Bukhungu Stadium: ‘Football Cathedral’ on course to regaining pilgrimage status as sports minister assures it’ll be ready for 2027 AFCON

Bukhungu Stadium: ‘Football Cathedral’ on course to regaining pilgrimage status as sports minister assures it’ll be ready for 2027 AFCON

The successful 2023 school ball games brought back memories of 1936 match that saw Western Kenya team that included the likes of Peter Muchuma (captain), Elijah Masinde wa Namene, Musisi, Nate and Elijah Lidonde, among others outsmart Remington FC 3-0 to become the first African team to beat a European team.

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Why environmental studies in Africa should be recognised as multifaceted, diverse pursuit

Why environmental studies in Africa should be recognised as multifaceted, diverse pursuit

Environmental learning by exclusion cannot be environmentally – conscious or environmentally – sensitive. It is the main reason why despite so much investment of time, energy, money and human capital the environment continues to supersonically hopelessly degrade before our own eyes.

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Kakamega County in western Kenya state partnership with IFAD in $7.3m livestock commercialisation project

Between independence in 1963 and the onset of World Bank-prescribed structural adjustment programmes in the early 1980s, western Kenya counties of Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Trans-Nzoia were leading producers of milk.

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Kenya launches integrity plan as sleaze festers in key institutions: police, judiciary and presidency

Kenya launches integrity plan as sleaze festers in key institutions: police, judiciary and presidency

The EACC chairperson Dr David Oginde observed that the KIP launch aligns with Vision 2030, and Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) of the government, and all the other aspirations “that we have as a nation towards having a progressive nation that can attain economic independence.

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Market beckons Kenyan honey producers as US beekeepers report 62 per cent losses as winter wreaks havoc

Market beckons Kenyan honey producers as US beekeepers report 62 per cent losses as winter wreaks havoc

It adds that respondents have lost 1.1 million colonies from late summer through winter, according to the data. Those losses account for 41 per cent of total colonies in the United States, Downey said during a YouTube livestream on Friday that covered survey results.

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Sudanese ‘alternative’ government formed in Kenya preparing to grab diplomatic legitimacy

Sudanese ‘alternative’ government formed in Kenya preparing to grab diplomatic legitimacy

Politician Ibrahim al-Mirghani, another backer, said the new government would go to the United Nations and other forums to block the army’s participation.

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Surge in debt service costs sends Kenya into money market, is on verge of signing $1.5b UAE loan

Surge in debt service costs sends Kenya into money market, is on verge of signing $1.5b UAE loan

By the end of June, Mbadi added, the government is expecting more than $950 million in funding from other external sources, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, Italy and Germany.

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Access to electricity in Kenya rises as 12,700 homes in Kwale County are connected power

Access to electricity in Kenya rises as 12,700 homes in Kwale County are connected power

“Kenya ranked 94th globally in the recently released World Bank Human Capital Index with a 0.52 score. This means that a child born in Kenya today is 52 per cent of who she could be with complete education and full health,” the World Bank says in its 2018 rating of the East African nation.

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Goma’s ‘Promised Land’ becomes vague dream as rebels roam streets of seized eastern Congo city

Goma’s ‘Promised Land’ becomes vague dream as rebels roam streets of seized eastern Congo city

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma, which was once a critical trade and humanitarian hub, say they are struggling on various fronts even as the rebels try to consolidate their administration and restart normal life. On the streets of Goma, which...

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How ‘domestic’ fights between Ugandan rebels leader Joseph Kony and his wife led son to quit bush war, reach out to Museveni

How ‘domestic’ fights between Ugandan rebels leader Joseph Kony and his wife led son to quit bush war, reach out to Museveni

Ali was born in Gulu but brought to the LRA when he was six months old. From then on, he would hear about life in the town from his mother, and from other visitors who had come to meet the group in the bush during different peace talks with the Ugandan government.

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