From affordable housing to luxury dormitories: Ruto okays $1.2m hostel at Kivaywa Boys High School in Kakamega

From affordable housing to luxury dormitories: Ruto okays $1.2m hostel at Kivaywa Boys High School in Kakamega

School Principal Lichuma Lewis lauded the Affordable Housing Programme by the president for the initiative he said will immensely improve the school’s accommodation facilities.

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Students in northern Kenya at risk of crocodile, hippo attacks as world’s largest desert lake burst banks

Students in northern Kenya at risk of crocodile, hippo attacks as world’s largest desert lake burst banks

Since 2018 when the lake’s water level began rising, students population has fallen from 400 to 150 at El Molo Bay Primary School.

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Privatisation: Government declares redundant thousands of workers in state-owned sugar factories in western Kenya

Privatisation: Government declares redundant thousands of workers in state-owned sugar factories in western Kenya

In a communication to the managing directors of Chemelil, Muhoroni, Nzoia and South Nyanza Sugar companies, the Principal Secretary for Agriculture Paul Ronoh instructed the issuance of termination notices to employees under redundancy.

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Visionary British colonialism: When we talk about East African federation, just bare in mind no foreigner gives free service

Visionary British colonialism: When we talk about East African federation, just bare in mind no foreigner gives free service

The new East African universities immediately became affiliated to the University of London. From that time, all degrees obtained by students of Makerere University College, Royal University College, Nairobi and University College, Dar-es-Salaam were granted by the Federal University of East Africa 1963-1970. In 1970 the University of East Africa was dissolved.

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Japan joins US, China in renewed scramble for Africa as it calls for ‘economic zone’ that links it to Indian Ocean

Japan joins US, China in renewed scramble for Africa as it calls for ‘economic zone’ that links it to Indian Ocean

Guterres said “unjust and unfair international financial architecture” must enhance African representation and endorse a strong African voice in the decision-making process, adding that building AI capacity in developing countries in Africa would help ease digital divide in the region.

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Kenya’s trade minister holds talks with US counterpart in Washington to address volatile business outlook

Kenya’s trade minister holds talks with US counterpart in Washington to address volatile business outlook

Citi Bank, NASDAQ, Cigna Healthcare, Siemens Healthcare, Vantive, American Tower Corporation, Tidal Basin Advisors, BowerGroup Asia and the Burns Brothers were among the companies represented at the session, where discussions explored opportunities in healthcare, digital trade, renewable energy-powered data centres, and infrastructure.

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US President Trump expects to ascend to heaven if he brokers Russia, Ukraine peace

US President Trump expects to ascend to heaven if he brokers Russia, Ukraine peace

Positioning himself as a “mediator in chief” has been one of Trump’s major objectives so far in his second term. He boasted to Zelenskiy during their sit-down on Monday, August 18, that he was responsible for “six deals” in various world conflicts this year alone.

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US Navy’s ambitious drone fleet programme ploughs into stormy waters

US Navy’s ambitious drone fleet programme ploughs into stormy waters

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has made fielding swarms of drones a top military priority. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed last month included almost $5 billion for maritime autonomous systems

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Kenyan intelligence shuts down Quba Islamic Centre in Garissa fearing infiltration by Somali militants

Kenyan intelligence shuts down Quba Islamic Centre in Garissa fearing infiltration by Somali militants

Garissa branch SUPKEM chairperson, Sheikh Abdullahi Salat, said that it was shameful that religious people who were supposed to bring people together were now dividing them. Sheikh Salat reiterated that SUPKEM was fully supporting the government’s move to shut the place down and called for the arrest of all those fuelling the conflicts.

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Rapid Support Force rebels leave tales of horror in after attack on village in Sudan’s Kordofan region

Rapid Support Force rebels leave tales of horror in after attack on village in Sudan’s Kordofan region

In this photo released by the NGO Mercy Corps, Sudanese families displaced by RSF attacks in Kordofan take shelter in a football stadium in Kadugli, South Kordofan province, on May 27, 2025.

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