Ministry of environment contemplates charcoal licensing to protect forest in central Kenya
Each bag or sack must be clearly labelled with detailed information, including the producer’s name and address, the specific area and county of production, the weight of the charcoal, the tree species used in its production, and the technology employed in its creation.
Distraught residents of Kajiado, home to Kenya’s largest wildlife sanctuaries, call for speedy reparations by KWS
William Tajiri, a resident of Elang’ata Enkima lamented that the elephants also destroy their crops when they come looking for water near their bomas and wants KWS to drill boreholes and water pans for the wildlife far away from their bomas to curb human-wildlife conflicts.
How community policing is silencing guns and banditry in northern Kenya, promoting livestock trade
Speaking during IMPACT community accountability and feedback forum in Juakali, Laikipia County, Rachachore said the two-year campaign has resulted in some 62 moran age group leaders abandoning criminal activities and become peace ambassadors.
Late Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai celebrated by her Green Belt Movement and Conservation Alliance of Kenya
Speaking during the event, the Conservation Alliance of Kenya, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Itela, emphasised the urgent need for environmental stewardship, calling on Kenyans to take personal responsibility for conservation efforts.
Pollution: Environmental court in Kenya’s coastal town of Malindi to deliver verdict on Lamu Coal Power Plant
Save Lamu also filed a cross appeal contesting certain aspects of the NET ruling, including the conclusion that the analysis of alternative technologies was sufficient, which the tribunal did not consider.
Kenya, Egypt, Cameroon and South Sudan implicated again in smuggling of Sudan’s gum Arabic used in manufacture of Coca-Cola
In the year after Sudan’s civil war began, the country’s gum arabic exports to the EU fell, even as exports from countries like Egypt, Kenya, Cameroon and South Sudan rose.
Kenya’s ombudsman pledges to assist regional government to draft access to information law
Siaya Executive Committee Member for Environment Jacqueline Oduol said that, although the county has grievance and redress mechanisms, there was no policy to guide the same.
Uganda’s Tragedy of the Commons: How President Museveni destroys environment as citizenry look on helplessly
The projects the president has personally initiated as public innovations include Bujagali dam, Bonna Bagaggawale, Myooga, Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) and Parish Development Model (PDM). Virtually all of them are predicated on the environment in the fashion of “Destroy and then Build”.
Opposition chief Raila Odinga gets nod of Kenyan coast to form ‘broadest-based’ government with Ruto
The former prime minister said the leaders had also expressed concern over the late disbursements of funds to devolved units, poor infrastructure and the implementation of projects such as the building of markets and affordable houses.
Serious funding questions raised as new Somali peace support takes over from previous under-resourced military mission
Past missions – the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and ATMIS – depended heavily on donor funding. The EU paid for troops’ stipends, while the UN provided logistical support packages to the missions and Somalia Security Forces through the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS).
