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.
Dear Ugandans, Museveni and his disciples maybe guilty of ‘environmental stupidity’ but you gave him an open cheque for the travesty
Often the kind of education a society propagates will determine whether or not a people have the knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insights necessary to mange and conserve the environment wisely, meaningfully and effectively.
Uprooted by cattle rustlers and bad weather from homes, banditry victims in Baringo blast President Ruto for negligence
Owing to insecurity and the torrential rains that are pounding the region currently, many people have been displaced and are in urgent need of food and shelter, besides the high risk of contracting water-borne diseases besides malaria.
It’s coming home: Renowned for talent and love for sports, Kakamega rewarded with ticket to host East Africa Community school games
High school students from the East African Community member-states Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and host Kenya will flock to the county that is in history books as the first to build a football stadium in East, Central and Southern Africa – Bukhungu Stadium or Football Cathedral t locals.
Think about us too: Over 500,00 people in Daadab Refugee Camp in Kenya petition US President Trump to rethink aid freeze
Siyad Tawane, another refugee at the same camp, regretted that several health facilities are on the verge of closure as a result of the USAID funding freeze.
Stanbic PMI: Rise in business activity hoists Kenya’s private sector growth to 27-month high in April
Strengthening customer demand led to the fastest rise in new orders since February 2022, prompting businesses to expand output and increase purchasing activities.
Kenyan minister tells African conference ‘food independence and sovereignty’ is possible
The meeting preceded the 2021 UN Secretary-General-convened Food Systems Summit, which aimed at drawing attention to the urgent need to accelerate progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a food systems approach, and a follow-up of UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) held in 2023.
Dangerous patrimony: Why Uganda’s insecure president made daughter Natasha ‘presidential assistant in charge of household at State House’
This is what is called political patrimony. It is the fulcrum of patronage. Other relatives of the president in his government include: Bright Rwamirama – Minister for Animal Husbandry (his cousin); Shedrack Nzeire – senior presidential advisor on defence (his step-brother); Miriam Karugaba – administrator at State House (his sister-in-law); Sabiiti Muzeyi – former deputy inspector general of police (his cousin), James Kateera – Military Commander (Cousin of his wife); Faith Mirembe – private secretary in education and social services (his cousin); Sam Kutesa – former Minister for Foreign Affairs (father-in-law of Museveni’s son, Muhoozi); Allan Matsiko – Special Forces Command’s Intelligence Director (husband of Sam Kutesa daughter, the father-in-law of Muhoozi); Jim Muhwezi – Minister For National Security (cousin of Museveni’s wife, Janet)…
