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Nigeria's Dangote Kenya refinery breaks ground
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Kenya has broken the ground for a new oil refinery backed by Nigerian industrialist and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. The 700,000 barrels per day refinery is believed to be a gamechanger in the energy security and stability of petroleum supply in the East African region. The construction of the $16bn dollar oil refinery in Lamu, coastal Kenya is expected to create about 60,000 jobs and be completed within three years. It hopes to provide 1,000 megawatts of power generation, twice the capacity of his Lagos refinery, serving the needs of the Lamu refinery and beyond. And we hear fr...
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Hello there, I'm Charles Gittonga and today on Focus on Africa. Nobody wants Africa to develop. That's why we Africans will develop Africa. Whether they like it or they don't like it, we are moving.
It's a moving trade. Either you join it or you'll be crushed a long way. Have you ever heard of anybody complaining about land issue? The land is there in thousands of... even as the one diagram I said, take.
We said, no, it's too much. We only took a bit of it. So to come and see that some people are demonstrating about what.
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