MP in western Kenya to offer counselling to law enforcers as depression, suicide and homicide incidence in police service hits crisis levels
Between 2021 and 2024, the National Police Service Psychological Counselling Police unit statistics show, over 64,464 cases of counselling and psychological support have been handled. The statistics are broken down as 33,412 cases in 2021-22, and 31,052 in 2023-24, hence the need for counselling services beyond what the government offers.
Kenyan children at high risk of online sexual exploitation, says Dutch civil society as it launches campaign against the menace
Recent research conducted with children and parents and caregivers by Terre des Hommes Netherlands revealed that socio-economic challenges, low digital literacy, and authoritative parenting impairs caregivers’ ability to protect their children from risks of online sexual exploitation.
Becoming a Maasai warrior: How modernity is reshaping cultural resilience training for world-famous Kenyan, Tanzanian nomadic tribe
Traditionally, transitioning from child to warrior as a Maasai involved taking part in a one-year warrior camp. Maasai youths would be secluded and learn survival skills, bushcraft – and, if the opportunity arises, how to kill a lion. All that has changed. Although “Enkipaata” – the official rite of passage that includes warrior training – s has been declared a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, it has been modernised.
Nairobi-based ILRI joins world programme to reduce methane emissions from livestock
Director of the Future of Food at the Bezos Earth Fund, Dr Andy Jarvis, said that reducing methane from cattle is one of the most elegant solutions we have to slow climate change.
Resetting humanitarian journalism: There’s need to shift from extraction mindset to revering humanity
Further, there is a real cost to being offered up as part of the news buffet prepared by an industry that rewards speed and spectacle. Spectacle flattens complexity. It replaces solidarity with voyeurism. And while journalists may move on to the next assignment, the people whose stories were mined are left with the consequences of being exposed, misunderstood or reduced to symbols.
Like fish that rots from the head, entire body politic of Uganda is corrupt from the presidency to, now, environment
Political corruption, cultural corruption, spiritual corruption, Cyber corruption, moral corruption, social corruption, health corruption, academic Corruption, intellectual corruption, Mental corruption, scientific corruption, policy corruption, legislative corruption, executive corruption and judicial corruption belongs to the socio-cultural dimension of the environment.
New knowledge cultures in Africa: Centrality of criticality in academic, intellectual, educational, ideological, AI and public discourses.
God is the source of all knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insight. He desires that leaders (religious and non-religious) and rulers lead and govern his people with love, justice, mercy, wisdom, understanding and insight towards change for the better.
Kenya invests $10 million in aquaculture centre in Kisumu to rejig region’s floundering blue economy
Once completed, the aquaculture centre, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki said, is expected to significantly support thousands of small-scale fish farmers, complementing other government-driven blue economy initiatives aimed at enhancing food security and boosting income for fishing communities around the lake.
Kenya and Uganda strike deal to share Angololo water to generate power, irrigate 4,000 hectares of land
The project is expected to transform lives and communities through food security and livelihoods, access to clean water and sanitation, energy for development, environmental conservation, job creation and regional integration. The project was identified in 2010 and is aligned with Kenya’s Vision 2030 and Uganda’s Vision 2040.
‘Refugees are Africans like us’, Kenyans say but fear terrorism as state rolls out non-nationals integration plan
The Shirika Plan has been lauded as a major step forward in securing durable solutions for Kenya’s 800,000 refugees, the majority of whom are from neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan.
