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Friday May 27, 2011

French tourist shot by bandits ‘stable’ BRIEFLY


NAIVASHA NAIVASHA
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT men had waylaid a convoy of we are pursuing the bandits be-
vehicles heading to Marsabit and cause they escaped with a lot of Notice issued over plan to 10 council askaris injured
A French tourist shot and
injured by armed bandits near
demanded valuables and money.
They stole a mobile phone and
items from the vehicles,” said Mr.
Muchangi.
bury 20 unclaimed bodies in fight with officers
Laisamis town on Wednesday is money in several currencies from An hour after the convoy was Naivasha residents yesterday flocked More than 10 Naivasha Municipal
recuperating at Cottage hospital the Frenchman. attacked, a Kenya Telkom ve- to the local district hospital’s mortu- Council askaris were injured yesterday
in Nanyuki. The OCPD said the man was hicle was also ambushed at the ary to look for bodies of their rela- during a fight with Administration
Police said he was in stable alone in his car when the bandits same spot and staff robbed of tives. This was after the Public Health police over a piece of land. The askaris
condition. attacked the convoy. valuables. Department issued a notice to bury led by mayor Paul Karanja had tried
Laisamis police chief Metawa The bandits also stole goods The police boss said robbery 20 unclaimed bodies. The bodies have to pull down structures at the AP lines
Muchangi said the bandits robbed from three lorries ferrying goods cases had shot up in the area. been lying there for the last seven but residents pelted them with stones.
the tourist of valuables before to Marsabit and Moyale. He said bandits mainly targeted months, forcing the Ministry of Pub- As the two groups fought, the officers
shooting him on the arm. “We could not estimate the private cars and unescorted trucks lic Health and Sanitation to issue the attacked with batons. Some askaris
Mr Muchangi said the armed value of the property stolen but plying the Isiolo-Moyale route. notice. were injured as they tried to escape.

BACKLOG | Drivers spend 16 hours

African Economic Research Consortium


Taxman sends
Consortium pour la Recherche Economique en Afrique

Industrialization and Structural Transformation in Africa more officials


to clear cargo
Industrial expansion remains critical for the development and structural Netherlands. Thereafter, active discussions by the participants made up of
transformation of most sub-Saharan African economies. The advantages of senior African policy makers, eminent economists from all over the world,
industrialization go beyond provision of manufactured goods and diversification development partners and researchers from Africa and beyond will take place.
of exports for modernization of society. Rapid and sustained industrialization
is an essential element in achieving Africa’s goals of accelerated development Concurrent sessions of the workshop start on Monday, May 30, 2011. They will
and poverty reduction. Industrialization is also key to increasing Africa’s feature 93 presentations of research proposals, work in progress, final reports
participation in world commerce and finance, thus providing the platform and PhD theses proposals. These will cover a wide range of topics that fit into
for enhancing the continent’s competitiveness in an increasingly globalized the focal areas of AERC’s thematic research programme: poverty, income Action comes after CAUSE
economy of the 21st century. distribution and food security; macroeconomic policies, investment and growth;
finance and resource mobilization; trade and regional integration; political truck drivers staged
Africa has a weak industrial base. Three key facts illustrate this low
industrialization. First, there are only a handful of countries where
economy, natural resource management and agricultural policy issues.
protest at delays due Power outage
manufacturing as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) exceeds 25 per
cent - the benchmark for considering a country as having achieved critical
The AERC will also play host to three back-to-back workshops during this
period at the same venue: to breakdown of blamed
threshold of industrial take-off. Second, the export composition of African
countries continues to be dominated by primary rather than processed or semi-
• The AERC-GDNet Policy Communications Workshop will be held on May
24-26, 2011. A total of 27 participants are expected. The objective of this system and weighing A technical glitch that
finished products and last the ratio of public expenditure and private investment
in scientific research and development remains diminutive as percentage of
workshop is to support researchers make an impact on policy decisions
with their research. The aim is to ensure that they identify the audience,
at point of loading disabled Kenya Revenue
Authority’s online tax
GDP in all African countries. adjust their message and use the appropriate channels to reach all the
relevant players
clearing system threatened
A majority of the population in Africa is engaged in agriculture, with economies
BY GITHUA KIHARA the supply of essential
involved in policy
in the very early formulation,
gkihara@ke.nationmedia.com commodities in the coun-
stages of structural try and regional markets.

