WASHINGTON, March 8, 2017 “Famine is a stain on our collective conscience. Millions of lives are at risk and more will die if we do not act quickly and decisively," World Bank Group President Jim Y
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WASHINGTON D.C., February 27, 2017 Residents of seven rapidly urbanizing cities in Tanzania will benefit from funding to scale up infrastructure investments and promote growth, the World Bank Group
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NAIROBI: At least 30 smallholder farmers from Kiambu, Meru, Machakos and Makueni counties today, set off from Thika on a 4-day resilience journey that will see them engage county leaders and Kenyans
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Marie Stopes International has resumed pregnancy terminations seven weeks after they were suspended because of "serious concerns" about patient safety. In August, the Care Quality Commission, found
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New York, 20 September, 2016 – Tanzanian Rebeca Gyumi, executive director of the Msichana Initiative in Tanzania, was honoured at the first annual Global Goals Awards in New York for her efforts to e
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WASHINGTON, March 8, 2017 “Famine is a stain on our collective conscience. Millions of lives are at risk and more will die if we do not act quickly and decisively,” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said today, following the devastating levels of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen. “We at the World […]
WASHINGTON D.C., February 27, 2017 Residents of seven rapidly urbanizing cities in Tanzania will benefit from funding to scale up infrastructure investments and promote growth, the World Bank Group announced today. The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved up to $130 million in additional financing for the Tanzania Strategic Cities Project (TSCP) covering the […]
NAIROBI: At least 30 smallholder farmers from Kiambu, Meru, Machakos and Makueni counties today, set off from Thika on a 4-day resilience journey that will see them engage county leaders and Kenyans on the ideal agricultural system. They say that a new plan should help Kenya and the continent, exhibit produce, share knowledge and share […]
Marie Stopes International has resumed pregnancy terminations seven weeks after they were suspended because of “serious concerns” about patient safety. In August, the Care Quality Commission, found poor management and unsatisfactory training before surgery. Inspectors also questioned arrangements for getting patients’ consent for terminations. Marie Stopes responded by suspending some abortions. It suspended those undertaken […]
New York, 20 September, 2016 – Tanzanian Rebeca Gyumi, executive director of the Msichana Initiative in Tanzania, was honoured at the first annual Global Goals Awards in New York for her efforts to end child marriage in Tanzania. “I would like to dedicate this award to all Tanzanian girls and every girl around the world […]
Nairobi: Fr. Theodore Walters, SJ was buried at Karen, Nairobi on Saturday 17th August 2016. The mass was presided by Rev. Fr. Joseph Afulo Oduor, SJ, Provincial Eastern Africa Province of the Society of Jesus. His close life-long friend, Josephat Mwanzi,was present. When he was given a chance to give a short eulogy he revealed […]
In 2002 Fr. Walters received some money to buy a new car for the old one had been in bad shape. But he spent much of that money to pay school fees for students he helped and medications for some patients who knocked at his door. One day his car did not start and he […]
Keroche Chief Executive Officer Tabitha Karanja has been awarded the prestigious Entrepreneurial Excellence in Africa Award, for her efforts in contributing to the country’s economic development. Tabitha is the founder of Keroche has been recognised for her stewardship of the Naivasha-based brewery which since its establishment in 1997, has grown tremendously, creating employment and economic […]
With some 400 million people around the world infected with hepatitis B or C, the United Nations health agency today encouraged countries to boost testing and access to services and medicines for people in need. “The world has ignored hepatitis at its peril,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the UN World Health Organization […]
Nairobi: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited the world’s largest refugee camp on her 19th birthday Tuesday and voiced concern that Kenya’s plans to close it could create “a generation lost.” The government announced in May that it plans to close the camp in eastern Kenya near the Somali border by the end of the year, […]
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