Kenya Youth Empowerment and Employment Initiative
Recent Headlines in Kenya about Youth
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Museveni watch out, the youth will change
The Independent “Given the challenges faced by the youth in labour markets, success in pursuing employment for young people will require long-term concerted actions spanning a wide range of policies and programmes,” The report listed Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, ... |
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Young activists share ideas for cutting pollution
Contra Costa Times ... the 17-year-old traveled from Nairobi, Kenya, to Long Beach to do some trash talking. Chelanga was one of more than 100 students from 14 countries who gathered at the Hotel Maya for the three-day Plastics Are Forever International Youth Summit. ... |
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Kenya: Makadara MP Sonko Tells Youth to Take Over in 2012
AllAfrica.com Makadara MP Gedion Mbuvi brought Machakos town to a standstill in a visit where he called for a youth revolution in the next general elections. Mbuvi attended a church service at the African brotherhood church in Kwa Mutisya church in Machakos town ... Kenya MP fight for right to wear bling |
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Togetherness Supreme: Kenyan Youth, Hipness and Hope on Screen
Huffington Post (blog) Togetherness Supreme leaves its viewers in the aftermath of the violence and shows the hero Kama devoting himself to the Kibera youth. The film ends on a redemptive note and invites viewers to look toward Kenya's future. Indeed, reports on the 2010 ... |
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Kenya: Ruling Elite 'Wary of Youth Meetings'
AllAfrica.com Shortly after he delivered the message, President Kibaki pointed out - "rather vaguely" - that there were concerns about the US support for youth groups. But "before a discussion could take place", the envoy says in a secret cable to Secretary of State ... Sh3.6b US project to edge out old Kenyan leaders |
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School ranking re-introduced in KCSE
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Ranking of schools in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary education exam has been re-introduced three year's after its abolition in a move that was aimed at reducing unfair competition among schools. The ministry of education was then concerned that ... |
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Highlights from YouthSave's Multi-Stakeholder Learning Exchange
New America Foundation (blog) Getting youth to participate in financial education opportunities is difficult. Bilha Maina, Project Manager for FSD in Kenya, maintained that youth need a “nudge” to saving and participating in financial education. This “nudge” can come from providing ... |
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Kenyans collectively sing national anthem worldwide in call for unity
CNN International Citizens in the nation and other parts of the world took a break at 1 pm Kenyan time (5 am ET) to collectively sing the hymn. Drivers pulled over on the side of the roads while crowds gathered at malls and busy intersections to sing the anthem. ... |
 Daily Nation |
Al-Shabaab warns of Kenya terror attack
Daily Nation “We are aware of Kenyan youth being lured by promises of large sums of money to go and fight alongside al-Shabaab in Somalia,” Department of Defence Spokesman Bogita Ongeri said on Sunday. “We cannot allow the militia nor their associates on our soil, ... |
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Kenya: Political Bickering Holding Back Progress On Agenda Four Reforms
AllAfrica.com Agenda 4 also tackles youth unemployment, poverty and regional development imbalances. One of the goals under this is to generate an average of 740000 new jobs each year, but there is no data to show if this has been achieved. ... |
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United States Aid to Kenya: Regional Security and Counterterrorism Assistance ...
Student Pulse For example, it became a presumed belief that several main factors affecting Islamic radicalization are underdevelopment, poverty, and high levels of youth unemployment (Lind and Howell 2008). Kenya possesses all of the above characteristics to a large ... |
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Wafalme's 'Me And My Bike': Teens From Kenya Slums Rap About Bicycles (VIDEO)
Huffington Post "Me And My Bike" won the $8000 Passion Pictures Best Film and Artists Project Earth Youth Visions award. "Me And My Bike" is a video created by Wafalme, a group of inspired Kenyan teens who communicate various messages through hip-hop. ... |
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KENYA: Fading hopes of jobless youths
AfricaNews The government has made many attempts to help the Kenyan youth to engage in economically viable activities. One such effort is the introduction of the Youth Enterprise Fund (YEP) which was established in 2006 with the purpose of reducing unemployment ... |
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Kenyan Leaders must have their priorities right
The Standard Kenyan youth are simply tired and it is time we unite to push for an overhaul in Kenya's leadership. The old guards are taking us for a ride from what I have been reading in the press regarding appointments by President Kibaki to key constitutional ... Uhuru maintains speaker's ruling defective Kenya: Marende's Ruling On List Receives Backing |
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The ticking time-bomb of jobless youth
Daily Nation By ESMOND SHAHONYAPosted Sunday, February 20 2011 at 18:34 During the launch of the Kenya Youth Empowerment and Employment Initiative in March last year, the President noted that the main challenge facing the country is how to engage its jobless ... |