Transitioning from environmental illiteracy to environmental literacy in Uganda

Transitioning from environmental illiteracy to environmental literacy in Uganda

However, if nomadic pastoral people from elsewhere continue to have a field day on our biocultural landscapes, the method won’t be applicable and our agroecological farming systems will continue to disappear. This will be confounded by the ecologically and environmentally empty socioeconomic models such as Myooga, Operation Wealth Creation and Parish Development Model, which only focus on financial and economic gains of the beneficiaries at the expense of natural ecologies and environments

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Too young to carry it alone: Struggles of teenage pregnancy and parenting in Nairobi’s unforgiving slums

Too young to carry it alone: Struggles of teenage pregnancy and parenting in Nairobi’s unforgiving slums

Economic hardship compounds these realities. Only 25 per cent of young mothers have access to paid work – mostly informal jobs like laundry or hairdressing. Nearly three-quarters struggle to meet their children’s basic needs, often relying on relatives for childcare.

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Ministry of health and Aga Khan University Hospital sign deal to enable kidney and cardiac patients to get treatment in Kenya

Ministry of health and Aga Khan University Hospital sign deal to enable kidney and cardiac patients to get treatment in Kenya

Under the agreement, AKUH will offer subsidised kidney transplants and cardiac surgeries, including coronary artery bypass grafting and valve replacements, to patients who meet medical and financial eligibility criteria.

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Regional government now engages Kenya oil and gas working group on exploration in the north

Regional government now engages Kenya oil and gas working group on exploration in the north

KOGWG Coordinator Muturi wa Kamau highlighted the group’s role in strengthening governance structures in the oil and gas industry. Kamau noted that improving the land registration system was central to the group’s mandate, as it enhances transparency, public participation and accountability in the sector.

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Lake Turkana fish: How corrupt Kenyan officials make a killing in world’s largest permanent desert lake, impoverish local communities

Lake Turkana fish: How corrupt Kenyan officials make a killing in world’s largest permanent desert lake, impoverish local communities

While data on quantities and earnings from legal fish exports is scanty, international investigators, Institute for Security Studies, estimate the 300 tonnes of fish valued at over $1.7 million from Lake Turkana is smuggled to DRC and Zambia.

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Regional government in central Kenya builds coffee warehouse to enable farmers to sell their produce directly

Regional government in central Kenya builds coffee warehouse to enable farmers to sell their produce directly

Kirinyaga coffee farmers currently market their produce through the union’s Kirinyaga Slopes Coffee Brokerage Company, which works closely with county government to improve the entire coffee value chain from milling to marketing. The firm attained its brokerage status in 2023 after Governor Waiguru helped fast-track the issuance of its brokerage license at the Capital Markets Authority.

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Abuse of office or doublespeak: How Trump’s media conglomerate’s becoming a bitcoin reserve

Abuse of office or doublespeak: How Trump’s media conglomerate’s becoming a bitcoin reserve

Despite the ready availability of bitcoin exchange-traded funds, a cheaper way to invest in the currency indirectly, bitcoin treasury stocks are proliferating. Within the past two months, figures including Brandon Lutnick, the son of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and David Bailey, a bitcoin evangelist who reportedly advised Trump on crypto policy, have launched their own respective bitcoin treasury vehicles.

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ODM officials accuse party secretariat of delaying to release grassroots election results, say void is rocking party

ODM officials accuse party secretariat of delaying to release grassroots election results, say void is rocking party

Gem Branch Youth Organising Secretary Alfred Opondo said attempts by a section of the party officials in the headquarters to interfere with the duly elected grassroots officials was likely to affect the party performance.

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Outgoing African Development Bank boss terms his tenure at the bank ‘not a job, it is a mission’

Outgoing African Development Bank boss terms his tenure at the bank ‘not a job, it is a mission’

The president further said that the Development Bank further financed over $55 billion in support of infrastructure, including roads, rails, airports, seaports, digital and communications, health and water and sanitation.

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Kenya’s police chief raises doubts over alleged abduction of MP found in coffee plantation

Kenya’s police chief raises doubts over alleged abduction of MP found in coffee plantation

The IGP observed that the registration number of the vehicle involved in the incident was KCJ 660P, belonging to Koimburi and was being driven by one Frida Njeri, said to be the first responder at the alleged crime scene.

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