With more investments, Western Kenya’s leading aquaculture farmer says Kakamega has capacity to meet country’s fish supply
Since it was indexed as a key driver of the local economy and as a weapon against poverty and food insecurity in 2021 when interest in aquaculture was limited to 6,700 farmers and production 1,700 metric tonnes of fish, investment has risen rapidly. Currently, it is estimated that Kakamega has 10,000 fish farmers and 12,000 fish ponds that are producing over 2,500 metric tonnes of fish.
Ruthless gangs step up sexual violence in Haiti as 200 Kenya police contingent arrives, US dithers
The US State Department said it approved waivers for $40.7 million in foreign assistance to help the mission and Haitian police, including contracts to support forward operating bases, medical services and vehicle maintenance.
Trump cuts funding for South Africa citing land policy and Pretoria’s war case against Israel
US President Donald Trump holds a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the East Room at the White House in Washington, US, on February 7, 2025. Credit: Reuters
Uprooted by M23 rebels from their homes, rejected church and abandoned by UN, eastern Congo’s IDPs live in constant fear
Water and electricity were slowly restored and schools and shops began reopening. Aid workers and volunteers scrambled to collect dead bodies off the streets under the watchful eye of M23 patrols. Since late January, the latest spasm of violence has left some 3,000 people dead and nearly as many injured.
US District judge stays Trump orders to send home 2,700 USAID workers
A US judge on Friday temporarily allowed roughly 2,700 US Agency for International Development employees put on leave by President Donald Trump’s administration to go back to work, pausing aspects of a plan to dismantle the agency. US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, who was nominated by Trump during...
Missing link: While Uganda places premium on mass production in education, it’s surrendered critical thinking, critical analysis and critique
Virtually all our problems do not require just political interventions, which dominate public discourse in Uganda, or chains of critical analysis of and critiques on them, which we are preoccupied with. They require critical thinking.
