Word: nairobi
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Hannah Njeri may not know much about the intricacies of global trade, but she does know the power of "free marketing," as she calls it. Njeri, 45, sells vegetables outside the gas station on the Nairobi street where I live. Every morning she collects a few tomatoes, onions or beans from her tiny plot and spends the rest of the day selling what she can to passers-by and people who stop for petrol. Margins are small: Hannah makes just a few dollars a day, which she uses to help put her children through school. She would like...
...consultants will have plenty to look into. Investors routinely factor in funds to cover the bribes they know they will be forced to pay; schools help students cheat in national exams; well-connected officials are granted public land. Last year, Nairobi City Council officials conducting a headcount of employees turned up hundreds of "ghost" workers who collected paychecks but were not officially employed. Even as City Hall called the investigation a success it was revealed that headcount forms had been fraudulently sold to unofficial workers hoping to escape detection. "The results are there for everybody to see," says Gachukia Nyaga...
...also a fact that these families will get more money from charities and the government combined than anyone has so far received after the Oklahoma City bombing or the 1998 bombing of the Nairobi embassy. For that matter, if these victims had been killed in a drive-by shooting, they probably would not have received more than a few thousand dollars from state victim-compensation funds...
...also a fact that these families will get more money from charities and the government combined than anyone has so far received after the Oklahoma City bombing or the 1998 bombing of the Nairobi embassy. For that matter, if these victims had been killed in a drive-by shooting, they probably would not have received more than a few thousand dollars from state victim-compensation funds...
...Sept. 11 was merely the continuation on a larger scale of what terrorists have been doing to the U.S. and its allies for years. Israelis suffer smaller-scale bombings on a nearly weekly basis, and Americans have faced similar attacks on their embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi and on a navy vessel in the port of Aden...