The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
Students from the Kenyatta University in Kenya have developed the Tiba Vent, a respirator which they hope can save lives and money in the battle against COVID-19. It is meant to solve the shortage of the equipment needed to treat patients who are most seriously affected by the virus. “Currently we know that there are […]
Kenya Airways Plc expects demand for air tour for the rest of this year to be less than half of the level in 2019 due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The partly state-owned East African provider is beginning to resume worldwide flights after the government eased tour restrictions it imposed to help […]
Kenya has extended its coronavirus curfew for another thirty days. Bars and nightclubs will stay closed for another month, but the number of people allowed to attend weddings, funerals and other events has been increased. The Kenyan curfew from 9pm to 4am was introduced on the twenty fifth of March. The Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta […]
Among the Bukusu, of the Luhya tribe in western Kenya, teenage boys become men during celebrations that last several days, and during which they are circumcised. Despite the dangers associated with COVID-19, the Bukusu have decided to keep their tradition alive and maintain the ceremony this year. “We know this year there is corona,” Peter […]
Kabaka Mutebi has visited Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, a improvement that further dispels allegations that he used to be dead. “President Uhuru Kenyatta these days at State House, Nairobi held talks with the Kabaka of the Buganda Kingdom, Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera Muwenda Mutebi II who paid him a visit,” a tweet from State Kenya […]
A Locust Desert Storm The Horn of Africa, fighting an unprecedented proliferation of locust crop pests for months, is dealing with an exacerbated meals scarcity hazard — with plants of farmers in Turkana county, Kenya, decimated by way of an infestation of wasteland locusts. The unwelcome presence of the barren region locusts is severely impacting […]
Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala has been launched from police custody unconditionally after spending the night at the Mumias Police Station. Malala used to be taken in on Monday in Nairobi and pushed to Mumias by the DCI officers against the wishes of his attorney John Khaminwa. The move to release the senator barring pressing fees […]
Kenya is in a race to track locusts to stop a new plague from forming in East Africa and ingesting all the greenery they find in their wake. Hundreds of billions of locusts swarmed parts of East Africa and Asia in February, wreaking havoc for livestock farmers. It is feared the tiny invaders ought to […]
The new cohort of university college students ought to pay Sh48,000 in lessons fees, three instances the cutting-edge Sh16,000 if a inspiration by means of vice chancellors is adopted. The prices amplify is intended to plug income holes created through the de facto abolition of the privately sponsored students programme in 2015 and cowl for […]
Blazing Flames Crisped landscapes and burnt animal remains, the aftermath of a horrendous fire at Kenya’s Tsavo West National Park extinguished Monday, as announced by The Kenya Wildlife Service — after two gruelling days of firefighting efforts from the military, industry partners, non-governmental wildlife organisations, government agencies and around 400 local resident volunteers. Amongst them […]
Hospital body of workers gears up, for some other day treating COVID 19 patients. These past few days the quantity of coronavirus contaminations have spiked in Kenya, accomplishing as an awful lot as 960 contaminations for July twenty sixth alone. Alcohol sale was banned and a curfew used to be extended in order to end the […]
A domestic feud ended on a bitter notice after a man stabbed and killed his wife in Gilgil town earlier than surrendering himself to the police. The Tuesday morning incident took place in Gilgil sub-county clinic personnel quarters where two minors died on Monday night time after they were poisoned through unknown persons. In the […]
Kenya Sunday recorded the highest number of daily Covid-19 infections since March 13, a development likely to inform the outcome of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s crisis meeting with governors on Monday. According to the Health ministry, 960 people tested positive out of 8,261 samples that were Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe in a statement said Nairobi […]
Africa’s complete range of confirmed coronavirus cases has surpassed 800,000. That’s according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. South Africa has well over 1/2 the suggested instances on the 54-nation continent, however infections are now mountaineering swiftly in other countries including Kenya, East Africa’s financial hub, with greater than 16,000. Africa used […]
The education sector is on the edge of a new crisis — that of private schools crumbling due to the prolonged closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the last few weeks, many schools have issued notices asking parents to transfer their children. They have also had to send support staff home on unpaid leave […]
How to shelter livestock is an issue that has been at the heart of discussions in Uganda. After more than 10 years of relative calm, poachers have returned to service in the Karamoja subregion, in northeastern Uganda. The poachers took advantage of the conflict in South Sudan and the anarchy in north-west Kenya to stock […]
Family members and colleagues on Monday gather at the funeral of the first Kenyan doctor, Doreen Adisa Lugaliki in Bungoma, who has tragically become the first doctor in Kenya to die from COVID-19. “Our flower has been plucked” says the deceased’s sister, and colleagues mourn the loss in what is for them, a battle against […]
The Kenyan giant is renouncing the acquisition of African subsidiaries of the British headquartered bank Atlas Mara. A decision linked to Covid-19, but not entirely. Atlas Mara – listed on the London Stock Exchange and co-founded by former Barclays boss Bob Diamond, its CEO until February 2019 – and Equity Group Holdings (EGH) have ended […]