Unable to generate quality jobs at home Kenya pitches for employment of 200,000 youths in Middle East
With more bilateral labour agreements in the pipeline and a structured financial and legal support system in place, Kenya’s efforts to expand job opportunities beyond its borders appear to be gaining momentum and thousands more youths are set to benefit, securing brighter futures for themselves and their families while contributing to the national economy.
Drop in cheap palm oil production as biodiesel demand surges in key markets in Asia
The biodiesel push will reduce Indonesia’s exports to just 20 million metric tonnes in 2030, down a third from 29.5 million in 2024, estimates Eddy Martono, chairman of the southeast Asian nation’s largest palm oil association, GAPKI.
Girls in Kenya’s Maasai pastoralist community take up self-defence training to ward off sexual abuse, early marriages
Girls’ education apparently has an impact on gender-based violence too, with 34 per cent of Kenyan women surveyed saying they were victims of physical violence, a figure that drops to 23 per cent for women with education.
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