EDITORIAL
31-07-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo
SOLIDARITY
30-07-2017 by Gianfranco Ranieri
HELP THEM AT HOME... it seems that now all the european parties have found, for a few more votes, the solution that should always be the most logical and sensible. We of Karibuni have really started helping home since we were born, we have built schools where today more than 5,000 children are studying every day, health care dispensaries and four local doctors supported by us visit hundreds of people each month.
AMBIENTE
30-07-2017 by redazione
Even Malindi has celebrated the Rangers World Day and confirmed the spirit of collaboration between the Kenya Wildlife Service and the town's foreign community.
In the presence of Senior Warden Jane Gitau, KWS met at the Malindi Marine Park, and before lunch with actual rangers, honoraries and employees, he focused on the work situation of recent months and how to improve on Protection of nature and animal species.
VOLI
27-07-2017 by redazione
Everyone is flying back to Kenya.
Airlines, driven by the great demand for business travel and the reborn tourist interest for one of the most sought after safari destinations in the Continent, have resumed their destination in Nairobi, as well as charters reevaluating flights from Europe on Mombasa.
EVENTS
27-07-2017 by redazione
An entire day, from afternoon to late night, to show Malindi the artistic spirit of many young people and local creativity.
The first edition of this year's "Malindi International Art Extravaganza" will be held from 3 PM in the open space of the National Museum of Malindi (behind Uhuru Garden).
EVENTS
26-07-2017 by redazione
A weekly aperitif in Malindi's paradise for well-being.
The Leopard Point Luxury Beach Resort opens the doors to external and resident tourists every Friday evening starting this week to share the beauty of the place in the most extreme and charming bay of Malindi, and the philosophy of a resort suite born from 'Idea to offer pleasures in tune with this corner of Africa, in the sign of nature, land resources and creativity.
MY POINT
26-07-2017 by Willem Shneider
We are happy to receive and publish the words of a Dutch citizen who spends several months a year at Kikambala, the village just a few miles from Mtwapa, on the outskirts of Mombasa, where the brutal robbery that led to the death of an Italian woman and her husband's injury.
"I have read carefully what you wrote on your very useful portal and i agree only partially. Mtwapa's description is almost true.
EDITORIAL
25-07-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo
It happens every time (and fortunately the times are very few, on the Kenyan media coast every three years), to a terrific news story about our fellow countrymen, are paired with pages of common and excursus on "tragic Kenya", Come Titled a daily newspaper of Belpaese, of this "Violent Africa".
Film titles that capture the eye and have to go to parade in one direction forever: "You who complain about Italy, look at what goes on abroad, especially in those places that sell you as paradises of serenity and security ".
23-07-2017 by redazione
The suspicion that doing so right now can be an electoral move that moves a very small percentage of votes, is spontaneous.
It is in fact that what many Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi Kenyans have been asking for and which was in the air has finally been realized.
Kenya's Asians have been recognized as the forty-eighth tribe of the nation.
NEWS
23-07-2017 by redazione
For the first time since the beginning of the election campaign in Kenya, opposition candidate Raila Odinga surpassed outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta in the polls of Infotrak.
This is the polling polling company right in Kenyatta, the same as last February, which even made it ten long.
LATEST NEWS
23-07-2017 by redazione
A 71-year-old Italian woman, Maria Laura Satta, was killed during a robbery in a private home, a very secluded villa in Kikambala, not far from Mombasa. During the robbery that occurred yesterday morning, the elderly woman, Luigi Scassellati, was also seriously injured, which for reasons still to be clarified could have seen his assailants jump over the wall.
EDUCAZIONE
22-07-2017 by redazione
This year, the second quarter of the schools will also start.
The fact that schools in Kenya are closed, instead of three months in summer as in Europe, one month every three, in April, August and December, is one of the reasons why national elections take place in August.
ENVIRONMENT
22-07-2017 by redazione
The efforts made so far to ensure water to Tsavo National Park and its ecosystem may not be enough.
The closest savannah to the Kenya coast threatens to extinction in 15 years unless seriously created irrigation systems and new dams.
Natural water sources, Tsavo, Voi and Bur rivers are drying out, Jipe Lake, which was once permanent and now seasonal, has lost 10 meters of depth over the years.
HEALTH
21-07-2017 by redazione
Following the contract of Silicon Savannah in Kenya by an Italian company, Maltauro, an Italian-based integrated design company, Politecnica, was commissioned to build the East African Kidney Institute's Center of Excellence in Nairobi, A modern hospital, which should become the reference point for urology and nephrology throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
LATEST NEWS
21-07-2017 by redazione
This could be the latest attempt by the NASA opposition alliance to postpone national elections in Kenya, set for August 8th, and it failed.
