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.
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.
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.
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.
Retirement agency chief says seven out of ten retired Kenyans are struggling to make ends meet
Kiptanui observed that Kenyans believe retirement saving is not a requirement and so have not embraced savings as a culture which is set to equip them with the ability to cover their expenses without relying on assistance from relatives.
Parliamentary committee chair says Kenya plans 4.5 per cent budget deficit cut in 2025-26 fiscal year
Speaking in an interview during the public hearings on the FY 2025-26 Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure in Eldoret town, in Uasin Gishu County, the budget committee chair revealed that budget presented before them by the executive totals to about Ksh4.2 trillion ($32.4 billion).
Safe crops civil society activists in Kenya hail state for ban on ‘highly hazardous pesticides’
The activists identified Mancozeb, Paraquat, Glyphosate, Carbendazim, and several synthetic pyrethroids such as Lambda-cyhalothrin, Cypermethrin, Deltamethrin and other pesticides that are extensively applied across Kenya’s staple and export-oriented crops and have repeatedly been documented to pose significant acute and chronic effects.
