Kenya’s quest for clean sports gets WADA nod as East African nation is removed from ‘bad boys’ watch-list after anti-doping compliance
Speaking during the closing of the ADAK Anti-Doping Workshop for Sports Journalists Association of Kenya (SJAK) on February 28 in Mombasa, ADAK Board of Directors Chair Aphaxard Muthuri Kiugu said the removal of Kenya from the compliance watch-list marks the successful conclusion of the corrective process.
Kenya embarks on transition of vulnerable children from charitable homes to family and community care
Phase one of the transition from CCI to family and community-based care, Pilot Khaemba noted, focuses on aligning the CCI leaders to fully comprehend the rationale and benefits behind transitioning their model of care from institutional care to family- and community-based care.
US grapples with ‘massive epidemic of vaccine injury’, experts want childhood vaccine schedule ‘eliminated’
The event’s strong showing signals that “the medical coercion paradigm that enforces mass vaccination is falling apart,” she said. “Whether the powers that be recognise it or not, we thankfully are coming to the end of the era of forced medicine.”
Beyond falling bombs and lives gone silent: Hidden toll of war in Middle East as US, Israel and Iran trade fire
For 35-year-old Turkish sports coach Cem Demirok, the numbers on the scale have lost their significance. These days, it’s the explosive weight of the missiles Israel and Iran keep unveiling that occupy his thoughts. The deadly clash between the United States, Israel and Iran, which erupted at the end of...
Judiciary commemorates fallen Supreme Court of Kenya judge Mohammed Ibrahim in symbolic ‘Closing of File Proceedings’
Chief Justice Martha Koome described Justice Ibrahim as a legal giant whose life was dedicated to the pursuit of justice and truth. She said the fallen judge’s work helped shape Kenya’s constitutional culture and safeguard the freedoms enjoyed today.
Kenya’s Ministry of Environment recognises garbage pickers as ‘unsung heroes in waste management value chain’
The forum brought together stakeholders in the waste management sector including representatives from the Ministry of Cooperatives and MSMEs, Nairobi County, Waste Pickers Associations, and Producer Responsibility Organizations.
Understanding Iran’s new Ayatollah Mojtaba: ‘It’s humiliation for US to kill an 86-year-old man only to have him replaced by his hard-line son’
Mojtaba Khamenei has spent years building influence within Iran’s political and security apparatus. Palestinian political analyst Abdul Qader Hammad of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza noted his close ties to the IRGC, which bolster his credibility and make it possible to secure support from hard-line factions.
United Nations, National Treasury step up efforts to improve Kenya’s sovereign credit rating
Africatalyst Bureau Chief for East and Southern Africa Pratik Patel noted that negative credit ratings significantly affect a country’s ability to access affordable financing in international markets.
China reconfigures its technology around exports, investment and consumption as pistons of its economic engine
The country is now poised to place big bets on technology. In late February, Beijing’s Haidian District – known as China’s Silicon Valley – pledged over 9 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) for industrial innovation this year. Leading AI model firm Zhipu AI and chip designer Moore Threads have been early bets for the district government – prime examples of China’s strategy to back up hard tech for the long haul.
How one club is killing football in Kenya through match-fixing for unearned plaudits of ‘record this, record that…’
According to sources, the real reason there is quagmire in the Nairobi United vs Gor Mahia forfeited match ruling is the referee’s report that said the match did not end because of violence of any sort but rather “it was too dark to play.”