M
adoption and
transformation. delivery. The ore Kenya Revenue
Important lessons researchers will Authority officials It emerged that a power
emerging from the East also be trained have been sent to outage paralysed KRA’s
Asian experience are on how to write the port of Mombasa to clear Simba system, compound-
that the transformation policy briefs from ing the cargo backlog
of the structure of a their work based
cargo backlog.
predominantly agrarian, Clearance delays were caused problem at the port of
on the project
semi-subsistence titeld by the recent breakdown of the Mombasa. The system was
economy cannot be Reproductive Simba system and a directive installed in 2005 to seal
achieved without Health, A section of participants during a biannual to weigh cargo at the point of loopholes through which
Resource persons attentively listen to substantial increases in Economic research workshop in Mombasa, Kenya
loading. billions of shillings in rev-
presentations in a recent biannual workshop agricultural productivity. Growth and
A mobile weighbridge that enue previously leaked.
Second, the structural Poverty Reduction in Africa.
transformation process • A joint AERC/AfDB, Brookings, UNU-WIDER project on Industrialization: Kenya National Highway Au-
must take advantage of the positive interactions between agricultural and Learning to Compete will also be held on May 26-28, 2011. thority recently introduced could even be more than 18,”
industrial development. • There will also be a workshop on Understanding the Links between outside Gate 18 has increased commissioner in charge of
Africa has a rich supply of natural resources and primary export products, but
Growth and Poverty on May 27-28, 2011. the number of trucks coming communications at KRA
only a tiny core of industrial skills. The stock of skills and technical knowledge to the port since each vehicle is Kennedy Onyonyi said.
Special sesssions will be conducted on various topics on different days:
needed to manage these industries has grown, but not rapidly enough to lead no longer carrying two 20-foot The truck drivers are
• Status of Women in the Economic Profession with Emphasis on
to substantial gains in efficiency. Though Africa has witnessed improved growth
Opportunities for Women in Research and Post-Graduate Training in containers as happened in the spending more than 16 hours,
rates in the last couple of years and its development prospects appear much past since this would lead to according to the chairman of
Economics by Julliet Elu, NEADE on May 30, 2011.
brighter, poverty reduction remains a major challenge. The good news is that overloading fines. the Heavy Commercial Vehicle
• Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills and Investments: A
industrialization can contribute to poverty reduction by increasing opportunities
for employment, skills acquisition, and increasing incomes.
joint AfDB/World Bank publication by Abebe Shimeles, AfDB on May 31, “The port has been expe- Workers Union, Mr Moham-
2011. riencing truck congestion med Bahero.
Due to the foregoing, Industrialization and Structural Transformation in Africa • Opening up to the World Bank: the World Bank’s Open data Initiative by
following the introduction The port is also experienc-
is the theme of the 34th plenary session of the African Economic Research Thomas Danielewitz, World Bank on May 24-26, 2011.
• Climate Change and Economic Development by Channing Arndt, UNU- of the weighbridge since a ing berthing constraints due
Consortium’s (AERC) Biannual Research Workshop, which opens at 9:00
am on Sunday. May 29, 2011 at the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. The WIDER transporter will now need to the rehabilitation of berth
session will feature four presentations by distinguished economists. Celestine to send two trucks to pick 18 that has been going on
Monga, World Bank, will start off the proceedings with a look at Igniting AERC is a leader in policy-oriented economic research in the continent, two 20-foot containers,” said since January this year, with
Structural Transformation in Africa. Next will be Industrialization for Structural and its biannual research workshops have become the largest gatherings Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) completion expected by the
Transformation in Africa: Role of the State by Ernest Aryeetey, University of professional economists in sub-Saharan Africa. The Consortium was communications manager end of this year.
of Ghana. The third paper, Can Africa Industrialize? will be by John Page, established in 1988 as a public not-for-profit organi≠zation devoted to
building capacity for economic policy research into problems pertinent to
Bernard Osero. Berth 18 will also be ex-
Brookings Institution, USA and the final paper on Size of Firms and Structural
Change will be presented by Måns Söderbom, University of Gothenburg. the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. This is carried out Last weekend, truck drivers tended, although it was
through two main programmes: research and training. In response to the protested for five hours outside supposed to have been done in
Discussions on these special needs of the region, the AERC Research Programme uses a flexible Gate 18 over delays. After the 2006. KPA has already started
papers will be led by approach to improve the technical skills of local researchers, allow for intervention by security per- the process in bid to handle
Akpan Ekpo, WAIFEM, regional determination of research priorities, strengthen national institutions sonnel, the ports authority and larger vessels at the port.
Nigeria, Machiko concerned with economic policy research, and facilitate closer ties between
researchers and policy makers. The Training Programme augments the pool
KRA, it was agreed that the Once the extension is com-
Nissanke, University of
London, UK, Channing of economic researchers in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting collaborative taxman should send 18 more pleted, the port will be able to
Arndt, University graduate programmes in economics – at both master’s and PhD levels – as officials to speed up clearing handle three ships instead of
of Copenhagen, well as improving the capacities of departments of economics and agricultural of goods. the current two, Mr Osero said,
Denmark and and applied economics in public universities. AERC is supported by donor “We have since sent to Mom- adding, there will be no backlog
Remco Oostendorp, governments, private foundations and international organizations. basa staff from other locations, by the end of this week.
Free University including Nairobi. The number By Tuesday, the yard had
Participants at a biannual workshop session of Amsterdam,
14,000 20-foot containers

14,000
For more information about this workshop or AERC, please contact: compared to 15,571 recorded
The Executive Director on Sunday.
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Deliveries to the local con-
Middle East Bank Towers, 3rd Floor, Milimani Road, tainer freight stations has not
Tel: (254-20) 273-4150 / 273-4157, Fax: (254-20) 273-4173 Number of 20-foot containers yet reached the expected level
exec.dir@aercafrica.org or communications@aercafrica.org in yard on Tuesday compared of 1,000. Some 744 deliveries
www.aercafrica.org to 15,571 on Sunday have been recorded.

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