KENYA: PRESIDENT DANIEL ARAP MOI SPEAKS OF COUNTRY'S FUTURE DIFFICULTIES AT 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN

Record ID: 637807

  • Title: KENYA: PRESIDENT DANIEL ARAP MOI SPEAKS OF COUNTRY'S FUTURE DIFFICULTIES AT 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN
  • Date: 13th December 1988
  • Summary: AERIAL VIEW Stadium where celebrations were held. 0.03 GV People forming number "25". 0.08 GV AND CU President Arap Moi arrives as schoolgirls wave flags (2 SHOTS). 0.16 SVs Moi walks up to rostrum as guards march past (2 SHOTS). 0.27 SVs Leaders from neighbouring countries arriving (4 SHOTS). 0.57 SVs AND CU Troops marching past (5 SHOTS). 1.16 GV Moi standing with other
  • Embargoed: 28th December 1988 12:00
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  • Location: Kenya, Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAERN01BZ51UDWF10JMEKECX4N1
  • Story Text: NAIROBI, KENYA

    Kenya faces difficult years ahead because of its rapid population growth, Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi said during Monday's celebrations to mark the country's 25th anniversary of independence.

    Moi told more than 20,000 people at Nairobi's Moi international stadium that Kenya's rising population "means we have more mouths to feed". He said rising imports, low prices for Kenya's main exports and the country's 5.23 billion United States dollar foreign debt had given Kenya serious economic problems. Moi, accompanied by heads of state of neighbouring. African countries, also called for greater regional cooperation.

    The Presidents of Uganda and Tanzania - with whom Moi's relations have been cool - were also among those attending the four-hour celebrations. The Presidents of Zambia, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti also attended. Kenya won independence from Britain in 1963, and used to be one of Africa's most prosperous countries, with well-developed agriculture providing more than enough to feed its 21 million people. But now Kenya has little arable land left, and the growing population needs land for housing.

    <strong>Source: MOHAMED SHAFFI</strong>
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