Divine message: Catholic cleric blasts Kenya president’s reckless borrowing, misuse of loans
The cleric further termed human organ trafficking as unacceptable saying a person can donate their organ upon demise through a will to be used by patients who want it.
Row over Governor Orengo’s rejection of Kenya’s so-called broad-based government lifts veil off age-old revulsion of Odinga family in Nyanza
James Orengo is alleged to have ferried mourners to the funeral to show his might against the duo and his actions have elicited strong reactions with some terming it as an embarrassment to his party leader Raila Odinga in the presence of President William Ruto.
350,000 children in Garissa vaccinated as Kenya ramps up push to check spread of polio from Ethiopia, Somalia
Garissa county polio champion Abdi Guhad said they had to network and convince the community members some who were reluctant to have their children vaccinated.
Rattled high coffee output by neighbours, Kenya plans to revamp its wobbly industry to produce 500,000 tonnes annually
Murang’a governor Irungu Kang’ata said his administration will set aside some funds in the next financial year to support farmers. The funds, he said, will facilitate farmers to increase production, saying from next month, a team from the county government will tour the USA and China to search for a market for Murang’a coffee.
Kenya: ICRISAT unveils strategy to turn Africa’s expansive deserts into food baskets
ICRISAT Deputy Director General for Research and Innovation Stanford Blade observed that the drylands problems are intensifying, becoming fiercer and more frequent, hence the need to strengthen the research and science base.
Kenya’s freedom fighters or Mau Mau veterans say Britain owes them reparations for atrocities suffered
Mau veterans in Narok County are now calling on the government to push the British government to expedite compensation of the few surviving freedom fighters to enable them meet their basic needs in their sunset days. Wanjiku Wagachoka, now aged 102, recalled that her youthful years were spent secretly carrying...
Bluffs and contradiction that were Ugandan kingdoms: Why Museveni created so-called cultural institutions to manipulate politics
The strategy was to de-politicise the defunct kingdoms and make them completely dependent on the centre, which wanted to use them to achieve its political ends. This strategy made the LC1 politically more powerful than “the new cultural leaders”. LC1 or Local Council One is the lowest level of political organisation and administration of government.
As rest of Kenya grapples with medical supplies shortage Kakamega County in the west restocks its 181 health facilities
While presiding over the launch, Governor Fernandez Barasa warned health officials involved in drugs and other medical supplies racketeering that they would apprehended and arraigned in court. Besides, he warned, they risked being sacked.
Long before US brutally sliced international funding there were pointers donors are fatigued
Ignoring US funding to focus on the wider base of donors, the numbers show how humanitarian funding reached a peak in 2022, when donor governments gave 52 per cent above their 2015 levels. When including US funding, however, humanitarian aid continued to rise in 2023 before starting its decline.
Who owns Uganda? How Museveni’s army robbed and destroyed banks, cooperatives factories in Uganda under the spectre of privatisation
The NRM regime’s President Museveni had also declared that the economic tool for development in Uganda would be privatisation because public ownership had failed to spur Uganda’s development. Privatisation has been defined as the transfer of a business, industry, or service from public to private ownership and control. Others see privatisation as the robbery of what belongs to the poor and needy by the rich and powerful.
