School grades, a rebuke and suicide: How 17-year old Maseno National School student shot himself dead with father’s gun

School grades, a rebuke and suicide: How 17-year old Maseno National School student shot himself dead with father’s gun

Rachuonyo North Sub-County Police Commander Peter Wallah, who confirmed the incident said preliminary investigations indicated that the teenager had become angry after his mother confiscated his mobile phone.

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Ruto’s deportation of rights activists echoes Jomo Kenyatta’s rejection of influential Black thinkers Walter Rodney and Frantz Fanon

Ruto’s deportation of rights activists echoes Jomo Kenyatta’s rejection of influential Black thinkers Walter Rodney and Frantz Fanon

Walter Rodney had come from Guyana with a scholar’s training and a revolutionary’s concern for ordinary people. He had studied Africa deeply, not as a dead place in old books but as a living source of memory, pride, and resistance.

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Kenya Development Corporation publishes new financing strategies to ease access to credit, support business  

Kenya Development Corporation publishes new financing strategies to ease access to credit, support business  

KDC Director General Norah Ratemo said the corporation had introduced several measures to address challenges faced by investors and improve customer experience.

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Trump administration allows Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to select US firms and state agencies

Trump administration allows Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to select US firms and state agencies

The US government has eased the restrictions it imposed on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos 5, allowing the company to grant access to more than 100 US organisations, including large corporations and government agencies. In a letter to Anthropic’s co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown obtained by...

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Race to AI dominance: China outpaces US, builds world’s fastest supercomputer claim top spot in TOP500 ranking

Race to AI dominance: China outpaces US, builds world’s fastest supercomputer claim top spot in TOP500 ranking

With a power consumption of approximately 42.2 megawatts, the Chinese supercomputer delivers 2,198 exaflops – meaning it can perform more than two quintillion operations per second.

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Australian government to double fines for breaches of under-16 social media ban

Australian government to double fines for breaches of under-16 social media ban

The Australian government has announced that it will move to double the maximum fine for companies that fail to enforce the nation’s social media ban for children younger than 16. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement at the weekend that technology companies are not “doing enough” to comply...

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Survey: Siaya County in Lake Victoria Basin bears heaviest respiratory disease burden in Kenya owing to dirty cooking energy

Survey: Siaya County in Lake Victoria Basin bears heaviest respiratory disease burden in Kenya owing to dirty cooking energy

EPRA Director General Joseph Okech said the initiative is part of the organisation’s corporate social responsibility in line with the government’s agenda of promoting access to universal health.

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While Kenya’s economy is progressively attractive to African banks, high public debt and non-performing loan volumes scare investors

While Kenya’s economy is progressively attractive to African banks, high public debt and non-performing loan volumes scare investors

Nedbank agreed earlier this year to acquire a majority stake in Kenya’s NCBA as ‌part of ⁠its regional expansion, beating South African rival Standard Bank, which operates in Kenya as Stanbic, to the prize, Kenyan banking officials said.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy command warns American bases ‘will experience hell in coming days’

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy command warns American bases ‘will experience hell in coming days’

The 14-point interim peace accord was meant to halt the fighting, which the US and Israel started on February 28, and reopen the strait while talks proceeded on issues such as Iran’s nuclear programme.

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