Unwanted in France, lost in Africa: Trouble with new French deportation law that hounds Africans
Interviewed, more than 40 people including five individuals said they were affected by the new law, along with rights advocates, lawyers and researchers, for a detailed look at the impact of France’s 2024 immigration reform.
Doomed to live in penury due to disability and stabbed with knife by sister, poor Maasai mom defies the odds to fend for her children
Nevertheless, everything did not move as smoothly as she had hoped. The worst happened when Pisoi lost her father who was the pillar of their family when she was a teenager. The big loss forced the family into struggling for basic needs like housing, food and clothing.
Kenya resumes alcohol levels testing on highways as IRAP reveals the country loses $3.5 billion every year through road carnage
The programme was intended to provide feedback on progress made on the Northern Corridor since the last IRAP survey in 2009 and provide critical and current insight into the safety of all road users, particularly vulnerable pedestrians and motorcyclists. The Safer Road Investment Plans will be developed to prioritise evidence-based safety improvements and inform road authority projects.
US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that Covid came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology
The DIA has not publicly recognised the analysis as its official position on the matter. But, unlike other federal assessments that provide few details to back up their findings that Covid-19 likely emerged from a lab, the DIA assessment offers the most detailed US agency scientific analysis made public to date supporting why such a conclusion was drawn.
Kenya’s national wrestling team gears for Africa beach wrestling championship in Morocco
Wrestling coach Oriri also called for increased funding to support the promotion of wrestling in schools, acknowledging that a lack of resources has hindered many talented athletes from competing at international events.
While Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwest Kenya is already bigger than many African cities, UN thinking of evolving it into a city
Now the Kenyan government and humanitarian agencies have come up with an ambitious plan for Kakuma to evolve into a city. Although it remains under the United Nations’ management, Kakuma has been re-designated a municipality, one that local government officials later will run.
Black comedian, Amber Ruffin, shut out of White House correspondents annual event after angering Trump’s team
An annual event where journalists often invite entertainers as guests, the dinner has featured comics such as Stephen Colbert, Colin Jost and Trevor Noah. Memorably, in 2011, it had as a guest a stone-faced Donald Trump, former star of The Apprentice, listening to jokes told by President Barack Obama at his expense.
NExT programme steering Kenya’s horticulture exports competitiveness in bruising world market
Horticulture is a major foreign exchange earner, often referred to as “green gold” alongside tourism, coffee and tea. It contributes significantly to Kenya’s GDP, with the agricultural sector as a whole accounting for a substantial portion.
‘Primitive’ crops resurface in Migori County as Kenya’s Lake Victoria basin fends off high lifestyle diseases incidence
It is unfortunate that most of these foods are not served in many eateries frequented by the young people in the county and in Kenya as a whole. The young generation today would not differentiate between millet and sorghum and would out rightly dismiss ugali made from the crops as sludge.
Governor in western Kenya lays out plans for Kakamega County bullfighting tournament, ‘premier’ league
Local enthusiasts and bull owners are preparing their animals for the event, with some employing traditional methods – like feeding the bulls on traditional brew and herbs- to ready their bulls for competition.
