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Where to get good wifi? Nairobi
2016-01-26 11:30:54| Wireless - Topix.net
The streets are constantly busy, much like the Bree or Noord taxi rank in Joburg when commuters are travelling to and from work. At 9.30pm you can still see small children with their mothers selling tomatoes in front of the grocery stores.
VIDEO: Outrage in Nairobi over bank freeze
2015-04-08 21:44:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Kenyan authorities have suspended the licences of 13 money transfer firms believed to be involved in funding al-Shabab.
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Head of UN climate change panel skips Nairobi meet amid sexual harassment allegations in India
2015-02-21 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Indian leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations of sexual harassment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said its chairman, R.K. Pachauri, would skip next week's plenary session in the Kenyan capital "because of issues demanding his attention in India." While the organization refused to elaborate, Pachauri is being investigated after a 29-year-old...
RK Pachauri to skip Nairobi climate meet after woman complains of sexual harassment
2015-02-21 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deccan Chronicle: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC has said its chairman RK Pachauri has expressed his inability to go to Nairobi next week for chairing its plenary session in the wake of a complaint of sexual harassment against him. "The Chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra K Pachauri, has informed the IPCC that he will be unable to chair the plenary session of the IPCC in Nairobi next week because of issues demanding his attention in India," IPCC said in a statement in Delhi. This comes after...
London, L.A., Beijing, Delhi, Nairobi Is Smog an Inevitable Urban Growing Pain?
2015-02-15 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Gardiner Harris has a detailed story in The Times on what could be seen as New Delhis race to outdo Beijing in the deadly flows of air pollution from its traffic, industries, garbage dumps and kitchens. The soupy air is, on closer look, deadlier than that in Chinas cities, he reports: Delhis air is the worlds most toxic in part because of high concentrations of PM2.5, particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter that is believed to pose the greatest health risk because it penetrates...
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