After over 10 years of underperformance Kericho County posts more than Ksh1 billon in own revenue collection
According to department of finance and economic planning, in the previous 2023-2024 financial year, the county collected Ksh834,758,771, achieving a performance rate of 78.8 per cent, which was an increase from Ksh775,958,004 collected in the 2022-2023 financial year, posting a performance rate of 75.1 per cent.
Africa’s major currencies expected to remain stable amid slow activity in financial markets
Zambia’s kwacha is expected to be trade around its current levels but some analysts said it could gain further out as the economic outlook improves. On Thursday the kwacha was quoted at 24.39 per dollar from 24.45 a week ago.
UN: HIV catastrophe looms in poor countries unless hole left after US funding pause is plugged
The $4 billion that the United States pledged for the global HIV response for 2025 disappeared virtually overnight in January when US President Donald Trump ordered that all foreign aid be suspended and later moved to shutter the US AID agency.
Kenya’s president orders police to fracture protesters with gunfire against backdrop of building $9.3 million church at Sate House
The president’s order to police to shoot to maim (viewed as permission to kill) protesters has shocked the East African nation of about 55 million people as it comes barely a week after he announced that he was putting up a Ksh1.2 billion church at State House – the seat of government – as testimony of his commitment to justice and moral uprightness.
Kenya poised to retain status as world geothermal power production leader as GDC strikes steam at Baringo Geothermal project
Interviewed, Ngugi expressed GDC’s commitment to ensuring timely delivery of renewable energy projects that will greatly support the country’s development vision and plans. The director said that at Paka field, where most of the work had been done, was slated to start production of the first 100 megawatts by 2028.
Shunning suicide for Jesus Christ: How meeting God at the point of need healed my migraine
In 2022, I joined the University of Nairobi, hopeful that campus life would usher in a new lease of life. Instead, the agony intensified. I visited Kenyatta National Hospital and was prescribed spectacles to reduce light sensitivity. They cost 6,000 Kenya shillings, but even that brought no respite. At this point, I was on the cups of surrendering to unknown force. Death!
