Shirika plan: Kenya’s refugee integration programme in limbo as aid agencies cut back funding
Kakuma is semi-desert – harsh, blinding, unforgiving. Life for a refugee business person here is stitched together from fragments: a little aid relief, a modest turnover and, if you’re lucky, an occasional offer of credit from an NGO lending service.
How Agikuyu of central Kenya are reliving the past in Thingira Cultural Village
Foods such as mukimo (mix of maize, beans, potatoes and traditional vegetables mashed together), njahi (black beans), ngwaci (sweet potatoes) and marigu (green bananas) are cooked in clay pots just as it was done many decades ago.
Luhyia spice ‘munyu mfume’ cited as reason people in western Kenya are strong in bed in old age, show low cancer and hypertension incidence
Research on people who consume munyu-mfume in food instead of the ubiquitous sodium-based table salt found nearly in every household in Kenya are less vulnerable to lifestyle diseases. While sodium has been found to constrict blood vessels, potassium has a dilation effect – widening arteries and veins to hasten circulation. In addition, the research found, potassium breaks and mops up negative cholesterol, discharging it from the bloodstream and giving the body a youthful look.
Sign contracts that you understand and are based on Kenyan labour law, athletes counselled
Lawyer Samwel Momanyi said there were many clauses that the athletes may not understand without the help of a lawyer especially after it emerged that, since most of the managers were from foreign countries, the athletes signed contracts written in foreign languages and under foreign labour laws.
Four in five child deaths in Africa are avoidable and caused by infections during hospital visits, study finds
Dr Isaac Kihurani, a paediatric specialist at Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, said that dealing with preventable child deaths takes an emotional toll on healthcare workers.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them
In order to roll back the labour victories of the postwar era (which had become harder to justify in the wake of falling profits), American elites both empowered finance capital (leading to a series of bubbles) and embraced deindustrialization, with many industries shifting to the Global South (notably China).
Kenya’s plan for 60,000-megawatt nuclear plant in western Kenya on course as it eyes EAC electricity market
Siaya, which is in Lake Victoria Basin, has been identified for the project because of its proximity to the lake. The site of the plant is also strategic as Kenya will export the surplus power to Uganda and other East Africa Community (EAC) countries to the west.
Listen, President Museveni: Governance without ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset is crime against Uganda
Since 2009 I have committed time and energy to develop the collective public ecological, ecosystem and sustainability mindset of Uganda, East Africa, the Nile Basin, the Great Lakes Region, Africa and the world.
After signing bumper deal Arsenal’s teenage fullback Myles Lewis-Skelly reveals ‘mamba mentality’ that endears him to fans, team manager
As well as Myles, both Marcia and his father, Paul, spoke on their experience as academy parents. It was important to them that Mertesacker was present, given his role in Lewis-Skelly’s education. Mertesacker and under-18s coach Adam Birchall have been integral to Lewis-Skelly’s development.
Song and dance that shut out pangs of hunger in Kenyan refugee camp as Trump’s aid freeze takes heavy toll on youth in exile
The happiness of these children isn’t guaranteed now as funding cuts have affected operations here. Fewer resources and staff are available to engage the children and ensure their safety. One of the dancers, Gladis Amwony, has lived in Kakuma for eight years now. In recent years, she has started taking part in the Acholi traditional dances to keep her Ugandan roots alive.
