Understanding High Seas Treaty to protect world oceans and why its implementation has delayed
The treaty also aims to ensure that all countries have fair and equitable access to the ocean’s resources. While it is widely referred to as the High Seas Treaty, officially it is called the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty.
Funding shortfall frustrates researchers and innovators, places at Kenya 96 out of 132 in the world
official data from the National Research Fund shows that the National Treasury allocated a mere Ksh343 million ($2.7 million) for research in the 2023/ 2024 financial year out of the possible Ksh200 billion ($1.544 million) needed annually as per to conform to the 2013 act.
President Museveni’s’ greatest feat in Uganda is creation of intellectual zombies to protect ‘elections without democracy’
People excluded from participation in the leadership and governance of their country are unlikely to acquire the necessary experience and skills in leadership and governance, let alone be interested in their country well enough to feel that they are adequately human and patriotic. No amount of forcing them to be patriotic will yield a patriotic population.
Scramble for Africa enters new age as Russia skirts Western sanctions to ramp up its military footprint
At first, mercenary groups with an arms-length relationship to the Kremlin entered the fray in Africa. But increasingly, Russia is deploying its military might, and intelligence services, more directly.
‘While cooperatives are engines of social economic growth, they are yet to deepen presence in many sectors’
CIC Insurance Group Chairman Nelson Kuria, however, says the cooperative societies in the country have made strong strides, mainly in financial deepening, especially in serving customers outside the mainstream financial ecosystem.
Cooperatives minister spells out plans on how Kenya intends to recover from decades-old coffee production slump
Since coffee farming was introduction in Kenya in the 1890s, its production grew so fast to become a major cash crop, and hit the peak in the 1970s and 1980s. However, the industry faced challenges, including market volatility, policy changes and environmental issues,.
Nairobi hospital starts blood collection service for patients with chronic, acute illnesses or disability
Stakeholders of the new Home Blood Collection Service, pose for a photo at the Nairobi Hospital, on June 9, 2025.
Politicians, government officials in President Ruto’s Uasin Gishu backyard accused of robbing the poor
Bishop Kosgei said demanding Kshh500,000 ($3,862) to Ksh600,000 ($4,635) from jobseekers for employment as a teacher or forcing parents to sell land to buy a job for a child in the police service or the military is tantamount to robbing the poor.
Institute kicks off wildlife census in Kenya’s north-eastern frontier counties of Wajir, Garissa
The 11-day exercise is part of the 2024 to 2025 National Wildlife Census, mandated by the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, which requires regular status reports on Kenya’s wildlife populations.
Kibera slums in Nairobi leads Kenya’s and Africa’s charge into crypto economy as dollar influence queried
Bitcoin, the first and largest crypto, was created in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis as a decentralized digital asset that could act as an alternative method of payment.
