UNICEF: Donor funding cuts leave 13 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa at risk of severe malnutrition
In South Sudan, malnutrition among children under five as well as pregnant and breastfeeding women, remains a critical concern. This year, over two million children under five are at risk of acute malnutrition (both moderate and severe acute malnutrition), a 26 per cent increase from 2024.
Kenya and Uganda to streamline land use along border in the north to curb resource-based conflicts
Governor Lomorukai described the process as crucial and emphasised that it will aid in resource mapping, enhance cross-border trade and establish systems to prevent conflicts linked to livestock and human movement across the border.
WHO recommends social and psychological support for school girls to address adolescent pregnancy
Reasons for early pregnancy vary, but are interrelated including gender inequities, poverty, lack of opportunity and inability to access sexual and reproductive health services, with also a strong correlation with child marriage; and in low- and middle-income countries.
Kenya’s trade minister warns unbridled utterances on conflict in Sudan will further hurt tea, fruit exports
Cabinet Secretary Lee Kinyanjui expressed concern over recent public utterances by political figures on regional conflicts, stressing the importance of maintaining Kenya’s non-partisan foreign policy in the region.
Poor Pope and People’s Pope: While John Paul I was a paragon of tenacity and courage, Pope Francis was citadel of theological learning
Pop John Paul I: We have no temporal goods to exchange, no economic interests to discuss. Our possibilities for intervention are specific and limited and of a special character. They do not interfere with the purely temporal, technical and political affairs, which are matters of your government.
White South Africans scramble for exile in US as non-white refugees are deported on Trump orders
Some of the South African applicants have taken part in a first round of interviews in Pretoria, three of them said, describing positive encounters with US officials who seemed well-disposed towards them and their accounts of persecution.
Blue economy: Stakeholder petition Kenyan parliament to rescinded ‘flawed’ draft law for not treating fisheries as a distinct economic sector
On April 7, he said, LVA formally wrote to the clerk of the national assembly, to petition parliament to suspend the bill and launch a comprehensive and inclusive legislative review. The bill, he said, was a replication of the outdated 2016 provisions that were developed without a guiding national aquaculture policy and failed to recognise aquaculture as a distinct economic sector.
Nairobi: Great Lakes Region meeting wants illicit minerals trafficking curbed to spur local economies
The conferences which have been organised in collaboration with GIZ (German Society for International Cooperation) will provide an arena for policymakers, technical experts and regional stakeholders to assess progress, share best practices and agree on next steps in implementing the Six Tools against the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources (RINR).
European teenage thieves arrested in Kenya with haul of queen ants in major shift in wildlife trafficking
The Kenya Wildlife Service, however, said the case signals a landmark shift in biopiracy trends from iconic large mammals to lesser-known species that are no less ecologically critical.
Cash-strapped Kenya rolls out pension scheme for self-employed people
Speaking at a past engagement with journalists in Kakamega, the CEO of KNEST Rose Musonye said the institution will manage all the savings of Kenyan workers who are self-employed.
