Africa Fertiliser Financing Mechanism commits $2m to support 100,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya
The fertiliser market’s leading players include importers, blenders, and the Kenyan government, which runs a fertiliser subsidy programme. In 2021, Kenya imported 758,000 tonnes of chemical fertilisers. Kenyan farmers pay $35 for a 50 kilogramme fertiliser bag.
Kenya could lose up to 7.25 per cent of GDP to climate change by 2050 – World Bank report
With about 90 per cent of its electricity coming from renewable sources like hydro-generation and geothermal wells, Kenya is well positioned to provide solutions to other countries looking to lower their emissions, the report said.
IMF to lend Kenya additional $938m,which central bank hopes will pad weak local currency
Subject to the approval of the Washington-based fund’s executive board, Kenya will have access to a total of $3.88 billion, which would bring its total funding under the existing Extended Fund Facility and Extended Credit Facility arrangements to $4.43 billion, the IMF said.
Kenya parliament okays deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti, despite opposition
Ms Boss called a vote and lawmakers approved the deployment, citing a report that said the deployment meets the constitutional requirement to take into account public views, which were collected between November 2 and 9.
Terrorism experts say Somalia’s Al Shabaab is celebrating Israel-Hamas war for relevance
This is not the first time al-Shabaab has inserted itself into the Israel-Palestine conflict. It previously claimed that its deadly 2019 attack on a hotel and office complex in Nairobi, Kenya, was a response to international recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Britain’s Supreme Court set to rule on London’s plan to relocate asylum-seekers to Rwanda
In December the High Court in London ruled that the Rwanda plan is legal, but that the government must consider the individual circumstances of each case before putting anyone on a plane.
Carbon credits: Kenya gears up for direct air capture push in ‘Great Carbon Valley’
Kenya is the world’s seventh-largest producer of geothermal energy. Geothermal and other renewable energy sources account for around 90 per cent of grid electricity in the country, meaning that DAC machines can operate without themselves generating substantial emissions.
UN suspends pullout of African Union troops from Somalia as battles with terrorist cell rages
Somalia’s government last year launched a “total war” on the al-Qaida-linked terror group al-Shabab, which controls parts of rural central and southern Somalia. The group has for more than a decade carried out devastating attacks while exploiting clan divisions and extorting millions of dollars a year in its quest to impose an Islamic state.
‘No money, no police’, Kenya dithers on deal with UN to send security forces to Haiti gangland
Nearly 200,000 Haitians have now lost their homes to gangs who pillage neighbourhoods operated by rivals in their quest to control more territory. Many of the displaced are now sleeping outside or in makeshift settlements that are crowded and extremely unsanitary.
Why Museveni should be wary of ‘floating’ population: Grabbing frenzy has created landless, unrepentant and angry Ugandans
If the poor realise what you are doing to them – depriving them of livelihood by grabbing their land by first making them so impoverished that they are hapless and hopeless – you have no peace and belonging in the long-term, however much you want to belong.
