Sugar boss: Kenya ready to drive Africa’s transition in sugar sector to power bioeconomy
Jude Chesire disclosed that Kenya’s sugar reforms strategy centres on scaling up ethanol production from molasses, expanding green energy generation using bagasse for co-generation and maximising industrial use of molasses to ensure zero waste across the value chain.
State mum as seafarers union raises red flag over abuse of Kenyan workers in high seas that includes unpaid wages, illegal detention
However, despite these efforts, SUK Secretary General Atie Ramadhan says many seafarers remain trapped in poverty, facing exploitation and earning below standard wages.
Middle East conflict sends fuel prices in Addis Ababa sky-rocketing as Ethiopia prepares to celebrate Fasika or Orthodox Easter
Ethiopia follows the Eastern Orthodox calendar, different from the widely used Gregorian calendar. In the East African country, Easter comes after a 55-day fasting from animal products, mainly meat, milk, butter and eggs.
Tanzanian government weighs possibility raising prices as Middle East crisis persists
Tanzanian Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba said on Sunday that the government is undertaking a comprehensive assessment of rising fuel prices, emphasising a cautious approach to avoid hasty decisions that could worsen the situation. Speaking to residents in the Chamwino District of the Dodoma Region, Nchemba said the ongoing evaluation is...
Beyond the disciplinarity: Modern university detests teamwork, glorifies ‘professor’ as the epitome of knowledge and a living silo
Philosophy was not a department but the very architecture of thinking. Its recent closure at Makerere University (reportedly for political reasons) is not merely an administrative cut; it is a symbolic amputation of the faculty that once integrated all knowing.
Ugandan court jails former minister Agnes Nandutu for theft of iron-sheets for the poor
Nandutu was convicted for her role in the diversion of 2,000 iron sheets intended for vulnerable communities in the semi-arid north-eastern region of Karamoja.
Kennedy suicide jinx: Chilling detail of suicide that made Mary Richardson Kennedy’s doctor think ‘maybe she didn’t want to die’
No suicide note was ever publicly confirmed to be found, although Vincent details a frantic search by Mary’s siblings hours after her death that resulted in RFK Jr being asked to leave the property.
Preventable blindness: Kisumu County embarks on free cataract surgery with only two doctors for 1.3 million people
Findings from previous medical camps in the area point to a heavy local burden. In one outreach in Kombura, Nyando Sub-county, about one in three people screened were diagnosed with cataracts.
Farmers in Kenya ramp up push for GM maize adoption, citing Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria as case studies
The legal status of Bt maize has been marked with years of uncertainty, with shifting court rulings following the government’s 2022 decision to lift a decade-long ban on GMO cultivation and importation.
Why African universities are ‘centres of docility’ that produce ‘educated fools’ capable only of citing narrow theories
I explain my deliberate rejection of the popular but deceitful banner of ‘multidisciplinarity,’ and lay out my vision for a new ecosystem of higher education institutions: the interversity, crossversity, transversity and extraversity.
