Since then, Mr. Orlofsky and Stefan Ratibor, a Gagosian director in London, have been following Mr. Colen's work closely, visiting his Manhattan studio regularly and making a point of seeing new pieces wherever they have been shown.
As well as orchestrating the emergence of the intermediaries, it monitors its agents closely, typically visiting them every two weeks to see how they are handling the growing volume of transactions (on average, each M-PESA agent now handles almost 100 transactions a day).Operators in other countries have been doing their best to imitate Safaricom.
I follow this issue closely and have visited refugee camps many times in the broader region.
In the 1930s he became much interested in Africa; was closely associated with the International African Institute; visited students working among Bemba, Swazi, and other tribes in eastern and southern Africa; and wrote the introduction to Jomo Kenyatta's book Facing Mount Kenya (1938), prepared as a diploma thesis under his supervision.
Their team collected 17 ml of blood per visit during a period of intensive sampling (every 2 3 days for 36 closely spaced visits).
It is a closely watched visit, especially given the often-tense relations between Mr. Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has known Mr. Romney for three decades.
Arif Rafiq, an analyst of Pakistan politics, said, however, that "the two closely timed visits to China by President Zardari and General Kayani are not part of a strategy by Pakistan to play Beijing and Washington off one another".
PARIS — On a delicate and closely watched visit to Algeria, President François Hollande of France on Thursday acknowledged the "profoundly unjust and brutal" nature of France's colonial rule, a statement seen in both countries as heralding a change of tone.
CAIRO — Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China discussed Middle Eastern politics and oil with Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud over the weekend on a closely watched visit to Saudi Arabia that American diplomats hope may help loosen China's ties to Iran.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama just concluded a closely watched visit to Saudi Arabia.
