Speeding ‘iron snake’: How Kenya’s standard gauge railway powers tourism in once sleepy Voi Town
Ali Khan, 17, adjusted his backpack and stepped aboard the afternoon Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) train at Voi Station. The doze-metres long trains, to some locals, is a speeding ‘iron snake’ that craws on the ground with hundreds of passengers in tis belly. Three days earlier, the Indian teenager and...
A paradigm shift as Kenya resorts to all-female rangers to boost wildlife conservation in Amboseli National Park
Evan Mvua Mkala, a senior programme manager at IFAW, said that while 50 male rangers had received extensive training, IFAW found that their efforts in pastoralist communities were limited by a lack of direct access to information from within those communities.
Rest of the world lower forest as China’s economy starts new five-year plan with resilience, new growth drivers
With many international institutions lowering their forecasts for major economies, China’s first-half performance was particularly notable given the size of its economy, officials said.
Official data show consumption expenditure contributed more to China’s economic growth than capital formation and net exports
Retail sales of services grew 5.3 per cent year on year in the first half, outpacing retail sales of goods by 4.2 percentage points, Wang said, noting that service segments including tourism, consulting and leasing, as well as cultural, sports and leisure activities, all maintained double-digit growth.
Xi says Jingdezhen World Heritage listing speaks to China’s commitment to preserving cultural legacy
President Xi Jinping’s approach is reflected in China’s World Heritage inscriptions, including the 5,000-year-old Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, which provide evidence of an early Chinese civilisation; Beijing’s 700-year-old Central Axis, an enduring expression of traditional urban planning; and the Xixia Imperial Tombs, a vast burial complex that bears witness to cultural exchanges and integration along the Silk Roads from the 11th to 13th centuries.
Kenya’s prisons department grapples with scabies outbreak in crowded Naivasha Medium Prison
According to public health officers, scabies spreads rapidly through direct skin-to-skin contact, with congested settings such as prisons providing conditions for faster transmission, due to prolonged close contact among inmates.