BANDANI, Kisumu, August 2026 – As Kenya gears up for the 2027 General Election, the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) and Muslim clerics in Kisumu are calling for peace, tolerance and national cohesion. They warned that the spontaneous 2007 post-election violence was a mistake that must never be repeated. Their call comes amid a recent…
MASENO, Aug 28, 2026 – The ambitious Sh4 billion transformation of the 120-year-old Maseno High School into an ultra-modern learning, sporting and cultural complex kicked off Friday with the groundbreaking for 40 classrooms and 8 laboratories. The ceremony marks the start of a four-year renewal plan aimed at replacing dilapidated infrastructure that has served the…
MILIMANI, August, 2026 – The kick-off of the 2026/27 SportPesa Kenya Premier League season hangs in the balance after the High Court in Milimani declined to lift orders blocking its commencement. Football Kenya Federation (FKF) had filed an urgent application seeking to have the orders vacated to allow the league to start this Saturday, but…
MALINDI, August 2026 – Agriculture Cabinet Secretary(CS) Mutahi Kagwe has ordered a nationwide crackdown on unsafe pesticides, saying Kenya will not be a dumping ground for products banned in other countries. “My position is clear. Any pesticide banned anywhere in the world will be banned in Kenya. If it is banned in one EAC country,…
In the high-level plenaries of global climate summits, diplomatic pledges for multi-million-dollar adaptation funds are routinely made with fanfare. Panelists pronounce terms like “climate resilience,” “just transition,” and “loss and damage funding pathways.” Yet, thousands of miles away in the dusty, sun baked landscape of Homa Bay County, Kenya, the operational reality of rural healthcare…
The Old Trafford club have paid an initial £65m, plus a potential £5m in add-ons, for the 22-year-old, while Brighton have negotiated a sell-on clause. United targeted Baleba after deciding to strengthen their midfield further following the summer arrivals of Andrey Santos from Chelsea and Youri Tielemans from Aston Villa. Baleba has signed a five…
TENNESSEE,August 2026 -Dolly Parton, the country singer from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, will be remembered for her songs that told beautiful stories so honestly, such as Coat of Many Colors, Jolene and I Will Always Love You. In a seven-decade career, Parton won 10 Grammy awards, sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and…
Analysis of 1,083 verifiable citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and Perplexity finds nearly 7 in 10 come from UN or multilateral organisations NAIROBI, Kenya, August 2026 –Only 5.5% of citations used by four major AI platforms to answer questions about humanitarian crises in Africa came from organisations based in the countries in crisis, a new…
Climate change is increasingly taking a toll on the health of Kenyans, with malaria emerging in places where it was once uncommon, floods disrupting health facilities, prolonged drought worsening malnutrition, and extreme heat exposing communities to new health risks. The growing health burden of a changing climate was highlighted during a virtual Media Science Café…
When devastating floods sweep through villages and drought leaves livestock and families hungry or dead, journalists with their cameras troop to the scenes, capturing submerged homes, interviewing displaced families, televisions screens and newspaper pages begin to fill with images of cracked earth and overflowing rivers. But as the floodwaters recede and the drought eases, so…