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2010, March 17: President Mwai Kibaki hold talks with His Highness The Aga Khan who called on him at his Harambee House office, Nairobi.

UN employees who have Aids will benefit from a comprehensive medical and health care programme at the Aga Khan Hospital. In a deal between Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi Klaus Topfer and Mr Stephen Batts, the Aga Khan Health Service in East Africa chief executive, the employees will be advised on the use of anti-retroviral drugs and nutrition.They and their families will also will benefit from counselling services.

Speaking during the inauguration of the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa, His Highness the Aga Khan, rooted for the expansion of higher education opportunities to absorb the thousands of students who graduate from secondary school. He illustrated the point by citing figures indicating that only about 15 per cent of high school leavers ever proceed to university in many developing countries. In Kenya, less than 10 per cent of school leavers go on to university.

Uganda is going ahead with plans to privatise the Nile Hotel International Ltd (NHIL) despite a court battle between the government and Tunisia's Tahar Fourati.This is the second time the hotel is being concessioned by the Privatisation Unit. The hotel complex was in October 1994 partly sold to Tahar Fourati. A dispute ensued and Tahar Fourati lodged a case to have their money refunded.

Your Excellency, President Mwai Kibaki,Honourable Minister for Industry, Mukisa Kituyi
Honourable Ministers,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen

Kenya?s President Mwai Kibaki on Saturday officially opened the US$7.2 million Alltex plant in the Export Processing Zone at Athi River in the presence of Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili community.
Alltex is a state-of-the-art facility that has created employment for over 2,000 Kenyans, over 80% of them women.
The plant, one of the largest textile factories in the zone and the only one that is purpose-built, has set benchmarks in technology, training and productivity.

Kenya will host a major international media meeting in June.
It will be the 52nd Congress of the International Press Institute, a global network of editors, media executives and leading print and broadcasting journalists, and will be held over four days - June 1 to 4 - in Nairobi.
It will also be the third time for Nairobi to host the annual IPI event.
Speaking at the Congress's media launch yesterday, the IPI Kenya host committee announced it would be opened by President Mwai Kibaki.

One thousand new jobs will be created when Alltex EPZ Limited completes its Sh214 million (US$2.86 million) phase II expansion project this month.This garment manufacturing factory at the Athi River Export Processing Zone's has an annual output of 3.5 million garment pieces. It employs 1,200 Kenyans most of whom are women.