KARIBU KENYA - UNON - the United Nations Office at Nairobi

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For those who want email access at home, a number ISPs can be recommended – although unlimited email and Internet access remains more expensive here than in the West. National Postal Services Kenya’s postal services have become much more efficient and reliable in recent years, particularly as regards the security of mail travelling into and around the country. However, as in most countries, it is still not advisable to send cash or anything valuable by ordinary post.Apart from the speedpost and courier services, post is not delivered directly to people’s homes, but to personal or corporate boxes at the major post offices. Nairobi’s main post office is at Telposta Towers on Kenyatta Avenue, with other major post offices at Haile Selassie Avenue, Tom Mboya Street, Ngara Road, Enterprise Road, Westlands, Yaya Centre, Adams Arcade, Nyayo Stadium, Lavington,Village Market, Muthaiga, Karen, Hardy Estate Langata, and the International Airport.There is also a sub post office at the UN Gigiri Complex. Hours of service are 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday. The Postal Corporation of Kenya (Posta) runs efficient daily airmail services, delivering letters to Europe in 3-4 days and the United States in 6-7 days. There are also reliable internal airmail services between Nairobi and Kenya’s other major towns. Surface mail is less reliable, taking up to 3 months from Europe depending on shipping traffic. For urgent mail, Posta’s Expedited Mail Service (EMS) offers next-day delivery in the UK and delivery within 3 days in the US, at much more competitive prices than the courier companies (Ksh 1,650 for 0.5kg or Ksh 2,500 for 1.5kg). Posta also offers a Post Cargo service for bulky mail, and several different types of secure national and regional money order services. For more information, call 243434 or visit www.posta.co.ke. UN Postal Services UN employees can use the UNON operated Pouch Service to send official mail and small personal mail to most major UN agencies and regional offices worldwide. As well as all UNEP regional offices, pouches are sent to most UNDP African field offices once a fortnight.There is a twice-weekly pouch service to UN Headquarters in New York and the UN Office in Geneva every Wednesday and Friday, which takes five days and three days respectively.This is a particularly convenient and secure means of sending cheques to the UN Federal Credit Union in New York. 48 • KARIBU KENYA
All bulk mail sent in boxes or cartons for dispatch by pouch should be accompanied by an authorisation form or a covering letter indicating the contents and the budget line to be charged. No boxes or cartons weighing more than 20 kilogrammes can be sent by pouch. For more details, contact the UNON Mail and Pouch Unit on 622549. Courier Services DHL is the officially appointed courier service at the UN Gigiri Complex, and offers very competitive rates to UN employees from its offices inside the Gigiri Post Office. Those wishing to use this service should call the DHL office directly on 622580 or 622579 for details of costs and schedules. The Media The Kenyan media is the most diverse in East Africa, with a large middle class providing a base for substantial advertising revenue. The liberalisation of broadcasting has had a profound effect in Nairobi, with the number of radio and television stations increasing in recent years to 48 and eight respectively, after three decades of almost exclusive domination by the state-run Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. The most popular television stations are KTN, Nation and Metro, while popular radio stations include Nation (96.4 FM), Kiss (100 FM) and Capital (98.4 FM). The local Daily Nation, East African Standard, Taifa Leo and EastAfrican newspapers are avidly read by news hungry Kenyans, and the climate of media freedom has vastly improved in recent years. FM relays of the BBC World Service are also on the air in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu at 93.7 FM, and the Voice of America has a relay in Nairobi (107.5 FM). As well as the main terrestrial television stations, the South African satellite provider MultiChoice will hook you up with some 60 channels, including comprehensive news, sports, movie and lifestyle coverage, for a fee of approximately Ksh 5,000 per month. For more information, call MultiChoice Kenya on 4449000, or visit their offices behind the Sarit Centre. There are also a huge number of video libraries, located in most of the main shopping centres around town, renting out videos of widely differing quality for Ksh 50-80 per tape and DVDs for around Ksh 100 each. For short-stayers, televisions and VCRs can be rented from Audio Video Rentals in Soin Arcade, Westlands, and Television Sales & Rentals, Bruce House, Kaunda Street. CHAPTER 6: FACILITIES & SERVICES • 49
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KARIBU KENYA An orientation guide f
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Page 15 and 16: The Economy Following strong econom
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