Jungle...
...some businessmen hope to establish East Africa as an outsourcing center. Soon enough, instead of asking an operator in India to cancel your stolen credit card, you might get a Kenyan on the line. "It gets rid of the potential excuses for decision-makers not to consider Kenya, since we are now absolutely equivalent to anyone else in the world in terms of our connectivity," says Eric Nesbitt, operations manager for Kenyan call center KenCall. "If you consider Kenya as a rural part of the world and we have little dirt tracks, all of a sudden someone's building...
...Kenyan human-rights group alleged on July 17 that a dozen parliamentarians and seven ministers were involved in inciting, financing and participating in violence last year following Kenya's disputed December 2007 election. The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights listed 219 people and organizations as suspects in crimes against humanity after political violence killed nearly 1,300 and displaced more than a quarter of a million. "We got our information from Kenyans," says Florence Simbiri-Jaoko, the chairperson of the government-run body. "We have made recommendation for further investigations. Once these further investigations are carried out, through whichever...
...told American voters that his election as the first black President of goatherd ancestry and foreign upbringing could itself change geopolitical dynamics. Since his election, he has been working hard to make good on that promise, aggressively marketing his background. In Africa, he spoke about the colonialist mistreatment his Kenyan grandfather faced, and in Cairo he talked about his childhood in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. He presents himself internationally as he does domestically, as an embodiment of meritocratic achievement that can happen in free and open societies. "I have the blood of Africa within...
...Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga met his Somali counterpart, Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to discuss the seven-week onslaught by the Islamists that has killed hundreds, including several senior government figures, and displaced more than 100,000 - adding to the millions of Somalis already living as refugees and dependent on food aid. After the meeting, Sharmarke said, "In this critical time of our history, I think you might help. We are dealing with a threat that can engulf the entire region. Our security forces need military assistance, and we hope the world [will...