Prices of maize flour, a staple in Kenya, rise sharply hours after agriculture minister assurances
Last week while speaking at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4) at the UN offices in Nairobi, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe dismissed claims that maize and, consequently, maize flour prices were going to increase further.
Kenya’s finance minister casts starry outlook as he launches Economic Survey 2025
The economic survey 2025 launched on Wednesday by Mr Mbadi shows that the general growth decline was occasioned by multiple factors, despite enhanced government support to the sector in addition to increased crop yields and livestock production in the review period.
Dear Ugandans, Museveni and his disciples maybe guilty of ‘environmental stupidity’ but you gave him an open cheque for the travesty
Often the kind of education a society propagates will determine whether or not a people have the knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insights necessary to mange and conserve the environment wisely, meaningfully and effectively.
Uprooted by cattle rustlers and bad weather from homes, banditry victims in Baringo blast President Ruto for negligence
Owing to insecurity and the torrential rains that are pounding the region currently, many people have been displaced and are in urgent need of food and shelter, besides the high risk of contracting water-borne diseases besides malaria.
It’s coming home: Renowned for talent and love for sports, Kakamega rewarded with ticket to host East Africa Community school games
High school students from the East African Community member-states Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and host Kenya will flock to the county that is in history books as the first to build a football stadium in East, Central and Southern Africa – Bukhungu Stadium or Football Cathedral t locals.
Think about us too: Over 500,00 people in Daadab Refugee Camp in Kenya petition US President Trump to rethink aid freeze
Siyad Tawane, another refugee at the same camp, regretted that several health facilities are on the verge of closure as a result of the USAID funding freeze.
Stanbic PMI: Rise in business activity hoists Kenya’s private sector growth to 27-month high in April
Strengthening customer demand led to the fastest rise in new orders since February 2022, prompting businesses to expand output and increase purchasing activities.
Kenyan minister tells African conference ‘food independence and sovereignty’ is possible
The meeting preceded the 2021 UN Secretary-General-convened Food Systems Summit, which aimed at drawing attention to the urgent need to accelerate progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a food systems approach, and a follow-up of UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) held in 2023.
Kenya turns to eco-friendly pesticides to raise maize yield from current two metric tonnes per acre
As Kenya continues to battle pest challenges and import dependency, innovations like those from Rainbow Company, combined with government-backed programs, offer hope for a more productive and sustainable maize sector.
Echoes of 1969 rotten egg attack on Kenya’s founding President Jomo Kenyatta as leaders condemn ‘shoe-missile’ attack on incumbent
Speculation about the murder spread in Lake Victoria region like a wildfire, with allegations rife of assassination by the powers-that-be. The murder, according to the allegations, was intended to divert attention from a BBC documentary that places President Ruto’s government at the centre of the killing of 62 (police’s figure is 52) young Kenyans during last year’s anti-2024-25 Finance Bill protests by mainly the youths or Gen-Z or Generation Z.
