Explosive Saturday Leaves Kenya Wanting
The potential was obvious, the spirit willing, but the stamina was lacking (topi lyambila writes) as Kenya lost the chance to go top of the table in the medal standings on Day 4 of the IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. With 300 metres to go, in the 800m boys final, Kibiwott Toroitich and Noah Kiprono gave away the lead as they ‘stepped More...
NAIROBI FIRES UP FOR IAAF WORLD U18 SHOWPIECE
The Golden Girls of the 60s and 70s fame..(l-r)-Tecla Chemabwai, Jeni Wambui Kenyatta, Lydia Stevens flanked by Rose Tata-Muya- from the 90s fame. The skies opened up soon after the opening speech by President More...
Kenya’s Opposition discredit Governments’ handling of Food Crisis and Graft to win votes
The Kenyan government’s handling of food shortages caused by one of the East African nation’s worst droughts in three decades and allegations of corruption are emerging as the key opposition weapons in its bid More...
Finsbury Park attack: Theresa May condemns ‘sickening’ terror attack
A terror attack near a London mosque is “every bit as sickening” as others in recent weeks, Theresa May says. A man drove a van into worshippers close to Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park as they More...
Some dead, at least 50 taken to hospital, as fire engulfs #Grenfell tower block
Fire engulfed a 24-storey block of flats in central London on Wednesday, killing some people, injuring at least 50 more and trapping some residents asleep inside the towering inferno. Flames licked up the sides More...
Visa-free travel in Africa remains far off
BY 2063, according to the African Union’s (AU) rather long-range prediction, Africa will be “a continent of seamless borders”. People, capital, goods and services will flow freely from South Africa to Tunisia More...
Kenya Commercial Bank takeover bid for National Bank
Bloomberg: Kenya’s biggest bank by assets offered to buy a state-owned lender as the industry struggles to cope with interest-rate caps that have cut profits and curbed lending. Kenya’s biggest bank by assets More...
#Machester Arena Attack: Suicide bomber kills at least 22 at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester
A suicide bomber has killed 22 people – including children – in an explosion at an Ariana Grande pop concert at the Manchester Arena At least 22 people, including some children, were killed and 59 were More...
Europeans Who Don’t Like African Migrants Should Thank Drought. It Has Dramatically Slowed Down Their Flight
IT’S often assumed that the African migrants who now make up the majority of those taking boats across the Mediterranean to Europe are fleeing grinding poverty back home. But, in a curious development, an article More...
How Kenya’s Drought Has Turned Into Violence
Nairobi, Kenya (AP) — The shooting of a novelist and conservationist in Kenya has drawn attention to the violent tensions between landowners and herders who are trying to keep their animals alive in a widespread More...
