Kenya revenue agency registers 96 per cent collection performance, crosses Ksh2 trillion in second quarter of finance year
To further improve tax compliance and convenience for landlords, the Electronic Rental Income Tax System (eRITS) was recently rolled out. This digital platform enables landlords and property owners to seamlessly compute, file and pay Monthly Rental Income (MRI) tax.
Beauty and the Beast: Kenya battles poisonous cosmetics as women constitute burgeoning market
According to the KEBS website, some of the skin lightening products include Jaribu Skin Lightening Lotion, Amira Skin Lightening Lotion, A3 Cleartouch Complexion Lotion, Fair White Body Clearing Milk and Precieux Treatment Beauty Lotion, Movate, Jaribu, Rico, Miki, Mekako, Tura, Fair lady, and Jambo.
Some 120 vultures die after eating carcass of elephant poisoned by poachers in South Africa’s flagship national park
The Kruger National Park covers approximately 20,000 square kilometres (7,722 square miles) and is nearly twice the size of small countries like Jamaica and Qatar.
Kakamega governor swears-in public service board but questions linger about Kenya’s once cleanest town
Residents expressed relief following the appointment and swearing-in of the Kakamega County Public Service Board and hope it will speedily restore the image of the town once associated with gold-mining, indigenous culture and large-scale sugarcane farming.
Environment in Uganda is the theatre where leaders trade indigenous rights for cheap Chinese and Indian toys
The 1995 Constitution, designed by the very group of people in power today strategically places all the natural resources of Uganda in the singular hands of the President Tibuhaburwa Museveni, who has several times stated that what matters today are interests, not identities (of the indigenous groups of Ugandans. The interests are political, military, economic, financial, as well as the use of these to dominate and conquer the indigenes well in the future.
Trusting Museveni with environment is suicidal, Ugandans must reclaim institution of president and civic power over it
In pursuit of its environmentally unconscious decisions and actions in the total environment of Uganda, power has frequently ignored the constitutional boundaries between the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary, with dire environmental consequences in all the dimensions of the environment: ecological-biological, socioeconomic, sociocultural and temporal.
Study finds adults exposed to chemicals used in food packaging, cosmetics and printed receipts suffer memory loss and cognitive decline
Using data from nearly 900 US adults with an average age of 69, researchers found that combined exposure to phenols, parabens and especially phthalates (PAEs) was linked to lower scores on standard tests of brain function, particularly among men.
Kenya’s finance minister casts starry outlook as he launches Economic Survey 2025
The economic survey 2025 launched on Wednesday by Mr Mbadi shows that the general growth decline was occasioned by multiple factors, despite enhanced government support to the sector in addition to increased crop yields and livestock production in the review period.
Drone attack on Sudan’s military-allied regime by paramilitary highlights might of factions
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC taken Tuesday show several fuel tanks ablaze about six kilometres (3.7 miles) southeast of downtown Port Sudan, on a farm identified as belonging to the state-owned Sudan National Petroleum Corp. Thick black smoke is seen rising into the sky.
‘A scientist walked outside to have lunch with a girlfriend’ and leaked Covid from lab,’ Trump jokes as he pauses gain-of-function research funding
Critics argue that it has a “dual-use” potential, as the pathogens can be used for bioweapons research and development. The question of Covid-19 origins has largely become a partisan debate that sees it as either a natural spill-over or a lab leak – although other researchers argue it could have been an intentional leak, or that there was no pandemic virus.
