East African Community ministers’ meeting in Kisumu resolves to intensify conservation of Lake Victoria
LVBC Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire lauded development partners working with the agency to conserve the lake. Dr Masinde added that LVBC was on course to full implementation of a number of projects with several others lined up to give impetus to the conservation drive.
Budget making: Central Kenya root for prioritisation of key sectors in 2025 Finance Bill
Mukurwe-ini Member of Parliament John Kaguchia called for reorganisation of the budget to prioritize health, agriculture and education sectors. Citing the combined Ksh17 billion allocation for the Executive office the president, the deputy and State House, the Ksh51 billion allocation for the National Intelligence Service and the Ksh200 billion for Ministry of Defence examples of fiscal excesses, Kaguchia also cautioned the government against reneging on the promise to cut down on unnecessary spending.
Cassava is no longer a crop for desperate times, it is transforming lives in Elgeyo Marakwet’s Kerio Valley
While challenges such as lack of irrigation, pests, and limited access to mechanized tools remain, the growing success stories from Kerio Valley offer hope. Experts believe cassava could be the key to building climate resilience not only in Elgeyo Marakwet but across Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands.
Lake Basin Commission has new headquarters in Kisumu that cost East African Community $3.6 million
Kenya’s State Department for Public Works under the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, and Housing and Urban Development oversaw the construction. The project aligns with broader regional objectives, including the EAC Vision 2050, which prioritizes environmental sustainability, infrastructure development, and regional cohesion.
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.
