KWS rangers wad off hungry villagers in West Nyakach and Kabodho in Kisumu salivating for meat of dead pythons

KWS rangers wad off hungry villagers in West Nyakach and Kabodho in Kisumu salivating for meat of dead pythons

ACC Orina said the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers were immediately notified and they recovered the burnt carcasses from the hungry villagers who were determined to chop and eat the dead reptiles.

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Reintegrating knowledge and truth: Science, religion and politics are not strange bedfellows

Reintegrating knowledge and truth: Science, religion and politics are not strange bedfellows

Domains such as ethics, aesthetics, and religion fundamentally influence human societies and how those societies interact with science. Topics like aesthetics, morality and theology are actively studied by philosophers, historians and other scholars. However, questions that arise within these domains generally cannot be resolved by science, although they can be informed by science.

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Previously ‘orphaned’ by scientists as ‘primitive’ sorghum is rebounding in western Kenya as a cash crop

Previously ‘orphaned’ by scientists as ‘primitive’ sorghum is rebounding in western Kenya as a cash crop

Prof Hai Chun Jing from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is leading the Chinese partnership in technology development and transfer, put emphasis on the importance of selecting and breeding high-yielding, drought-resistant varieties that can thrive in the diverse agro-ecological zones of Africa.

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Racist undertones: Why Trump, world’s richest man Elon Musk oppose South Africa’s new land law

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Councillor Malefetsane Mokoena meets with a family residing on Meyerskop farm, owned by a wealthy white farmer, with whom they are quarrelling over grazing rights in Free State province, South Africa, on February 6, 2025. Credit: Reuters

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Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns

Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns

Ji said this is concerning given that BBC has expanded its influence through projects like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” that worked with Big Tech forms to identify “misinformation” and “disinformation” on their platforms.

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Doctor prescribes rigid dietary regimen for rural folk in Kenya to keep pancreatic cancer at bay

Doctor prescribes rigid dietary regimen for rural folk in Kenya to keep pancreatic cancer at bay

Dr Philip Blasto says some of the high risk factors include smoking, obesity, having a family history of diabetes adding that some people inherit the gene from their parents that raise their risk of pancreatic cancer.

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Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery

Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery

At dawn, 65-year-old Nelly Mutandwa swapped her pyjamas for leggings, a T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a bottle of water before heading to an unconventional workout spot: a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Surrounded by rows of graves, she joined other members of the Commandos Fitness Club in an hour-long...

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Kenya builds 23,000 cubic litre per hour borehole to serve 500 households, 10,000 heads of cattle in semi-arid north

Kenya builds 23,000 cubic litre per hour borehole to serve 500 households, 10,000 heads of cattle in semi-arid north

Following the completion of the project, the regional and national government say they will follow the project with reinstating the Ksh4.6 billion ($35.604 million) hunger safety net programme (HSNP) that had been paused in eight arid and semi-arid Lands (ASALs) counties for lack of funding four months ago.

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Missing link: While Uganda places premium on mass production in education, it’s surrendered critical thinking, critical analysis and critique

Missing link: While Uganda places premium on mass production in education, it’s surrendered critical thinking, critical analysis and critique

Virtually all our problems do not require just political interventions, which dominate public discourse in Uganda, or chains of critical analysis of and critiques on them, which we are preoccupied with. They require critical thinking.

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Snakes wreak havoc in Kitui County as doctors appeal for help against snakebite menace in Kenya

Snakes wreak havoc in Kitui County as doctors appeal for help against snakebite menace in Kenya

The Kitui County NTDs report calls for sustained effort to create awareness and combat the NTDs, which affect millions of Kenyans and especially in impoverished communities.

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