UK, EU make Ukraine focal point in peace talks with Russia as Moscow praise Trump for ‘common sense’ approach
Earlier, Zelenskiy told reporters that Ukraine would not cede any territory to Russia as part of a peace agreement and said he was still willing to sign a minerals deal with the United States. Zelenskiy said he believed he could salvage his relationship with Trump after Friday’s shouting match, but that talks would have to take place behind closed doors.
Kakamega County in western Kenya state partnership with IFAD in $7.3m livestock commercialisation project
Between independence in 1963 and the onset of World Bank-prescribed structural adjustment programmes in the early 1980s, western Kenya counties of Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Trans-Nzoia were leading producers of milk.
Kenya launches integrity plan as sleaze festers in key institutions: police, judiciary and presidency
The EACC chairperson Dr David Oginde observed that the KIP launch aligns with Vision 2030, and Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) of the government, and all the other aspirations “that we have as a nation towards having a progressive nation that can attain economic independence.
Market beckons Kenyan honey producers as US beekeepers report 62 per cent losses as winter wreaks havoc
It adds that respondents have lost 1.1 million colonies from late summer through winter, according to the data. Those losses account for 41 per cent of total colonies in the United States, Downey said during a YouTube livestream on Friday that covered survey results.
GMO crops are not resistant to pests after all, farmers discover as maize glut in US Corn Belt results in massive losses
rootworm resistance to Bt corn is documented in at least six states in the US Corn Belt, and 29 cases of resistance to Bt crops have been documented in 11 pest species in seven countries, he said. The scientists were surprised to find much higher levels of corn rootworm in the western Corn Belt compared to the east.
Sudanese ‘alternative’ government formed in Kenya preparing to grab diplomatic legitimacy
Politician Ibrahim al-Mirghani, another backer, said the new government would go to the United Nations and other forums to block the army’s participation.
Surge in debt service costs sends Kenya into money market, is on verge of signing $1.5b UAE loan
By the end of June, Mbadi added, the government is expecting more than $950 million in funding from other external sources, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, Italy and Germany.
War vs peace: Trump, Ukraine President Zelenskiy tear into each in full glare of world media
Trump has sided with Putin since taking over as president, shocking his traditional allies in Europe and beyond and leaving Ukraine increasingly vulnerable. Friday’s outburst was the most public display of that shift to date.
Access to electricity in Kenya rises as 12,700 homes in Kwale County are connected power
“Kenya ranked 94th globally in the recently released World Bank Human Capital Index with a 0.52 score. This means that a child born in Kenya today is 52 per cent of who she could be with complete education and full health,” the World Bank says in its 2018 rating of the East African nation.
Senegal signs peace deal with factions separatist rebels but there are doubts it’ll be implemented
Senegal’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comments about the claims. The rebels’ calls for the region’s independence will be difficult to neglect despite the new deal, said Mohamed Traoré, a doctoral researcher at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.
