Police in Nairobi drop probe into allegations Worldcoin illegally obtained Kenyans’ data
Worldcoin is being rolled out by Tools for Humanity, a company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Its website says it has signed up 5.7 million users across more than 160 countries.
Somalia wants withdrawal of African peacekeepers delayed further as fears Islamist resurgence rise
The European Union and United States, the top funders of the AU force in Somalia, have sought to reduce the peacekeeping operation due to concerns about long-term financing and sustainability, four diplomatic sources and a senior Ugandan official said.
Over 4,000 die of snakebites, 7,000 are paralysed every year as it is hard to find cure in Kenya
Kenya imports antivenom from Mexico and India, but antivenom is usually region-specific, meaning a treatment in one region might not effectively treat snakebites in another. Part of the work of Maranga and colleague Fredrick Angotte is extracting venom from one of Africa’s most dangerous snakes, the black mamba. The venom can help produce the next generation of antivenom.
Police fire teargas, water cannons at tax protesters in Nairobi as demos sweep Kenya
Protesters say the tax rises will hurt the economy and raise the cost of living for Kenyans who are already struggling to make ends meet. A parliamentary panel urged the government on Tuesday to scrap some new taxes proposed in its finance bill, including new ones on car ownership, bread, cooking oil and financial transactions. The panel also recommended that a fuel tax towards road maintenance be increased.
India lays out plans for increased trade and medical technology cooperation with Kenya
Rohit Vadhwana revealed that very soon of some of the biggest hospitals in India would set base in Kenya triggering more investments of the Asian country. He said there was need for a roundtable between Kenya and India to explore more areas business cooperation particularly in the healthcare sector noting that India was the largest investor in Kenya and a systemic approach would enhance trade between the two countries.
My beef with Uganda’s ‘educated fools’: University professors steal and thievery thrives in highest institutions of learning
If we are to be effective in dealing with the educated looters and/or educated thieves, we must embrace Bet Kamya’s (IGG’s) or Singapore’s successful method of fighting corruption: the Life Style Approach, which matches legitimate income to the riches of the educated looter or educated thief. Later will be too late. Anything else may relapse into pettifoggery in the courtrooms, with most educated looters and educated thieves cleared of any wrong doing even if there is overwhelming evidence that what they have is not commensurate with their legitimate income, and must have been accumulated only by taking what is not theirs by virtue of their offices.
Success and failure are never strange bedfellows, they coexist and are often mutually exclusive
In 1983-1985, while waiting to defend my MSc thesis in zoology (the Biology of Conservation) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, I taught at Jinja Senior Secondary School at both O-and A-level. Some of the students I taught were Katumba-Wamala, Paul Kagame, Sudhir Ruperalia and Hirji. Since Jinja Senior Secondary School was the largest school in Uganda then, many young people interacted with me in school and are performing different functions in different station of life. I cannot remember all of them. If some of them read this article, let them contact me. They are all a measure of my success at that school.
Haiti police chiefs in Nairobi for meetings with Kenyan commanders prior to deployment of UN mission to fight gangs
A UN-approved stabilisation mission to Haiti that started in June 2004 was marred by a sexual abuse scandal and the introduction of cholera, which killed nearly 10,000 people. The mission ended in October 2017.
Palpable public anger drives a finance committee into rushed removal of tax items in Kenyan budget
This year’s finance bill aims to raise an extra 346.7 billion Kenyan shillings ($2.71 billion) in additional revenue, finance minister Njuguna Ndung’u said last week.
Weeks after Kenyans bashed president for ‘living large’ hundreds take to streets to protest punitive taxes
Opposition figure Kalonzo Musyoka said weekly protests would resume if the finance bill is approved as proposed. Legislators are due to debate the bill starting Wednesday with a vote scheduled for on Monday.
