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Sh6.9bn injection to keep transport plan on track – Business Daily Africa
Daily Nation Sh6.9bn injection to keep transport plan on trackBusiness Daily AfricaFour state corporations will be given Sh6.9 billion for infrastructure projects linking the port of Lamu to South Sudan. Fredrick Omondi By George Omondi (email the author) The Treasury will allocate Sh6.9 billion to four State corporations to build …Chinese firm offers to finance…
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Legend of the Lamu Port
By Margot Kiser Construction for the first three of twenty-one berths of the Lamu Port is slated to begin in November. This may not seem like ground-breaking news, but for a project that’s been in the pipeline since the 1970?s, it’d be one small step for Kenya, one giant leap for Africa. Yesterday I attended…
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Kenya bets on Lamu port despite worries
By Yara Bayoumy, REUTERS – Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:09pm GMT LAMU, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s ambitions to build a world-class port in its southern Lamu region would have a big payoff but also inflict irrevocable damage on the area’s image as a tourist paradise and on the livelihoods of its fishermen. The $23 billion…
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Community Land Rights Recognition Model Launching
Since the passage of the new constitution, I have been eagerly waiting for our land rights on the Coastal strip to be officially recognized. Out of all the laws passed in Kenya, the new Constitution and 2009 National Land Policy finally started chipping at the block of historical injustices faced at the Coast where all…
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How grandiose Lamu port project is alienating coastal communities from Kenya
By PAUL GOLDSMITH, Special Correspondent, East African Standard – Sunday, September 18 2011 at 19:00 The Kenya government’s plans to build a port in Magogoni linked by railroad to Nairobi date back to the early 1970s. The project reflected the fact that, as the crow flies, Lamu is closer to the capital than Mombasa. But while the…