Kenya earns $116 million in foreign exchange as industry players disparage police harassment
Francis Mugo revealed that the industry earned the country over Ksh15 billion ($116 million) in foreign exchange in 2024 alone, Ksh8 billion ($62 million) in 2023 and Ksh2 billion ($15.5 million) in 2022, and therefore needed support.
Pfizer, Moderna ordered to add stronger warnings about possible heart damage from Covid vaccines
The FDA issued the letters the same day the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report showing that public health officials under the Biden administration failed to warn the public of the myocarditis risk associated with Covid-19 vaccines and actively downplayed that risk.
Somali, Sudanese refugees in Kenya face ‘lowest ever’ emergency food rations as US funding cuts bite
At the weekend, Secretary-General António Guterres recommended that the Security Council ensure financing for the African Union’s Support and Stabilisation Mission there (UNSOM), as the country continues to battle insecurity and attacks from Al-Shabaab militants.
Farmers in central Kenya propose state-funded wildlife feeding plan to curb losses from human-wildlife conflict
To further control the increasing cases of farm invasions by birds and monkeys, the farmers have also challenged the Ministry of Wildlife and Tourism to consider classifying monkey meat as bush-meat. They argued that since the government doesn’t compensate farmers for damages caused when monkeys destroy their crops, farmers should be allowed to trap and eat monkeys after seeking approval from county veterinary doctors.
Court finds two Somalis with links to al Shabaab terrorists guilty of abetting 2019 Nairobi hotel attack
Authorities arrested Hussein Mohammed Abdile and Mohamed Abdi Ali later that year for providing logistical support to the attackers. A third suspect, Mire Abdullahi, was earlier convicted following a plea bargain. Abdile and Ali pleaded not guilty.
Detention and release of Kenyan rights activist spotlights Tanzania’s vicious crackdown on President Suluhu Hassan’s rivals
Khalid said Mwangi had been severely tortured by Tanzanian security agents and could barely walk: “His body is broken but his spirit remains strong.”
Analysis: Trump’s claims of white genocide in South Africa is a pretext to pressure Pretoria to withdraw ICJ case against Israel
They have shared video clips, captioned “terrible things are happening” of white South Africans dancing and carousing with their Black compatriots, and made skits in which white South Africans speak, direct-to-camera, ironically about their terrible lives, as they record themselves in beautiful homes and are served drinks by Black staff.
In pillorying Trump’s binder to raw racism South Africa discarded, Afrikaners in US are a symbol of what South Africa no longer wants to be
A group of white descendants of Dutch settlers to South Africa landed at Washington Dulles International Airport last week, part of a new Trump administration programme aimed at “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” The group, Trump officials claimed, were fleeing “white genocide.” On social...
Anti-corruption agency reveals Kenya’s civil service from presidency to junior cadre is fraught with fake degrees
Kenya is grappling with fake academic certificate crisis. Allegations of fake certificate in public service cascade from president’s office to the junior cadre in the civil service. Since the promulgation of the current constitution in 2010, Kenya has been experiencing something akin to a rat race for degrees as virtually...
US accused of quietly dumping migrants in South Sudan that is teetering on the brink of civil war
Some people in the capital, Juba, are worried their country would become a kind of dumping ground. “Those people who are deported, some of them are criminals, they have been involved in crimes. So once they are brought to South Sudan, that means that criminal activities will also increase,” said Martin Mawut Ochalla, 28.
