Kisumu’s fisheries and aquaculture centre plans to raise fingerlings production from current 28 million annually

Kisumu’s fisheries and aquaculture centre plans to raise fingerlings production from current 28 million annually

Construction of Phase One at a cost of Kshh1.3 billion ($10.1 million), which started in November 2024, is in progress and is currently 27 per cent complete.

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Nearly 220 families resettled in Marsabit, recovered livestock given back to owners after spell of inter-ethnic hostilities

Nearly 220 families resettled in Marsabit, recovered livestock given back to owners after spell of inter-ethnic hostilities

Humanitarian aid is reaching the victims with ease, he said. The county commissioner said the national government has delivered relief supplies consisting of 330 bags of rice and 285 bags of beans while the county government donated 100 bags of rice and 20 cartons of cooking oil.

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Re-greening East African biocultural landscape and combating biological desertification needs ‘analogue forestry’

Re-greening East African biocultural landscape and combating biological desertification needs ‘analogue forestry’

The idea of analogue forestry needs to be integrated in school and university curricula because superior to other methods of re-greening biocultural landscapes where natural forests were integral to the landscapes but have been receding because human activities. The method can also be used to restore our agro-ecological systems to enhance food security.

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As Kenyan president gloated about robust economic rally, World Bank lowered 2025 projections due to private sector squeezed

As Kenyan president gloated about robust economic rally, World Bank lowered 2025 projections due to private sector squeezed

“Domestic borrowing, coupled with high lending rates, risk crowding out the private sector,” Naomi Mathenge, a senior economist at the World Bank, told a briefing on the Kenya Economic Update report, which is usually published twice a year.

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UN awards 2025 Mandela Prize to Canadian Brenda Reynolds and Kenyan Kennedy Odede

UN awards 2025 Mandela Prize to Canadian Brenda Reynolds and Kenyan Kennedy Odede

Living in Kenya’s Kibera Slum for 23 years, Kennedy Odede went from living on the street at 10 years old to global recognition when he was named one of Time magazine’s 2024 100 Most Influential People.

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Transitioning from environmental illiteracy to environmental literacy in Uganda

Transitioning from environmental illiteracy to environmental literacy in Uganda

However, if nomadic pastoral people from elsewhere continue to have a field day on our biocultural landscapes, the method won’t be applicable and our agroecological farming systems will continue to disappear. This will be confounded by the ecologically and environmentally empty socioeconomic models such as Myooga, Operation Wealth Creation and Parish Development Model, which only focus on financial and economic gains of the beneficiaries at the expense of natural ecologies and environments

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Too young to carry it alone: Struggles of teenage pregnancy and parenting in Nairobi’s unforgiving slums

Too young to carry it alone: Struggles of teenage pregnancy and parenting in Nairobi’s unforgiving slums

Economic hardship compounds these realities. Only 25 per cent of young mothers have access to paid work – mostly informal jobs like laundry or hairdressing. Nearly three-quarters struggle to meet their children’s basic needs, often relying on relatives for childcare.

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Ministry of health and Aga Khan University Hospital sign deal to enable kidney and cardiac patients to get treatment in Kenya

Ministry of health and Aga Khan University Hospital sign deal to enable kidney and cardiac patients to get treatment in Kenya

Under the agreement, AKUH will offer subsidised kidney transplants and cardiac surgeries, including coronary artery bypass grafting and valve replacements, to patients who meet medical and financial eligibility criteria.

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Regional government now engages Kenya oil and gas working group on exploration in the north

Regional government now engages Kenya oil and gas working group on exploration in the north

KOGWG Coordinator Muturi wa Kamau highlighted the group’s role in strengthening governance structures in the oil and gas industry. Kamau noted that improving the land registration system was central to the group’s mandate, as it enhances transparency, public participation and accountability in the sector.

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Lake Turkana fish: How corrupt Kenyan officials make a killing in world’s largest permanent desert lake, impoverish local communities

Lake Turkana fish: How corrupt Kenyan officials make a killing in world’s largest permanent desert lake, impoverish local communities

While data on quantities and earnings from legal fish exports is scanty, international investigators, Institute for Security Studies, estimate the 300 tonnes of fish valued at over $1.7 million from Lake Turkana is smuggled to DRC and Zambia.

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