Kenya’s saving and cooperatives movement hits $14 billion as it registers rapid growth
Co-operative Alliance of Kenya Chair Macloud Malonza said the Sacco movement has registered tremendous growth and needed to advance to the next level. Therefore the movement is advocating for a new law that will allow cooperatives to get into the payment system and start offering other financial services like issuing bankers cheques.
Lock up monkeys and snakes in Kakamega Forest or compensate us for losses of crops and life, farmers tell state
The law lists elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, hyena, crocodiles, hippopotamus and wild dogs as those eligible for compensation under the Act, but excludes monkeys and snakes local people say are equally dangerous.
Nigeria food security: How water over-extraction, deforestation have created Africa’s hungriest nation
More than 80 per cent of Nigeria’s farmers are smallholder farmers, who account for 90 per cent of the country’s annual agricultural production. Some work their fields with little more than a piece of roughly carved wood and their bare hands.
Fears that Pfizer lied about its vaccine’s efficacy as federal judge sends Kansas lawsuit against company back to state court
Pfizer filed an opposing motion in October 2024, in which it presented three arguments for why the case belonged in federal court. The final argument was that Kansas’ claims were “completely pre-empted by the PREP Act and are thus removable to federal court.”
South African President Ramaphosa meets Trump next week, white South African refugees on agenda
Trump has criticised South Africa’s Black-led government on multiple fronts and issued an executive order February 7 cutting all US funding to the country as punishment for what he said were its anti-white policies at home and anti-American foreign policy.
Regional government in central Kenya pushes up revenue by $ 7.7m after digitising public services
The revenue management module also plays a crucial role by automating and tracking all revenue streams, thereby bolstering transparency and accountability which has seen the county increase its own source revenue collection to Ksh4.6 billion, up from Ksh3.5 billion, without increasing fees and levies, as reported by the Controller of Budget in the 2023/2024 financial year.
Gold rush: How exposure to mercury, which causes irreversible brain damage and loss of vision, is a disaster in Senegal
A 2018 Duke University-led study found mercury levels in soils, sediments and water near artisanal gold mining villages in southeastern Senegal that exceeded safety thresholds set by the World Health Organization and US Environmental Protection Agency by 10 to 100 times.
Kenya kicks off wildlife conservation law review to address longstanding human-wildlife conflicts
Decrying what they termed as some “stiff” sections in the current law, the participants said such sections like shoot to kill for those found in gazetted wildlife areas should be dealt away with as they only serve to create more animosity between wildlife and border communities.
While gender-based violence among Kenya’s Samburu tribe is a cultural norm local women want stiffer legal penalties to end it
Sitati urged the TWG to petition the president to move through a cabinet paper and amendment to section 175, section 23, 24, 25 and 26 of the victim procedure act in order to provide a clear procedure for courts to apply whenever they want to make orders of compensation to victims of GBV.
Horror of domestic workers persists in Saudi Arabia as Kenya called to protect rights of its women in Middle East
Amnesty International wants Kenya and Saudi Arabia to protect the lives of Kenyan women who work in the Gulf nation. The organisation emphasised the need for Kenya’s labour migration policy to include a comprehensive protection framework to safeguard migrant workers abroad.
