Kenya starts industrial mapping for up to date data and boost sector growth
The exercise will integrate geospatial technologies to create a physical and digital directory of industries, geo-code industrial locations, and generate a detailed assessment report identifying opportunities for industrial expansion and development.
Beauty and the Beast: Kenya battles poisonous cosmetics as women constitute burgeoning market
According to the KEBS website, some of the skin lightening products include Jaribu Skin Lightening Lotion, Amira Skin Lightening Lotion, A3 Cleartouch Complexion Lotion, Fair White Body Clearing Milk and Precieux Treatment Beauty Lotion, Movate, Jaribu, Rico, Miki, Mekako, Tura, Fair lady, and Jambo.
Study finds adults exposed to chemicals used in food packaging, cosmetics and printed receipts suffer memory loss and cognitive decline
Using data from nearly 900 US adults with an average age of 69, researchers found that combined exposure to phenols, parabens and especially phthalates (PAEs) was linked to lower scores on standard tests of brain function, particularly among men.
Prices of maize flour, a staple in Kenya, rise sharply hours after agriculture minister assurances
Last week while speaking at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4) at the UN offices in Nairobi, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe dismissed claims that maize and, consequently, maize flour prices were going to increase further.
Kenya’s finance minister casts starry outlook as he launches Economic Survey 2025
The economic survey 2025 launched on Wednesday by Mr Mbadi shows that the general growth decline was occasioned by multiple factors, despite enhanced government support to the sector in addition to increased crop yields and livestock production in the review period.
‘A scientist walked outside to have lunch with a girlfriend’ and leaked Covid from lab,’ Trump jokes as he pauses gain-of-function research funding
Critics argue that it has a “dual-use” potential, as the pathogens can be used for bioweapons research and development. The question of Covid-19 origins has largely become a partisan debate that sees it as either a natural spill-over or a lab leak – although other researchers argue it could have been an intentional leak, or that there was no pandemic virus.
Think about us too: Over 500,00 people in Daadab Refugee Camp in Kenya petition US President Trump to rethink aid freeze
Siyad Tawane, another refugee at the same camp, regretted that several health facilities are on the verge of closure as a result of the USAID funding freeze.
UN document details how President Trump plans to disrupt global finance
Among specific points in the text that refer to the systemic reform, the document shows the US wants to remove a reference to a “package of reforms” for sustainable development. It wants to replace a line promising to “commit to reform the international financial architecture” with a pledge to “recognise the need to enhance its resilience and effectiveness in responding to present and future challenges and crises.”
Stanbic PMI: Rise in business activity hoists Kenya’s private sector growth to 27-month high in April
Strengthening customer demand led to the fastest rise in new orders since February 2022, prompting businesses to expand output and increase purchasing activities.
Kenyan minister tells African conference ‘food independence and sovereignty’ is possible
The meeting preceded the 2021 UN Secretary-General-convened Food Systems Summit, which aimed at drawing attention to the urgent need to accelerate progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a food systems approach, and a follow-up of UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) held in 2023.
