Global News by Tag: business
NAIROBI, KENYA – Hellena Wanjiku, 29, lives in Wanyee, an area west of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, with her sister and brother-in-law. She works as a hairdresser and manages one of the couple’s salons. But she says that recent power cuts have hurt business.
“Electricity is central to the thriving of my business – heating water, powering the radio, which is for entertaining my clients, hair drying and styling,” Wanjiku says with a loud sigh.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Tourist vehicles marked by green registration plates stop at Basantapur, one of the major tourist attractions in central Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, and deposit hordes of tourists from various countries. As the tourists stroll around the area, their guides inform them about the century-old palace that once used to be the seat of the ancient monarchy.
NAIROBI, KENYA – Ahmed Sheikh, 34, ushers customers into his small, packed shop in Eastleigh, a booming Nairobi suburb, while humming a traditional Somali song.
His shop is tucked inside the Garissa Lodge mall, the oldest of the many buildings that have sprung up almost overnight in the fast-growing suburb. Most of the shops sell similar merchandise – women’s shoes and handbags – but Sheikh seems confident he will ring in huge sales by the end of the day.
LAGOS, NIGERIA – When the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project conducted a 22-nation survey last spring, Nigeria was the only nation in which more than half of respondents, 54 percent, said women should not have equal rights with men.
“Many things are working against us in Nigeria,” says Fatima Aliko Mohammed, one of three representatives of Nigeria at the April 2010 Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship called for by U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.