Health experts in Kenya and Tanzania blame tuberculosis persistence on rigid immigration red tapes, bureaucracy
Health officials from Kenya and Tanzania have raised an alarm over the daunting challenges in managing tuberculosis (TB) along their shared border. The medics say patients’ disappearances, family interventions and administrative red tapes are undermining treatment efforts and fuelling complications, including deaths. The concerns emerged during a cross-border meeting held...
Mexican drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada pleads guilty to drug trafficking, to be handed life sentence in January
Speaking softly through a Spanish interpreter, Zambada recounted a life of crime that he said began when he planted a marijuana plant in 1969 at the age of 19.
Kenya calls for co-option of civil society-military diplomacy in peacekeeping
Ambassador Josphat K. Maikara, the director-general for political and diplomatic affairs at the ministry of foreign and diaspora affairs, during the inaugural Joint Technical-Level Workshop on International Peacekeeping held at the International Peace Support Training Centre.
Panic as teargas canister hurled at women’s rally in Siaya County sends crowd scampering
The women legislators, among them the host Ombaka, went on with their programme. They called on Kenyans to be united under the broad-based government which, they said, had done a lot for the common man.
Kenyan minister de-gazettes 45 health facilities implicated in $23.2 million fraud
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale speaking on the health care matters at Afya House on Monday, on August 25, 2025. Credit: Wangari Ndirangu.
Japan’s Samurai loans Kenya’s $169 million to boost vehicle assembly industries, energy production
Speaking on the sidelines at TICAD on Thursday, Raphael Otieno, Kenya’s director-general of debt management in the ministry of finance, said Nairobi’s debt strategy is shifting focus from short-term refinancing risks to addressing high borrowing costs.
British Army in Kenya comes fire for promoting ‘transactional sex’ in Nanyuki as UK pays out £2.9m over wildfires
A report released by Britain’s Ministry of Defence earlier this month shows that, despite instituting a ban against transactional sex, British soldiers stationed in central Kenya’s Nanyuki area continue to fuel prostitution, which is illegal in Kenya.
WHO data show more women die giving birth in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world
The prospects of more health resources have dwindled in the region. US foreign aid data shows that Nigeria received almost $4 billion in aid from the now-dismantled US Agency for International Development between 2020 and 2025, with $423 million going to maternal health and family planning.
Hundreds of scholars, conservationists from all the world expected to grace 14th Mara Day celebrations in Tanzania
LVBC Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire said the scientific conference to be held on September 14 at the Mwalimu Nyerere University of Science and Technology (MNUAT) has already attracted more than 60 submissions from researchers in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Norway.
Kenya braces to host inaugural oceans conference in Africa set for Mombasa
Since the inception of the OOC summit in 2014 that premiered in the United States of America, the conference has generated over 2,000 commitments reduce marine pollution, expanding marine protected areas, combating illegal fishing and promoting sustainable blue finance.
