After genocide, Rwanda re-organised its education system to inject quality that Uganda can borrow a leaf from

After genocide, Rwanda re-organised its education system to inject quality that Uganda can borrow a leaf from

Rwanda was also affected by globalisation, with all its “vices” of privatisation, massification and marketisation of education. However, patriotism, which is not officially taught like we do in Uganda, pushed the Rwandese government to rethink what the education system was producing. It rethought the products from the private education institutions and the entire education system.

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Long orphaned, sorghum farming makes grand return to western Kenya as indigenous crops reclaim niche

Long orphaned, sorghum farming makes grand return to western Kenya as indigenous crops reclaim niche

Sorghum is Africa’s second most important cereal because it is the primary source of daily calories for approximately 300 million people. However, the crop had vanished from Kenyan farms as a result of large-scale maize farming in areas that traditionally grew sorghum and its ‘sister’ crop, millet.

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Commecial fish farming becomes key investment area as blue economy takes root in rural Kenya

Commecial fish farming becomes key investment area as blue economy takes root in rural Kenya

County industrialisation and trade executive Kassim Were says successful implementation of the programme that targets 7,000 fish ponds that will supply five tonnes of fish per day will further diversify the local economy that hitherto depends on sugarcane, maize and dairy farming. However, continued subdivision of agricultural land into smallholdings has rendered available land for farming uneconomical for commercial production of the two crops and livestock keeping, hence the steep decline in output.

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Massachusetts murder suspect Kevin Kangethe rearrested in Kenya after a week on the run

Massachusetts murder suspect Kevin Kangethe rearrested in Kenya after a week on the run

Kangethe was arrested in Embulbul, Kajiado County on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city on Tuesday evening as he sought refuge at one of his relatives’ homes, Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said.

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Dirty tricks hurt Kenya as Sarah Chepchirchir is handed 8-year ban for second doping violation

Dirty tricks hurt Kenya as Sarah Chepchirchir is handed 8-year ban for second doping violation

Sarah Chepchirchir, who won the Tokyo Marathon in 2017, had the option to have the ban reduced by one year by formally admitting to the charge, but failed to do so by the deadline of February 11.

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Dire straits: Kenya’s double-digit debt costs sign of the tough times, Nigeria and South Africa hit too

Dire straits: Kenya’s double-digit debt costs sign of the tough times, Nigeria and South Africa hit too

Six of the 15 countries that issued bonds with coupons at or above 9.5 per cent after 2008 have since defaulted, analysts at Morgan Stanley have pointed out – Venezuela, Lebanon, Mozambique, Suriname, Ukraine, Ghana and Ecuador.

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Dozens presumed dead after an overloaded boat capsizes on Lake Kivu in DR Congo

Dozens presumed dead after an overloaded boat capsizes on Lake Kivu in DR Congo

Deadly boating accidents occur frequently in Congo, where crews often overload small wooden vessels. Earlier in January, 22 people died on Lake Maî-Ndombe.

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Gi-Go: How Museveni family choked quality and promoted ‘castesm’ in education system in Uganda

Gi-Go: How Museveni family choked quality and promoted ‘castesm’ in education system in Uganda

One thing must be emphasised. It is under the sovereign jurisdiction of the First Family in the education system that massification, privatisation, commercialization, marketisation and stratification of education has occurred. In this article, I have actually been concerned with esterification of education as a function of the First Family’s choices in education and their consequences on Ugandan society in the short, medium and long-term.

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First degree murder suspect wanted in US breaches security at Nairobi police station, escapes

First degree murder suspect wanted in US breaches security at Nairobi police station, escapes

Kangethe, 40, had been detained pending a ruling on whether he should be extradited to face a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of Margaret Mbitu on October 31, 2023.

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Unhappy Kenya media giants preparing to take government to court over advertising revenue

Unhappy Kenya media giants preparing to take government to court over advertising revenue

The Daily Nation, the Standard, and Mediamax’s People Daily, which had previously co-distributed MyGov, all bid for the new contract, quoting prices between two to three times higher, according to a government source.

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