Kenyan flower farmers explore Middle East markets as invasive bugs and toxic pesticides hurt exports to Europe

Kenyan flower farmers explore Middle East markets as invasive bugs and toxic pesticides hurt exports to Europe

Nationally, the flower industry employs half a million people, according to a Central Bank of Kenya 2021 report, and is estimated by the National Bureau of Statistics to be worth over $800 million. Roses make up about 66 per cents of cut flower exports, at an estimated value of about $300 million.

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 Habitat for Humanity Kenya study paints gloomy picture of housing in Nairobi’s inner cities

 Habitat for Humanity Kenya study paints gloomy picture of housing in Nairobi’s inner cities

Nairobi County Director of Housing Michael Kinoti underscored the critical need for housing in informal settlements, including Mukuru, Kibera and Mathare, among others, saying access to shelter is a constitutional and basic right.

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Neo-slavery: Steeped in corruption, unable to create new jobs for African countries are sending skilled labour abroad to boost their economies

Neo-slavery: Steeped in corruption, unable to create new jobs for African countries are sending skilled labour abroad to boost their economies

Sending workers abroad has been at the core of development strategies of Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh for decades. But the approach has not been widely embraced in sub-Saharan Africa, where countries like Kenya have been accused by frustrated citizens of shirking their responsibility to create jobs at home.

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Previously ‘orphaned’ by scientists as ‘primitive’ sorghum is rebounding in western Kenya as a cash crop

Previously ‘orphaned’ by scientists as ‘primitive’ sorghum is rebounding in western Kenya as a cash crop

Prof Hai Chun Jing from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is leading the Chinese partnership in technology development and transfer, put emphasis on the importance of selecting and breeding high-yielding, drought-resistant varieties that can thrive in the diverse agro-ecological zones of Africa.

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As more countries as sucked into conflict in eastern Congo, fears of a regional war rise

As more countries as sucked into conflict in eastern Congo, fears of a regional war rise

Troops from Burundi, with its own tense relations with Rwanda, were sent to fight alongside Congolese forces. Troops from Tanzania, which hosted the weekend summit, were deployed in Congo under the banner of a regional bloc. And Uganda, on poor terms with Rwanda, had already deployed hundreds of troops to fight a different rebel group in eastern Congo.

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Farmers in Kenya’s Nakuru County switch to bee farming as crop production is hit by erratic weather

Farmers in Kenya’s Nakuru County switch to bee farming as crop production is hit by erratic weather

Kurgat said the county government had been encouraging bee farmers to join cooperatives in order to keep at bay unscrupulous brokers and unlock the unexploited potential that could be realized from sale of their products that include; honey, wax, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom.

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Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns

Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns

Ji said this is concerning given that BBC has expanded its influence through projects like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” that worked with Big Tech forms to identify “misinformation” and “disinformation” on their platforms.

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Doctor prescribes rigid dietary regimen for rural folk in Kenya to keep pancreatic cancer at bay

Doctor prescribes rigid dietary regimen for rural folk in Kenya to keep pancreatic cancer at bay

Dr Philip Blasto says some of the high risk factors include smoking, obesity, having a family history of diabetes adding that some people inherit the gene from their parents that raise their risk of pancreatic cancer.

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Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery

Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery

At dawn, 65-year-old Nelly Mutandwa swapped her pyjamas for leggings, a T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a bottle of water before heading to an unconventional workout spot: a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Surrounded by rows of graves, she joined other members of the Commandos Fitness Club in an hour-long...

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Uprooted by M23 rebels from their homes, rejected church and abandoned by UN, eastern Congo’s IDPs live in constant fear

Uprooted by M23 rebels from their homes, rejected church and abandoned by UN, eastern Congo’s IDPs live in constant fear

Water and electricity were slowly restored and schools and shops began reopening. Aid workers and volunteers scrambled to collect dead bodies off the streets under the watchful eye of M23 patrols. Since late January, the latest spasm of violence has left some 3,000 people dead and nearly as many injured.

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