The BBC World Service programme The Works has been to Kenya to assess the situation there. Kenya faces potential power-supply problems over the New Year as the millennium bug takes effect. Despite being ahead of most other African countries, independent surveys show Y2K preparations lag behind more developed countries. One big problem facing Kenya is computer dumping.
Many businesses rely on second hand computers, imported from Europe.
Many are old, reconditioned machines that are not Year 2000 compliant - but few companies can afford new machines. Government efforts The Kenyan government started taking steps to eliminate the bug in October 1997, with the launch of a taskforce to look into the effect of the millennium bug within government ministries and departments. Then in November 1998 the Kenya Year 2000 National Co-ordination Initiative was launched. The taskforce has been looking at private and public sectors, with the aim of making them all millennium compliant. The Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance's public sector payroll have both been certified compliant.