Poverty, drug and substance abuse fuelling defilement in Kenya, public tells gender-based violence taskforce
Speaking at the same event, Makueni County Commissioner (CC) Duncan Darusi said that the information the public would give would inform the government on the policy to make in tackling the vices dogging the country.
Arrival of Consolata Missionaries 100 years ago in central Kenya after rejection in Ethiopia changed East African history
The arrival of the first missionaries in the country is arguably one of the most fascinating stories told, written down in history books and passed down from one generation to another, a testament that history is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. Central Kenya’s...
Kenya Forest Service suspends construction of hotel on suspected grabbed land in Ngong Forest
Kenya Forest Service went further to clarify that Ngong Road Forest Association, which is a Community Forest Association that co-manages this forest in collaboration with the service as espoused in the Forest Conservation and Management Act, 2016, has also been struggling with varying opinions within its membership.
While eastern Congo keeps world’s tech running, 70 per cent of local people live abject poverty
The Rubaya mines have been at the centre of the fighting, changing hands between the Congolese government and rebel groups. For over a year now, it has been controlled by the M23 rebels, who earlier this year advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma and Bukavu in a major escalation of the conflict.
After three decades in exile, Rwandans who fled to Congo after 1994 genocide return home
For decades, mineral-rich eastern Congo has been ripped apart by violence from government forces and different armed groups, including the Rwanda-backed M23, whose recent resurgence has escalated the conflict and worsened an already acute humanitarian crisis.
In Uganda environmental impact assessment is usually a presidentialist con to enable Museveni to push his agenda
Corporate sustainability deception or corporate sustainability fraud continues to predominate in the EIA process and to cause great suffering especially in the poor countries where corporates undertake projects and programmes not so much to spur development as to make money.
How deadly gangsters traded crime for food production in Nairobi slum: ‘When police bullet took my brother, I knew I had to change’
Some two million people or 40 per cent of Nairobi’s population of five million people, live in informal settlements, according to CFK Africa, a non-governmental organisation that runs health and poverty reduction programs in such neighbourhoods and is familiar with Vision Bearerz’ work.
250 people killed in deadly Israeli strikes Gaza as visiting Trump helplessly says ‘people are starving’
Israel has faced increasing international isolation over its campaign in Gaza, with even the United States, its staunchest ally, expressing unease over the scale of the destruction and the dire situation caused by its blockade on deliveries of food and other vital aid.
Zimbabwe’s elephant population is rising rapidly, stoking conflicts with villagers over resources
Zimbabwe’s collaring project may offer a way forward. Sixteen elephants, mostly matriarchs, have been fitted with GPS collars, allowing rangers to track entire herds by following their leaders. But Hwange holds about 45,000 elephants, and parks officials say it has capacity for 15,000. Project officials acknowledge a huge gap remains.
Rains are here, desert is in bloom and now roses perfume the air and Moroccan town comes to life
Outside the town, roses span 1,020 hectares (2,520 acres) across the region this year. One hectare (2.5 acres) of roses requires little water and provides more than 120 days of work in a local economy where opportunities are scarce.
