- For a first time visitor to Kibera, Nothing sets the tiny social hall apart from the adjoining buildings. While inside, Mr Maxwell Okuto, an event facilitator taking the participants through warm up theater games, informs me that it is a makeshift film theater where residents sit on wooden benches to watch films after paying a few coins. “These games helps create a bond between people who may not have known each other before and this makes it easy for them to work together,” Mr. Okuto tells me about the games that remind me of my elementary school singing games. After a round of chanting and counting I find myself very eager to know what is coming next. When he later tells…

Barclays Bank in Kenya pretax profits grew 5 percent this year to become the group's global best performer due to strict lending discipline, Barclays' Global Head of Retail and Corporate Banking Fritz Seegers disclosed. - Seegers said the bank is therefore planning to use its Kenyan operation as the business centre for Africa. Kenya already provides a sizeable number of employees working in its various African operations from South Africa to Ghana, according to Seegers. He said the bank wants to grow the number towards 2000. Full of praises for the quality of the Kenyan university graduates, he urged Kenyan universities to remain focused in developing Kenyan human resource b…

Africa should expect more Korean government and investors' engagement with its countries in terms of aid and trade, the president of the Korean Foundation, Yim Sung-joon has said. - He said providing Official Development Assistance (ODA) to less developed countries is an important part of South Korea’s foreign policy framework. Sung-joon said that South Korea’s ODA has tripled in the last couple of years and it is keen on following the guidelines set by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an organization of 30 high income industrialized countries governed under the principals of democracy and free market economy. Speaking at the launch o…