350,000 children in Garissa vaccinated as Kenya ramps up push to check spread of polio from Ethiopia, Somalia
Garissa county polio champion Abdi Guhad said they had to network and convince the community members some who were reluctant to have their children vaccinated.
Rattled high coffee output by neighbours, Kenya plans to revamp its wobbly industry to produce 500,000 tonnes annually
Murang’a governor Irungu Kang’ata said his administration will set aside some funds in the next financial year to support farmers. The funds, he said, will facilitate farmers to increase production, saying from next month, a team from the county government will tour the USA and China to search for a market for Murang’a coffee.
Kenya: ICRISAT unveils strategy to turn Africa’s expansive deserts into food baskets
ICRISAT Deputy Director General for Research and Innovation Stanford Blade observed that the drylands problems are intensifying, becoming fiercer and more frequent, hence the need to strengthen the research and science base.
Kenya’s freedom fighters or Mau Mau veterans say Britain owes them reparations for atrocities suffered
Mau veterans in Narok County are now calling on the government to push the British government to expedite compensation of the few surviving freedom fighters to enable them meet their basic needs in their sunset days. Wanjiku Wagachoka, now aged 102, recalled that her youthful years were spent secretly carrying...
Bluffs and contradiction that were Ugandan kingdoms: Why Museveni created so-called cultural institutions to manipulate politics
The strategy was to de-politicise the defunct kingdoms and make them completely dependent on the centre, which wanted to use them to achieve its political ends. This strategy made the LC1 politically more powerful than “the new cultural leaders”. LC1 or Local Council One is the lowest level of political organisation and administration of government.
As rest of Kenya grapples with medical supplies shortage Kakamega County in the west restocks its 181 health facilities
While presiding over the launch, Governor Fernandez Barasa warned health officials involved in drugs and other medical supplies racketeering that they would apprehended and arraigned in court. Besides, he warned, they risked being sacked.
