Radiologist at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Referral Hospital lands global grant for sickle cell study
Dr Connie Ongeti secured the award from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), emerging among a small pool of successful applicants worldwide in a highly competitive call that attracted thousands of submissions.
How Kenya’s girls’ school of ‘second chances’ allows teenaged mothers to live in boarding school with their babies
The boarding school was founded in 2015 and has put hundreds of girls and young women through secondary education while supporting their children. Some have gone on to successful professional careers, including in government and medicine.
Fertility is in the toilet, says scientist as she calls chemical exposure a ‘huge societal problem’
Researchers tracked what they used every day – from personal care products to household cleaners – then coached them on safer alternatives.
Minister says Kenya is focusing on quality assurance in tea industry for a bigger slice of the world market
Another key intervention he said they were implementing was modernisation of factories for which the state has provided Ksh3.7 billion loan facility at a concessionary rate of five per cent interest to help facilities upgrade machinery and also diversify into other high value products such as orthodox tea production.
International Congress of Mathematicians dispute signals shifting global confidence in US academic freedom
In a statement issued on March 30, the Berlin-based IMU acknowledged widespread anxieties regarding US entry and the ability of scholars to feel “safe and welcome” in Philadelphia.
Horrors of slavery: His job was to impregnate slave women, then impregnated his owner’s wife and daughter
When Sheriff Thomas McKinley drew his pistol, Margaret Harlow, the plantation owner’s wife, stepped forward, her belly opened, her child lying dead at her feet, and she raised her bloodied hands in front of Tobias.
Before slave trade was abolished in USA, slaves on plantation farms in Texas would receive 150 lashes for offence of dancing without a permit
Hall kept a white overseer and a Black driver beneath him. The driver was an enslaved man given authority to push other enslaved people harder, a position that sat at one of the cruellest intersections slavery could produce.
US President Trump imposes 100 per cent ad valorem tariff on certain pharmaceutical imports
The tariffs imposed will be effective on or after 12:01am eastern daylight time on July 31, 2026.
30 years after she went missing, teen is located by Arizona cold case unit as grown woman with family
When she vanished in May 1994, the paper says, officials in Star Valley, Arizona, believed she may have been abducted. So, they classified her disappearance as happening under ‘endangered and suspicious circumstances’.
UN warns civilian casualties and severe constraints on aid operations worsening crisis in Lebanon, Gaza and West Bank
UN peacekeepers along the Blue Line, known as UNIFIL, describe the situation as bleak and concerning. UNIFIL said the Israel Defence Forces have expanded their incursion westward, with tanks and clashes reported in Sector West, roughly 12 km north of the Blue Line.
