>From my personal experience, which might just be mine, with option 1 first:
1. Sasahost.com, because of excellent customer service and a decent package. The ability to chat with the support dudes is really nice. A dude there called Paul 'something', is a really helpful dude, with loads of patience for obnoxious customers like me :-). Servers located abroad. I have several domains/hosting with these peeps
2. 1and1.com, for ridiculous good packages for prices lower than the "local" providers. Servers located abroad. Never had to contact their support so I dont know how good it is. One domain/hosting with them.
3. Safaricom. ONLY because their servers are located here in .ke. Otherwise, their customer service sucks, unless you are wont to use twitter to sorta bully them to respond to your tickets. One domain with these peeps, which I am looking forward to it expiring so that I can move it elsewhere.