Experts explain how 2030 is critical to Kenya’s economic lift-off, attainment of UN development goals

Experts explain how 2030 is critical to Kenya’s economic lift-off, attainment of UN development goals

According to Prof Jacqueline McGlade of Strathmore University, TVA is an approach that captures the full range of social, environmental and economic impacts both positive and negative of the food system activities.

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How electoral authoritarianism uses democratic institutions to violate liberal democratic norms, human rights in Uganda

How electoral authoritarianism uses democratic institutions to violate liberal democratic norms, human rights in Uganda

At most university campuses the conspiracy of silence reigns, reflecting the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM’s) success story in separating academicism or scholasticism from intellectualism on university campuses.

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Africa 2025 International Association of Deposits Insurers conference lays emphasis on continent’s financial resilience

Africa 2025 International Association of Deposits Insurers conference lays emphasis on continent’s financial resilience

Speaking on behalf of KDIC, Board Chair Hannah Muriithi said the corporation’s mandate goes beyond mere compensation but encompasses promoting sound risk management, timely intervention, and the resolution of troubled institutions.

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UN mission in Haiti on a cliff-hanger one year after deployment of Kenyan police officers starved of personnel, funds, gear

UN mission in Haiti on a cliff-hanger one year after deployment of Kenyan police officers starved of personnel, funds, gear

In a note sent to the UN Security Council last week, Kenyan President William Ruto said 991 troops were currently deployed, mostly Kenyans but also 150 Guatemalans, 78 Salvadorans, 23 Jamaicans, six Bahamians and two Belizeans.

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While environmental ignorance is worst form of ignorance it is is now pursued in East Africa as if it is a virtue and of value

While environmental ignorance is worst form of ignorance it is is now pursued in East Africa as if it is a virtue and of value

Because environment is almost universally seen in physical terms only all our laws and policies for conservation and management of the environment have been skewed towards physical considerations only, which is wrong, immoral and unethical.

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Uganda presidential election: Museveni gunning for five decades – not five years – in power to fight official corruption he’s part of

Uganda presidential election: Museveni gunning for five decades – not five years – in power to fight official corruption he’s part of

The opposition says hundreds of their supporters disappeared or were killed during the last presidential election in 2021 when musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine presented the biggest threat yet to Museveni’s reign.

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Kenya’s plan for 60,000-megawatt nuclear plant in western Kenya on course as it eyes EAC electricity market

Kenya’s plan for 60,000-megawatt nuclear plant in western Kenya on course as it eyes EAC electricity market

Siaya, which is in Lake Victoria Basin, has been identified for the project because of its proximity to the lake. The site of the plant is also strategic as Kenya will export the surplus power to Uganda and other East Africa Community (EAC) countries to the west.

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Listen, President Museveni: Governance without ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset is crime against Uganda

Listen, President Museveni: Governance without ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset is crime against Uganda

Since 2009 I have committed time and energy to develop the collective public ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset of Uganda, East Africa, the Nile Basin, the Great Lakes Region, Africa and the world.

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Song and dance that shut out pangs of hunger in Kenyan refugee camp as Trump’s aid freeze takes heavy toll on youth in exile

Song and dance that shut out pangs of hunger in Kenyan refugee camp as Trump’s aid freeze takes heavy toll on youth in exile

The happiness of these children isn’t guaranteed now as funding cuts have affected operations here. Fewer resources and staff are available to engage the children and ensure their safety. One of the dancers, Gladis Amwony, has lived in Kakuma for eight years now. In recent years, she has started taking part in the Acholi traditional dances to keep her Ugandan roots alive.

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‘We’re getting for US a lot of mineral rights from the Congo’, Trump makes American interests clear in DRC, Rwanda peace deal

‘We’re getting for US a lot of mineral rights from the Congo’, Trump makes American interests clear in DRC, Rwanda peace deal

Rwanda has sent at least 7,000 soldiers over the border, according to analysts and diplomats, in support of the M23 rebels, who seized eastern Congo’s two largest cities and lucrative mining areas in a lightning advance earlier this year.

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