Kenya unveils 2025 medium-term public debt management strategy that stands at $85 billion
Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi disclosed that as of March 2025, Kenya’s total public debt stood at Ksh11.02 trillion ($85.030 billion) from Ksh10.5 trillion ($81.018 billion) in June 2024.
State agency, Communications Authority of Kenya and Huawei to roll back cybersecurity talent search
Director of Cybersecurity at the Communication Authority Vincent Ngundi, noted that the initiative, which has benefited from various collaborations, began in 2022 with approximately 1,700 students participating.
No more trips to India for treatment, Kericho governor announces as he commissions construction of $2.8m cancer centre
The governor further announced a partnership that secured Ksh500 million ($4 million) for expanding and equipping medical facilities noting that Kericho Referral Hospital serves not only local residents but also patients from neighbouring counties such as Bomet, Nakuru and Nandi, with 60 per cent of patients coming from outside Kericho.
Sudanese paramilitary force resorts to extortion, theft of relief as famine bites in IDP camps
About half of Sudan’s population of 50 million suffers from acute hunger, mostly in territory held or under threat from the RSF. More than 12.5 million people have been displaced. Aid agencies have failed to provide adequate relief and freezes on USAID funding are expected to add to the challenge.
Kenya turns to adventure tourism, cultural tourism and sports to push up revenue from hospitality industry
International tourism has increased by 60 per cent with one million increase in the number of international visitors enhancing tourism earnings to Ksh184.11 billion ($1.420 million).
Trump’s aid cuts fuel embers of HIV after a deadly war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
oday the HIV prevalence rate in Tigray is three per cent, more than double the pre-war average, according to local health authorities and the United Nations. The rate among the region’s roughly one million displaced people is 5.5 per cent. Among sexual violence survivors, it is 8.6 per cent.
Kenya push to raise food production Police impound fake fertilizer, maize seeds
Police and Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officers (DCI) inspected suspected counterfeit fertilisers and maize seedlings recovered from a home in Lubinu, Mumias East Sub-County of Kakamega County. Police are holding three suspects, including the owner of the home and have impounded a lorry that was found loading the fake fertiliser as DCI officers launch further investigations into the alleged scam.
Kenya’s agriculture financing rises by $30m as the East African nation aims to up food production
FINAS Summit Director Charity Mutegi, said the FINAS Summit will bring together stakeholders from various sectors, including policy-makers, the public and private sectors, financial institutions, agricultural technology providers, and farmers, to discuss challenges and solutions in financing agri-food systems sustainability.
Museveni’s military populism and Bobi Wine’s generational populism in robs Uganda of democracy
Uganda, community loyalty and ideological loyalty are being built through ideas such Saccos and programmes such as Bonna Baggagawale, Myooga, Operation Wealth Creation and Parish Development Model and also the so-called National Ideological School at Kyankwanzi.
