Kenyan recycling firm mixes kitchen waste to boost urban farming
reuters: Kenyan urban farmer Francis Wachira credits a soil recycling company with keeping him afloat financially during the coronavirus crisis: it helped him to start producing herbs and vegetables on his tiny More...
Kenya’s president Kenyatta extends nationwide curfew to curb COVID-19 spread
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Monday he had extended a nationwide curfew for another 30 days and banned alcohol sales in restaurants to curb the spread of COVID-19. The nightly curfew had been due to More...
Deepest Sorrows and Condolences – John Small CEO Eastern Africa Association.
The Eastern Africa business community are deeply saddened by the death of the region’s leading supporter the late John Small who passed away suddenly on the 14/7/2020. John was the chief executive officer More...
UK to offer work permits to non-graduate Kenyans
Highly skilled Kenyans without degree-level qualifications will from next year be allowed to apply for work permits in Britain under post-Brexit immigration rules, enabling them to compete with job-seekers from More...
Kenya prevails at ICSID as WalAm energy case against Kenya is dismissed.
Kenya declares win in a geothermal energy dispute after the tribunal ruled in favour of Kenya. Had the ruling been in favour of WalAm, the case would have cost Kenya’s already stretched tax payers at least More...
Wheels for life – Ambulance service responding to women in labour – Kenya
Doctors in Nairobi realising the rising rates of women during childbirth came together and established a free ambulance service that responds to women in labour during the covid 19 pandemic. To curb the spread More...
Kenya’s WTO Candidate is Hon. Amina Mohamed
Kenya has nominated Hon. Amina Mohamed for the WTO’s DG position. This nomination brings the number of Africa candidates to 3 . The list includes Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and another from Egypt. Africa More...
Kenya – Cautious optimism as the country opens up after months of partial lockdown
Reuters – Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Monday a phased reopening of the country from a COVID-19 lockdown, lifting restrictions on travel in and out of the capital Nairobi and allowing air More...
The elections that was #Kenya
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election in August 2017 faced so many allegations of fraud that the Supreme Court annulled the results. But Kenya’s top opposition figure Raila Odinga dropped out of the More...
Malawi’s president H.E. Lazarus Chakwera sworn in, promises to serve and not to rule
Malawi’s opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera on Saturday was declared the winner of a re-run presidential election, a dramatic reversal of incumbent Peter Mutharika’s discredited win 13 months earlier in a process More...