The faction headed by Raila Odinga, who has been gaining approval over the past few weeks after being long gone for polls, has asked for the unconstitutionality of the possible manual vote scrutiny in case of malfunction of the electronic system.
PLACES
20-07-2017 by redazione
Great restyiling for Papa Remo Beach, Watamu's historic organized beach that reopens on Thursday, July 20th for the season.
What will jump to your eyes now is the leap of quality elegance with white to make it master. White in the structures and finishes that will evoke changing fabrics and the new exterior furnishing, which is enriched with two comfortable cement sofas with colored pillows.
PROMOTION
20-07-2017 by redazione
The second issue of "What's Best in Kilifi County", produced by the Italian graphic art studio Artemysia and co-ordinated by us at Malindikenya.net, has been released in recent days, in collaboration with the Kenya Tourist Board, THR, Kenya Airport Authority and The Fly540 and SAX airlines.
FLIGHTS
19-07-2017 by redazione
The charter company TUI Nederlands, an affiliate of the great German tour operator, announced that it will resume charter flights from Amsterdam for years to Mombasa for next season.
Flights are already scheduled and bookable from next November and should be bi-weekly for all European winter.
NEWS
19-07-2017 by redazione
We continue to say: a bit of time for this part for Italian fugitives in Kenya: the collaboration between the two police, between the magistrates and the foreign ministries is leading to research and capture of all the Elements that for years have been safe in the African country.
Today is the case of a pluriomicide already sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime committed four years ago and has since disappeared.
NEWS
18-07-2017 by redazione
Two or three days without Facebook, Twitter and other social media in Kenya.
This is the solution that the Government, through the Communications Authority, may take from August to the day of the results, presumably on the 10th, to prevent misinformation, faked news, and other manipulations that could create tensions in the country.
17-07-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo
For Kenyans "waiting" is a word that smells infinite.
But their religion is hope, their life is hope.
For whoever believes life is awaited; Why bother to see the end?
So even yesterday Malindi consumed the usual long wait of the event.
The program was to see and hear President Uhuru Kenyatta in the election campaign in Malindi.
NEWS
17-07-2017 by redazione
The visit for electoral purposes of the President Kenyan emerging and nominating Uhuru Kenyatta to Malindi was not only the last attempt to earn a little more votes and hope for a miracle.
The North Coast of Kenya, as has always been known as a feud of opposition and cordially hostile to kikuyu, and this year's voting projections are no exception, but the Jubilee Party, which has strong candidates like the former mayor of Best Malindi, Gideon Mung'aro, aspiring governor, is trying to persuade the giriama and the muslims.
NEWS
17-07-2017 by redazione
The Great Migration Show in Kenya wins big on fears of violent elections.
At least this is what the figures say in August are full lodges, feral safari agencies and large influx of tourists from all over the world to enjoy the most engaging period of the year of equatorial savannah.
FREDDIE'S CORNER
15-07-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo
Watamu the beautiful.
Malindi the magic.
Watamu the young and sparkling.
Ancient Malindi but still interesting.
I like to imagine the two resorts of Kenya as two mixed, exotic but evolved bloodthirsty women, but rich in resources that you think of a better future, radiant for them.
TOURISM
14-07-2017 by redazione
Malindi could be one of Africa's most important destinations for marine archeology.
In the depths off the north coast of Kenya are hidden secrets of over 2000 years of history.
It was already the Phoenicians, and then the ancient Romans, to sail with boats beyond Abyssinia and overcome the Cape Guardafui, the so-called "horn of Africa", to trade and be able to tell what they had seen.
FOOD
13-07-2017 by redazione
Sixty percent of red meat raised in Kenya and brought to the slaughterhouses is highly contaminated due to food ingested by cattle, especially plastic.
This is revealed by a survey carried out in Nairobi and nearby slaughterhouses on behalf of the Livestock Research Institute.
Contamination mainly affects levels beyond the average toxicity of plastics, which in the Nairobi public market have reached truly worrying levels.
POLITICS
12-07-2017 by Antonio Altieri
Now that we are at the end of the first electoral mandate of Uhuru Kenyatta and in the year of consolidating the power of his Tanzania colleague John Pombe Magufuli, we can see how the political and economic relations between the two countries of Eastern Africa remain problematic and stent on take off.
NEWS
12-07-2017 by redazione
Kenya has become one of the first African countries for wellness tourism.
Private healthcare and SPA facilities have led Kenya to the podium between the destinations of "medical tourism" in the Black Continent, as reported in the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) of 2017.
TOURISM
11-07-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo
It is a waiting season and as all expectations, it is likely to give birth to those who in Africa have found the ideal place to match total relaxation.
