Kenya turns to adventure tourism, cultural tourism and sports to push up revenue from hospitality industry

Kenya turns to adventure tourism, cultural tourism and sports to push up revenue from hospitality industry

International tourism has increased by 60 per cent with one million increase in the number of international visitors enhancing tourism earnings to Ksh184.11 billion ($1.420 million).

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Kenya push to raise food production Police impound fake fertilizer, maize seeds

Kenya push to raise food production Police impound fake fertilizer, maize seeds

Police and Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officers (DCI) inspected suspected counterfeit fertilisers and maize seedlings recovered from a home in Lubinu, Mumias East Sub-County of Kakamega County. Police are holding three suspects, including the owner of the home and have impounded a lorry that was found loading the fake fertiliser as DCI officers launch further investigations into the alleged scam.

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Kenya’s agriculture financing rises by $30m as the East African nation aims to up food production

Kenya’s agriculture financing rises by $30m as the East African nation aims to up food production

FINAS Summit Director Charity Mutegi, said the FINAS Summit will bring together stakeholders from various sectors, including policy-makers, the public and private sectors, financial institutions, agricultural technology providers, and farmers, to discuss challenges and solutions in financing agri-food systems sustainability.

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Museveni’s military populism and Bobi Wine’s generational populism in robs Uganda of democracy

Museveni’s military populism and Bobi Wine’s generational populism in robs Uganda of democracy

Uganda, community loyalty and ideological loyalty are being built through ideas such Saccos and programmes such as Bonna Baggagawale, Myooga, Operation Wealth Creation and Parish Development Model and also the so-called National Ideological School at Kyankwanzi.

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World ally Championship 2025: Finsco Africa powers women’s participation in Kenya’s edition of WRC

World ally Championship 2025: Finsco Africa powers women’s participation in Kenya’s edition of WRC

At just 20 years old, Tinashe Gatimu participated in her third consecutive WRC Safari Rally, driving a Subaru Imprezza GC8 with her mother as her navigator. Their presence in this high-adrenaline sport represents resilience, courage and the breaking of gender barriers.

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Congo rebel leader says sanctions, any minerals deal with the US won’t stop fighting in the east

Congo rebel leader says sanctions, any minerals deal with the US won’t stop fighting in the east

Nangaa dismissed Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi’s comments last week that his country — whose mineral resources are estimated to be worth $24 trillion and critical to much of the world’s technology — is looking for a minerals partnership with the US

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UN official warns South Sudan s hurtling towards another civil war he fears will be bloodiest

UN official warns South Sudan s hurtling towards another civil war he fears will be bloodiest

Senior officials affiliated with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) – the main rival militia – have been removed, replaced, detained or forced into hiding.

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Dire straits: Kenya returns to IMF for new loan, denies rift with lender over expenditure review

Dire straits: Kenya returns to IMF for new loan, denies rift with lender over expenditure review

Kenya had failed to meet some targets during the combined seventh and eighth reviews of the programme. However, both were approved by the IMF board last October which triggered payout of the funding tranches linked to those reviews.

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SADC’s failure in Congo: South African military’s strength – the backbone of the brigade – has significantly deteriorated

SADC’s failure in Congo: South African military’s strength – the backbone of the brigade – has significantly deteriorated

Tanzania’s shifting stance added to the confusion. Tanzania chose not to participate in the East African Community Regional Force deployed to eastern DRC before SAMIDRC. Although initially supportive of SAMIDRC, it gradually moved towards a neutral position.

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Al Shabaab terrorist group incursions on Kenyan soil on the rise as six police officers are killed

Al Shabaab terrorist group incursions on Kenyan soil on the rise as six police officers are killed

Al Shabaab has been fighting for years to overthrow Somalia’s central government and establish its own rule in the Horn of Africa country based on its own strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.

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