Population policy: Kenya told to wean itself of donor overdependence, mobilise own resources
Michael Oruru said the goal of the Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2023 was meant to enable the country to attain a high quality of life for the population by ensuring they were secure, healthy, broadly educated, trained and empowered to carry out sustainable development.
White South African woman sentenced to life in prison for selling six-year old daughter to a witchdoctor
Smith – whose full name is Racquel Chantel Smith – was initially a figure of sympathy when her daughter went missing. Community members rallied around her and volunteered to help police search for Joshlin in the sand dunes near their poor neighbourhood of shacks
Leave Not, James: Kenya celebrates life and times of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, East Africa’s foremost literary scholar
Following Ngũgĩ’s death at 87 in Bedford, Georgia, Kenyans are reminiscing about the days his literature criticised an autocratic administration and was arrested and imprisoned in the 1970s.
How Elgeyo Marakwet known in sports-world as ‘Home of Champions’ evolved into fortress of rogue agents who exploit young athletes
According to Secretary of County Secondary School Sports Association Christopher Sitienei, whenever there is a secondary school sports completion, among the many who turn up to cheer the young athletes are coaches whose main target is to identify talents.
Nearly 220 families resettled in Marsabit, recovered livestock given back to owners after spell of inter-ethnic hostilities
Humanitarian aid is reaching the victims with ease, he said. The county commissioner said the national government has delivered relief supplies consisting of 330 bags of rice and 285 bags of beans while the county government donated 100 bags of rice and 20 cartons of cooking oil.
Re-greening East African biocultural landscape and combating biological desertification needs ‘analogue forestry’
The idea of analogue forestry needs to be integrated in school and university curricula because superior to other methods of re-greening biocultural landscapes where natural forests were integral to the landscapes but have been receding because human activities. The method can also be used to restore our agro-ecological systems to enhance food security.
Too young to carry it alone: Struggles of teenage pregnancy and parenting in Nairobi’s unforgiving slums
Economic hardship compounds these realities. Only 25 per cent of young mothers have access to paid work – mostly informal jobs like laundry or hairdressing. Nearly three-quarters struggle to meet their children’s basic needs, often relying on relatives for childcare.
Lake Turkana fish: How corrupt Kenyan officials make a killing in world’s largest permanent desert lake, impoverish local communities
While data on quantities and earnings from legal fish exports is scanty, international investigators, Institute for Security Studies, estimate the 300 tonnes of fish valued at over $1.7 million from Lake Turkana is smuggled to DRC and Zambia.
ODM officials accuse party secretariat of delaying to release grassroots election results, say void is rocking party
Gem Branch Youth Organising Secretary Alfred Opondo said attempts by a section of the party officials in the headquarters to interfere with the duly elected grassroots officials was likely to affect the party performance.
Rights groups sound alarm over exponential surge in child labour in gold mining fields in western Kenya
He said from Kuria, Migori, Nyatike, Rongo, Awendo and Uriri sub-counties, cases of child labour perpetrated in goldmines, within household and in agricultural sector was rife and should be discouraged immediately.
