State: Kenya Electricity Generating Company to own, run 10gw nuclear power and energy plant
Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi presided over the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between KenGen and the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) in Nairobi, setting the stage for one of the country’s most ambitious energy projects.
ODM succession: Scramble for heart and soul of Kenya’s largest political party is evolving into Luo and Suba ethnic dogfight
South Nyanza is settled by the Suba – who share ancestry with the Bantu in the lacustrine region like the Luhyia, Kisii, Baganda and Basoga – while North Nyanza is settled by Luo, with Nilotic ancestry.
National Counter Terrorism Centre warns Kenyans about omnipresent dangers of religious extremism, radicalisation
Dhamira Moja CBO Executive Director Sarah Martha said that as Civil Society Organisations, the agency will move to the grassroots to educate people to be part of a mechanism in dealing with extremism.
Scandal of ‘lab-grown meat’ rocks US food company after admission it uses ‘bioengineered food ingredients’
Cultivated meat uses techniques developed in the biopharma industry. Producers take cells from live animals or from a cell bank – which creates “immortalized” cells from cultured stem cells – and grow them in large steel tanks called cultivators or bioreactors.
Facebook’s secret hit: Crowded out of public spaces, Gen Zs are in turn knocking Boomers out of Facebook Dating site
According to a Pew survey from last year, 32 per cent of teen respondents said they use Facebook compared to 71 per cent in 2015, although Facebook Dating notes that daily conversations among its 18-to-29 demographic increased by 24 per cent in 2024.
Kenya drafts law to address marine refuelling, safer, cleaner and transparent industry operations
EPRA Director-General Daniel Kiptoo Bargoria said that the draft regulations provide a structured framework to govern the refuelling of small and medium marine vessels and the transfer of bunker fuels to ships at sea and within port facilities.
After decades of wild denials, US Centres for Disease Control now admits vaccines actually cause autism
The CDC webpage has previously stated there is no link between vaccines and autism. It now says, “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
A walk in the night-2: How US ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Kenya, forced Kibaki to share power with Raila
Raila Odinga’s immense popularity and his wide regional alliances from across all the regions except central were driving the campaign for electoral justice and winning growing support and international diplomatic backing. But I finally realised that my friends were right, my media interviews, diplomatic briefings and ODM statements had an impact and created the high-level threats and real danger.
Unfinished decolonisation: African nations push for recognition of colonial crimes and reparations
In his opening speech, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said Algeria’s experience under French rule underscored the need to seek compensation and reclaim stolen property.
Private children’s homes owners in Kenya appeal to state abandon plans to phase them out
According to the CEO of Baba Nyumbani Children’s Home Nicole Scott, the government has not put in place adequate structures and infrastructure to ensure that children currently living in orphanages continues to get support when private children homes are phased out.
