East Africa’s largest miller Mumias Sugar blames cane zone ownership disputes with rivals and weather swings for payment and harvesting delays
The Kakamega-based company pinpointed competitors West Kenya Sugar Company and Busia Sugar Industry, alleging that overlapping claims have led to complaints lodged with regulators and interruptions to harvesting operations, including the harassment of harvesting teams.
China Focus: Year of the Horse’s Spring Festival Gala brings to fore China’s technological drift to robotics
Leading the charge was Unitree Robotics located in Hangzhou in east China, a returning performer that commanded attention on Monday night. Moving beyond the somewhat stiff dance routines of 2025, its new robots took centre stage in a martial arts spectacle, wielding swords and nunchucks alongside human masters from a renowned kung-fu school.
National Treasury submits mid-year review of the second performance contracting cycle
The principal secretary said leadership and supervisory support significantly influence performance outcomes. He highlighted that senior management is responsible for providing strategic direction, mobilising resources, removing bottlenecks and fostering a performance-oriented culture.
Inter-agency meeting in Mombasa reviews Kenya’s National Maritime Security Risk Register to fortify safety in seas
The updated Risk Register is expected to guide strategic planning, operational coordination, policy development and resource allocation in the maritime sector. It will also bolster Kenya’s compliance with international maritime security obligations while reinforcing national efforts to secure shipping lanes, ports and inland waters.
Striking staff at Kenya’s main airport end two-day boycott after return-to-work agreement was reached
Kenya Airways, in a statement, said it was in the process of normalizing the schedule and that “normal operations will resume within the next 24 hours.”
Why Ruto’s unfinished 35-year old KPC-Ngong Forest land fraud is a stain Kenya’s judiciary
The key legal question was whether the land had been properly degazetted (legally removed from forest status) before it was subdivided, allocated and later sold.
Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84
Jesse Jackson famously marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and was with King the morning he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Why Nyerere called fairy love story of Botswana of President Seretse Khama and his White wife Ruth ‘one of the great love stories of the world’
And three governments – Britain, South Africa and Seretse’s own tribal council – mobilised to stop them. Seretse wrote to his uncle Tshekedi, the regent who had raised him since his father’s death, announcing his intention to marry Ruth. Tshekedi was horrified.
Report says racism aimed at Aborigines, Africans, Chinese and Asians is ravaging Australian universities
Based on a survey of more than 76,000 students and staff at 42 universities, the report said that 70 per cent of respondents reported experiencing indirect racism.
Hotels in Kenya’s coast region diversify into wellness tourism as demand surges
The resort now offers structured fitness activities including aqua aerobics, beach jogging and gym sessions aimed at promoting cardiovascular health and managing lifestyle-related conditions.
