If there is one thing that guarantees to unify 85% of Kenyan Citizens, young old, working or not, whatever their tribe, (apparently 85% of the country is Christian) are the events in the church that night in Eldoret. Damian , an established IT consultant in Nairobi says “We struggle to take it in, this level [...]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has discovered further falsified batches of Zidolam-N, the anti-retroviral (ARV) drug commonly used in the treatment of HIV, that was found to have been tampered with in September. Tablets carrying a reference of ‘batch number E100766’ were previously identified as fake, and WHO has now confirmed batch numbers A9351, A9357, [...]
This week the Kenya Wildlife Service will begin transferring fifty Elephants from Narok North to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok South, in a move intended to alleviate an increasingly strained relationship between humans and wildlife in the area. The ten-day exercise is the first phase of a broader plan to relocate 200 Elephants, [...]
A Kenyan human rights activist held with no evidence for his involvement in a bomb attack in Uganda last year has now been released without charge. Al-Amin Kimathi and four others were freed at the start of their trial which began on Monday 12th Sept. Amnesty International’s Africa Deputy Programme director Michelle Kagari commented that [...]
It is no secret that global food prices are rising drastically. But, when combined with continued volatility the poorest people in the developing world will be at continued risk, according to the World Bank Group’s Food Price Watch. High food prices have worsened the crisis in the Horn of Africa together with prolonged droughts, especially [...]
British Airways has flown a relief aircraft full of emergency supplies and equipment provided by the United Nations and Oxfam to the drought hit areas of East Africa. A Boeing 747 freighter departed Stansted Airport in London on 12 August to Ethiopia where more than 12 million people are reported to be at risk from [...]
The worst drought in two decades has left about 11 million East Africans in acute need of food and water. Western NGOs are urging people to donate money while images of malnourished children appear on the world’s TV screens. Is Africa still the helpless and weak continent the media portrayed it to be twenty years [...]
Jane Weru, the head of the NGO Akiba Mashinan Trust is to receive an innovation award from the Rockefeller Foundation for Her Progressive Work with the Poor and vulnerable in Kenya. Kenya’s Jane Weru, who has worked to build a movement of self-empowerment and community-led solutions for slum dwellers, has since last year through her [...]
Illegal ivory destined for West Africa and purported to be from two non-existent embassies based in the capital Nairobi was seized early this month at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The 115 pieces of elephant ivory weighing 1,304kg packed in 14 metal boxes had been disguised as diplomatic baggage. They were detected and seized by [...]
A program for the improvement of nursing skills in Sub- Saharan Africa has been established. It followed calls from East African governments to improve the region’s healthcare and human resource capacity. The new initiative, funded by the Rotarian Foundation and Aga Khan University, will operate in Sub-Saharan countries where statistics show that one in thirty [...]
