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Yipe Weblog
http://yipe.wordpress.com
Specifically targeted at youth entrepreneurs, Yipe blog aims at exposing and breaking down the barriers youth enterprises face in starting and managing the business enterprises.
Recent Posts
Youth Disaffection: the elephant in the living room
This week both online and offline conversations have been revolving around Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23 year old engineering student who was apprehended as he tried to detonate explosives he carried onto a Christmas day transatlantic flight into...
Voices of Kenyan Youth on the Harmonized Draft Constitution
Introduction This is a memorandum by the youth of Kenya expressing the voices of the youth of Kenya after analyzing the harmonized draft constitution, presented to the Committee of Experts for review and consideration. The Youth Katiba Consultative...
Dictatorship more dangerous than climate change
By Alemayehu G. Mariam The inconvenient truth about Africa today is that dictatorship presents a far more perilous threat to the survival of Africans than climate change. The devastation African dictators have wreaked upon the social fabric and ecosy...
HIV/AIDS affects more than just the bottom line
A UNAIDS study in the year 2000 on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the Kenya predicted that the scourge would leave the Kenyan economy one-sixth smaller than it would have been in the absence of HIV/AIDS. Well, the pandemic has wreaked more havoc both on t...
Is Kazi kwa Vijana the way forward?
This week in Parliament, Prime Minister Raila Odinga made a statement on the Kazi kwa Vijana programme. Though he accepted that the initiative had weaknesses (mainly administrative), the Prime Minister stated that his ministry will integrate the impl...
Let’s Create a Safer World for Women
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