Rhinos are returned to a plateau in central Kenya, decades after poachers wiped them out
The successful move of 21 eastern black rhinos to a new home will give them space to breed and could help increase the population of the critically endangered animals. It was Kenya’s biggest rhino relocation ever.
Ecuador, Haiti set to become main sources of refugees fleeing insecurity and climate change
In Ecuador, conflict between government forces and criminal groups is escalating, the IRC said. Last month, a wave of violence resurged after a gang leader escaped from prison, shown most dramatically when an armed group stormed into a live TV news broadcast.
Haiti reveals it is fine tuning deal with Kenya for deployment of police as 800 die gang warfare
The deployment was requested by Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in October 2022 and approved by the UN Security Council a year later. But it has since encountered multiple legal obstacles as gang warfare in Haiti’s capital and beyond continues to rise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
