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Each year Kenya reports bigger tree-planting numbers: more seedlings in the ground, more volunteers turning out, more restoration goals declared. Environmental defenders now want to know what the national tally leaves out: how much standing forest is being lost while the planting is celebrated? More than 200 Kenyans took that question to the Ministry of…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 – More than 200 Kenyans marched to the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry on Tuesday and handed over a petition with over 60,000 signatures demanding that the government halt the destruction of public forests and present a forest protection plan on Mazingira Day this Saturday. The march was led…
NAIROBI, Kenya,Oct 6 – Kenya’s veterinary doctors are asking Parliament to intervene in what they describe as a 19-year pay and internship disparity, warning that continued neglect of the profession could undermine the country’s ability to control zoonotic diseases and protect food security. The Kenya Veterinary Association (KVA) wants veterinary doctors to be accorded remuneration…
Health ministry traces 28 contacts and 27 fellow air passengers and crew after Bundibugyo virus case arrives from DRC via Kampala NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 – Kenya has confirmed its first imported case of Ebola (Bundibugyo virus disease), and the patient has died, Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale announced on Tuesday. The patient was a…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 4 – At the Sarit Expo Centre this week, the opening of the 9th Kenya International Industrial Expo and Kenya Investment & Trade Fair carried the usual trappings of a trade show: rows of exhibition stands, business cards changing hands, ribbon-cutting formality. But beneath the ceremony, the two opening addresses one from…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 23- Every year, long before a single meal goes uneaten at a Kenyan dinner table, the country is already losing. Not to drought alone, and not only to disease outbreaks on the farm, but to something quieter and far less dramatic: spoilage. Milk can curdle before it reaches a buyer. Trays of…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 17– Kevin Muchirwo, cancer was never supposed to be part of the plan.A distance runner who considered himself to be at the peak of his fitness and relatively young, Muchirwo did not fit the image of someone living with multiple myeloma. Yet almost 11 years after his diagnosis, cancer has become an…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 17 -From smart irrigation and agricultural drones to automated poultry systems and biodegradable packaging, technologies aimed at changing how food is produced, processed and packaged will take centre stage when Nairobi hosts the 10th International Trade Expo AgroFood-Plastpack-Paper 2026. The three-day exhibition, scheduled for August 20–22 at the Sarit Expo Centre, is…
PHOTO: Delegates led by KNCCI National Director Mr Ken Onditi ,[Far Left] Afripeak Expo Kenya Managing Director Gao Wei cut ribbon during the opening of the third edition of the East Africa (Kenya) Fashion Life Show Expo at Sarit Centre,Nairobi . NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 14– For Kenyan businesses exhibiting at the East Africa (Kenya) Fashion…
PHOTO: Han Ke’s legal team outside court as the Chinese investor seeks KSh110 million in damages from Chuanshan International Mining Company. NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 12 – A Chinese investor and former founding director of Chuanshan International Mining Company, Han Ke, is demanding KSh110 million in damages from the firm, alleging an elaborate scheme was used…
