Food security: Kenya’s Anti-Counterfeit Authority seizes fake fertiliser in Nairobi raid
According to the Authority, if these 19,000 counterfeit bags had entered the market as filled 50kg fertilizer bags, they would have amounted to 9.5 million kilometres of counterfeit fertilizer, defrauding unsuspecting farmers.
Ethiopian leader Abiy visits Somalia as Horn of Africa neighbours aim to mend strained relations
Somali state media reported that the two leaders would discuss bilateral issues ranging from trade to efforts to strengthen ties. Mohamud visited Ethiopia earlier in 2025.
Trump’s tax on trade: Rationale ranges from raising money for tax cuts to bringing back manufacturing
The sweeping nature of Trump’s plans, hitting close trading partners and core industrial goods, has created the sort of uncertainty around the economic outlook that could push down business investment, a further drag on growth. That could, of course, be offset if firms see opportunity to avoid tariffs by moving operations to the US, a dynamic that would only be clear over time.
Kenya sets up own geo-hazard surveillance system to monitor distribution, strength of seismic events
During a meeting with the Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Mining to deliberate over the Budget Policy Statement, a mining team led by the PS appealed to the committee for allocation of adequate resources that will ensure execution of vital programs under the department.
Across the bridge: From academic writing to public writing, then public action publishing
Public writing is definitely necessary for retired academics and intellectuals to keep their minds productive beyond the Ivory Tower. Many academics are never heard of again once they leave the ivory tower because they only know academic writing, which is unnecessary beyond the Ivory Tower. To remain productive outside the Ivory Tower, they should engage in public writing.
How education programme for migrant and refugee children in Mauritania is cutting numbers of asylum seekers in Europe
The school for children of migrants and refugees, set up in 2018 as an early response to the growing need, is the kind of programme envisioned as part of the 210 million euro ($219 million) accord the European Union and Mauritania brokered last year.
How boy born with cleft lip palate inspired father to fund free surgery for patients with similar conditions in Kenya
In July 2000, Santhosh Mathews and his wife, Indian natives living in the United States welcomed their son with a cleft lip and palate among other conditions like holes in his heart and did not have a right eye or right ear.
Publish or perish: Why internet publishing is new storehouse of knowledge for deprived African scholars
In Africa South of the Sahara, South Africa and Nigeria have progressed fastest in the adoption and use social media in academic libraries. However, it is true to say that in most African universities there is still a lot of hesitation to use academic production in social media such as Researchgate.net and Academia.edu to measure academic success and reward those who publish in these media, however qualitative their work is. This is probably true in most universities of the world.
Kenya’s chief justice defended against ouster in similar push that saved national assembly speaker from ejection
The first petition by former Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Nelson Havi was submitted to the Judicial Service Commission on January 10, 2025, calling for the removal of the entire seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court.
Tap to Eat: Hot meals served from mega kitchen change how Kenyan children access quality food, raise school retention
Meal prices, which were once a financial burden for many families, have been subsidised through partnerships with local food vendors and sponsors, the mobile-based payment system also tracks daily meal consumption, ensuring that children receive balanced and adequate nutrition.
