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House Finance Committee finalise report on 2025 tax proposal

NAIROBI — Kenya’s lawmakers are entering the final stretch of debate over the country’s contentious 2025 Finance Bill. After weeks of public outcry, c...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Kenya

Ruto promises Ksh.50,000 Start-Up Fund for Youth and Women in Every Ward

NAIROBI — President William Ruto has promised to give Ksh.50,000 to 70 women and youth in every ward across Kenya to help them start small businesses....

1 year ago · By Frank Kiforo

Africa

From Tseikuru to the world Jimmy Musili is rethinking conservation from the ground up

TSEIKURU, Kenya — Long before Jimmy Musili stood in the climate labs of Yale University, he was just a barefoot boy darting through the dry forests of...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Africa

Kenya urged to join global fossil fuel treaty

NAIROBI — Climate campaigners marked World Environment Day on Wednesday with a clear demand to the Kenyan government: break ties with fossil fuels and...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Africa

Climate Action the global push to save a warming world

LONDON — Climate action. It’s a term often heard in speeches, splashed across international agreements, and repeated at global summits. But what does...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Africa

Nairobi to host global summit on protecting schools from conflict

Nairobi - Kenya will host a major international summit in December, bringing the world’s attention to a growing crisis how to keep schools safe during...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Agriculture

Biosafety national forum aims to build public trust in GMOs

Naivasha - Thirteen years after Kenya began regulating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the conversation is far from settled. Next week, the Nat...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Agriculture

Kenya’s flower exports set to climb as global demand blooms

NAIROBI — Kenya’s flower industry is gearing up for a brighter season. Exports are expected to climb to Sh110 billion (roughly $851 million) in 2025,...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Kenya

Ogiek community demands Gov’t to honour landmark land rights ruling

Arusha, Tanzania – Eight years after a landmark ruling affirmed their rights to ancestral land in Kenya’s Mau Forest, the Ogiek community is still wai...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Climate

Choking Skies: Canadian Wildfires Blanket One-Third of the US including New York in Smoke

Thick smoke from raging wildfires in Canada has drifted over a third of the United States, casting a grey haze across skies from the Midwest to the De...

1 year ago · By Frank Kiforo

Kenya

EACC recovers stolen land worth Sh400 Million in Nairobi’s Loresho

NAIROBI — A Nairobi court has ordered the return of prime public land worth more than Sh400 million after ruling it was illegally seized and sold to p...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari

Climate

Murkomen hails Green Climate Fund for approving $900mn to fund climate resilient projects in Kenya

NAIROBI – Kenya has welcomed a significant financial boost to its climate efforts after the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved $937.66million for proje...

1 year ago · By Nixon Ngari