ABSA Bank club members fly off to Estonia and Finland for 10-day fintech trip
Ambassador Humal-Ayal said Kenya should not be worried about digital colonialism (neo-colonialism) since the governments of Kenya and Estonia are committed to strengthening capacity-building relationships between private sectors of the two countries.
Neo-slavery: Steeped in corruption, unable to create new jobs for African countries are sending skilled labour abroad to boost their economies
Sending workers abroad has been at the core of development strategies of Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh for decades. But the approach has not been widely embraced in sub-Saharan Africa, where countries like Kenya have been accused by frustrated citizens of shirking their responsibility to create jobs at home.
President Museveni’s rival goes on hunger strike to protest his continued detention despite Uganda Supreme Court’s orders
Uganda’s prisons spokesperson Frank Baine denied the assertion regarding her husband, saying: “Besigye is OK and he is not on a hunger strike.”
KWS rangers wad off hungry villagers in West Nyakach and Kabodho in Kisumu salivating for meat of dead pythons
ACC Orina said the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers were immediately notified and they recovered the burnt carcasses from the hungry villagers who were determined to chop and eat the dead reptiles.
Migori county government unable to account for how it accrued $9.73 million in pending bills
Senate Committee on Finance and Budget led by Acting Chairperson Senator Bonny Khalwale took task Migori County government over Ksh1.26 billion ($9.73 million) pending bills. Senator Khalwale who was accompanied by Finance and Budget Committee Senators Eddy Oketch, Richard Onyonka and Joyce Korir had a special sitting with Migori County...
Kin of Kenya’s freedom fighters petition Britain to come clear on ‘missing’ reparations
British High Commissioner to Kenya Neil Wigan, while responding to Kiruga regarding the reparation twist, clarified that the final settlement claim was made in 2013. The envoy also stated that any allegations levelled against the President William Ruto or his government of withholding such monies is therefore false.
an M23 72-hour ultimatum to refugees to exit camps leaves 110,000 people stranded in eastern Congo
Rwanda-backed rebels controlling cities in eastern Congo have forcibly closed settlement camps, leading to the displacement of more than 110,000 people in recent days, the UN and locals said on Tuesday. The M23 rebels – the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of Congo’s mineral-rich...
Trump terms USAID ‘incompetent and corrupt’ as agency’s watchdog is fired for criticising new administration
Hundreds of USAID programmes across the globe representing billions of dollars of US assistance came to a halt after US President Donald Trump on January 20 ordered a freeze on most US foreign aid, saying he wanted to ensure it was aligned with his “America First” policy.
Reintegrating knowledge and truth: Science, religion and politics are not strange bedfellows
Domains such as ethics, aesthetics, and religion fundamentally influence human societies and how those societies interact with science. Topics like aesthetics, morality and theology are actively studied by philosophers, historians and other scholars. However, questions that arise within these domains generally cannot be resolved by science, although they can be informed by science.
Previously ‘orphaned’ by scientists as ‘primitive’ sorghum is rebounding in western Kenya as a cash crop
Prof Hai Chun Jing from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is leading the Chinese partnership in technology development and transfer, put emphasis on the importance of selecting and breeding high-yielding, drought-resistant varieties that can thrive in the diverse agro-ecological zones of Africa.
