Communities along Kenya’s largest rivers put on high alert hydropower dams overflow
KenGen Managing Director Engineer Peter Njenga reported that the alert was the second after the largest of the dams and the first in the cascade, Masinga, recorded overflow on April 30.
Starved of time for love and weighed down by books, how PhD students enjoy snatches of romance
Is lasting love more likely if you date only other scientists? How much should you talk about your research on a first date? Researchers lift the lid on their experiences of when science meets affairs of the heart. When Karen Arellano moved to Spain from Mexico in 2020 to start...
Kenya’s saving and cooperatives movement hits $14 billion as it registers rapid growth
Co-operative Alliance of Kenya Chair Macloud Malonza said the Sacco movement has registered tremendous growth and needed to advance to the next level. Therefore the movement is advocating for a new law that will allow cooperatives to get into the payment system and start offering other financial services like issuing bankers cheques.
Lock up monkeys and snakes in Kakamega Forest or compensate us for losses of crops and life, farmers tell state
The law lists elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, hyena, crocodiles, hippopotamus and wild dogs as those eligible for compensation under the Act, but excludes monkeys and snakes local people say are equally dangerous.
Nigeria food security: How water over-extraction, deforestation have created Africa’s hungriest nation
More than 80 per cent of Nigeria’s farmers are smallholder farmers, who account for 90 per cent of the country’s annual agricultural production. Some work their fields with little more than a piece of roughly carved wood and their bare hands.
Fears that Pfizer lied about its vaccine’s efficacy as federal judge sends Kansas lawsuit against company back to state court
Pfizer filed an opposing motion in October 2024, in which it presented three arguments for why the case belonged in federal court. The final argument was that Kansas’ claims were “completely pre-empted by the PREP Act and are thus removable to federal court.”
South African President Ramaphosa meets Trump next week, white South African refugees on agenda
Trump has criticised South Africa’s Black-led government on multiple fronts and issued an executive order February 7 cutting all US funding to the country as punishment for what he said were its anti-white policies at home and anti-American foreign policy.
During visit to Syria Trump puts premium on lucrative business in Middle East than relations with Israel
As Trump spoke in Riyadh on Tuesday, claiming credit for the ceasefire agreement with the Houthis, Israeli media noted that warning sirens were sounding in areas across Israel including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as a missile from Yemen headed towards them.