The national elections, scheduled for August 8, have brought to mind tourists the chaos in the country of 2008, malindi and Watamu, despite Malindi and Watamu being quieter, in fact blocked tourism throughout Kenya and hence Also on the coast.
Fears that something is happening again is transformed for Italian travel agencies in advice to avoid Kenya at least during this time.
LATEST NEWS
11-07-2017 by redazione
V.I.P.
10-07-2017 by redazione
A beautiful holiday in Kenya for Hollywood actress Naomi Watts, between Nairobi and Rift Valley.
The British icon, star of "Mullholland Drive" and "King Kong" and the new "Gipsy" TV series on Netflix, was granted the well-deserved rest after filming the TV series and after its appearance at the Paris Fashion Week , Relaxing in the luxury hotel Giraffe Manor, just outside Nairobi.
INVESTMENTS
08-07-2017 by redazione
Mayungu will be the next frontier of coastal tourism. The fishermen's village between Malindi and Watamu is evolving, among the latest land and property sales (even Nairobi's prominent figures have purchased plots or existing homes) and the resolution of many controversies that have finally produced property titles ( Title deed).
LATEST NEWS
08-07-2017 by redazione
Kenya on the eve of the election loses the man of national security.
Defense Minister Joseph Ole Nkasseiry died suddenly last night after being taken to hospital in Nairobi.
NEWS
07-07-2017 by redazione
After a few days of complete lack of supermarket desks and local shops in Malindi and on the north coast of Kenya, packs of 1 or 2 kilograms of mail flour, which are indispensable to prepare the ugali, national national kana, came back.
After the period of great drought in the country that had contributed, together with inflation, to raise the prices of the few schools left in the warehouses, there was a complete lack of "posho", so that the state had to buy a ' Quantum Ingredient (30 tons) of ground maize from Mexico, via South Africa, keeping prices below 100 shillings per 2kg package.
NEWS
07-07-2017 by redazione
A fire yesterday evening at the Sea View Resort in Malindi luckily was tamed before it could attack the entire hotel restaurant on Lamu Road, run by the manager and Italian chef Remo Briziarelli.
NEWS
07-07-2017 by redazione
US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec spoke in press on the forthcoming presidential election in Kenya.
"We do not have a preferred candidate - said Godec to the Kenyan press - for us it is important that the new president continues on the line of good relations between the two countries, for us the ideal candidate is called Democracy."
EDITORIAL
06-07-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo
Good morning, let me introduce myself: i am the ideal candidate for Malindi at the Kenya Parliament in the upcoming national elections.
First of all I want to point out that I do not belong to the majority, that is, to the party of President Kenyatta and his ally Ruto, the Jubilee, or the opposition represented by an alliance led by his challenger Raila Odinga.
Not having any staff against them, let's mean.
NEWS
05-07-2017 by redazione
The "Silicon Valley" Kenyan Konza City will be built by an Italian company.
Vicenza's Giuseppe Maltauro Construction Company has won 40 billion shillings (about 350 million euros) to build the technology city designed by former President Kibaki and wanted by current leader Uhuru Kenyatta.
SOLIDARITY
05-07-2017 by redazione
After the one donated a few months ago to the Gede Hospital, two other motorbikes donated by the Italian Karibuni NGO, thanks to the important contribution of Italian and private associations to help the health facilities of the Kenya coast.
The first of the two motorbikes was donated by Rotaract Como and was assigned to the Baolala village dispensary near Langobaya.
TOURISM
03-07-2017 by Mohammed Hersi
Why continued comparison of Kenya's tourism arrivals to South Africa or Morocco is wrong.
In the past couple of years we have continued to compare our tourists arrival numbers to South Aftica.
I will focus on South Africa and Morocco. In tourism any travel above five hours is classified as long haul while anything below that qualifies to be a short haul destination.
NEWS
03-07-2017 by redazione
Hard times for "old mold" banks in Kenya.
The historical Barclays Bank has decided to shut down seven of its subsidiaries in the country following a new parent company policy that has long been rumored to be selling its subsidiary Barclays Bank Africa.
ECONOMY
01-07-2017 by redazione
The World Economics Journal recently considered the devaluation of the Kenyan Shilling and considered that the currency of Kenya will remain at low values, compared to the dollar and euro, for at least 4 months.
LATEST NEWS
01-07-2017 by redazione
According to the most reliable survey of August's upcoming elections, Infotrak's ranking in 2013 was exactly the percentages, Kenya's outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta would be ahead of the 5-point Raila Odinga challenger, with a personal percentage of 48% Against 43% of opposition leader. Other minor candidates would reach 2% while 7% would still be undecided about who to vote.
The important data for Malindi and Watamu concerns the coastal region, where Odinga's NASA alliance would maintain dominance, even with 61%.