Fish farming eases pressure on land in densely populated Vihiga as household incomes rise
Training sessions reached all 22 wards, covering topics from feeding fingerlings to monitoring pond pH and general pond care. Farmers eagerly absorbed knowledge, often staying after sessions to ask questions or request follow-up demonstrations. Nets were distributed to protect fish from predators, a measure many credited for reducing losses significantly.
Ditching gun for hoe: How earnings from farming silence banditry in northwestern Kenya
According to International Alert Programmes Manager Dorina Prech many families who had fled the area due to frequent conflicts are now returning following government intervention and confidence-building initiatives led by the organisation.
New Jeffrey Epstein document dumps reveal how the infamous sex offender wined and dined Republicans and Democrats
Most recently, Democrats on the committee published over a dozen photos from a set of 95,000 produced by the estate. The photos showed Epstein with wealthy and powerful men, including presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as sex toys and a pile of condoms with illustrations of Trump on the packaging.
New study finds social media fuels smoking and vaping among children, girls top list of young puffers
Evidence has shown that tobacco companies aggressively use social media, which itself has addictive elements. For instance, researchers reported last year that tobacco giant Philip Morris International systematically promotes its leading heated tobacco product worldwide through social media.
Political storm brews in Britain over Covid-related excess deaths after activists accused UK Health Agency of hiding data
The advocacy group UsForThem requested the data in 2023, through the Freedom of Information Act 2000, asking UKHSA to disclose, for every adult who died between 2021 and 2023, their age at first dose, the dates of each vaccine dose and the date of death.
Kenyan police mission to tackle gangs was undermined by lack of international support – Haitians tell of exhaustion and hopelessness
The first foreign boots since the UN approved a Gang Suppression Force (GSF) to tackle Haiti’s worsening security crisis have hit the ground but there’s little confidence among Haitians that it will be anything but yet another pointless foreign intervention. A batch of 230 Kenyan police officers landed in the...
Haitians speak of exhaustion and hopelessness as new UN force gets set to tackle gangs
Slated to eventually include up to 5,500 police and military officers, the GSF aims to regain control of the country by fighting gangs through a broader and more combative mandate, while negotiations are continuing on the political front to pave the way for elections.
US Congress explores possibilities of compelling spy agencies to declassify evidence on origins of Covid
Tucked deep inside the sprawling National Defence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2026 is language that requires the director of National Intelligence to conduct a declassification review with the heads of federal intelligence agencies of information about those who funded coronavirus research and what’s known about risky “gain-of-function” work performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Away from Al Shabaab attacks and contraband sugar and narcotics, Garissa is emerging as Kenya’s ‘capital’ of smuggled fuel from Somalia
Garissa has also become a corridor for hard drugs trafficking such as bhang, ingredients used in shisha, cocaine and heroin are also peddled in large quantities into Kenya from Somalia through the same corridors, which link the Kenyan town to the Somali capital Mogadishu, Kismayo Port and other towns along the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia.
Children’s hair may hold clues to depression and behavioural risks years before symptoms appear
One in every 4 children is currently living with a chronic physical illness. These include various respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, such as asthma, congenital heart disease, rheumatic heart disease and stroke.
