How deadly gangsters traded crime for food production in Nairobi slum: ‘When police bullet took my brother, I knew I had to change’

How deadly gangsters traded crime for food production in Nairobi slum: ‘When police bullet took my brother, I knew I had to change’

Some two million people or 40 per cent of Nairobi’s population of five million people, live in informal settlements, according to CFK Africa, a non-governmental organisation that runs health and poverty reduction programs in such neighbourhoods and is familiar with Vision Bearerz’ work.

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EAC principal secretaries meeting in Kisumu draws up strategy for Lake Victoria conservation

EAC principal secretaries meeting in Kisumu draws up strategy for Lake Victoria conservation

Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire said pollution, unsustainable agriculture, land degradation, invasive weeds and illegal fishing have drastically affected the lake’s health and the well-being of those who depend on it.

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Chickens coming home to roost: Scientists and doctors behind Covid origins con face corruption invstigation, Fauci features as perpetrator

Chickens coming home to roost: Scientists and doctors behind Covid origins con face corruption invstigation, Fauci features as perpetrator

After the paper’s publication on March 17, 2020, Collins promoted the paper in the March 2020 edition of the NIH Director’s Blog. And on May 21, 2020, the NIH finalised a $1.88 million grant to Andersen and the Scripps Research Institute relating to pandemic preparedness in West Africa.

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Kenya’s Olympic 800m athletics champion Wanyonyi misses world record by whisker in Lausanne, Switzerland

Kenya’s Olympic 800m athletics champion Wanyonyi misses world record by whisker in Lausanne, Switzerland

The young Kenyan ferociously chased the green lights in the inner lane that keep pace with the world record in ideal 25 C conditions, just missing Rudisha’s record but matching Wilson Kipketer’s 1997 time as second fastest ever run.

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500,000 conservationists in Africa petition Tanzania to ban sport hunting of elephants

500,000 conservationists in Africa petition Tanzania to ban sport hunting of elephants

In 1995, both the East African neighbours had agreed that Tanzania would stop issuing hunting permits on its side of the reserve after hunters killed Kenyan elephants on the Tanzanian side.

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Paris Olympics: Kenya’s Wanyonyi leads the way into open 800 metres final

Paris Olympics: Kenya’s Wanyonyi leads the way into open 800 metres final

Wanyonyi, silver medallist at last year’s world championship, was pushed at the end by American Bryce Hoppel but ensured he crossed the line first in 1:43.32 minutes.

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Kenya police lob teargas at pockets of protesters in Nairobi calling for president’s resignation

Kenya police lob teargas at pockets of protesters in Nairobi calling for president’s resignation

At least three journalists were wounded when police fired teargas canisters close to them, the International Press Association of East Africa, which represents hundreds of journalists in the region, said on X.

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Treasury: New economic repair plan submitted by Kenya to IMF set for review in August

Treasury: New economic repair plan submitted by Kenya to IMF set for review in August

The IMF did not immediately comment. The East African nation has a $3.6 billion IMF programme and the Fund had reached a staff level agreement on the seventh review of Kenya’s programme in early June.

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Kenya’s education sector sinks into abyss as president cuts budgets critical departments, including examinations council

Kenya’s education sector sinks into abyss as president cuts budgets critical departments, including examinations council

Other than syllabus evaluation, KNEC uses the Ksh5 billion to hire police for security, logistics, monitoring, invigilation, marking and moderation, which the revised the budget dispended with. However, the austerity measures announced by President Ruto cut KNEC’s examination administration and invigilation by 100 per cent, touching off an uproar, which Milemba describes as a “serious deprivation of a basic human right by treasury.”

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