Education for all (EFA) remains a pipe dream to communities in the arid areas
By Malachi Motano Over a decade ago, the UN member states rolled out Education For All (EFA) programme at a conference in Dakar-Senegal backed up in Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number 2. This was...
View ArticleThe message Pontiff left Kenyan youth and families
By Cyrus Kioko The three days visit to Kenya by Pope Francis has been celebrated nationally with thousands of people attending his public mass at University of Nairobi on Thursday. Overwhelmed Kenyans...
View ArticleMobile schools in Turkana helping transform education
Education in Kenya continues facing challenges ranging from lack of infrastructure, enough study materials and poor pay for teachers. These are just a few of the challenges known on the national scale...
View ArticleDoctor rules out possibility of lead poisoning for Thange residents affected...
A doctor has ruled out any possibility of lead poisoning among residents of Thange village in Kibwezi, Makueni County affected by an oil spillage that contaminated water sources. Dr. Tom Bosire Menge a...
View ArticleKenyan entrepreneur asks President Kenyatta to crack whip on ‘billionaires...
A Kenyan fed up with corruption in government has written President Uhuru Kenyatta asking him to have ‘do nothing’ billionaires audited. The letter by Tim Kipchumba, the Co-Founder and Chief Finance...
View ArticleNew HIV infections increasingly occurring among teenagers compounding...
On World Aids Day (WAD), Kenyans commemorated it in different parts of the country in different ways. With gains made towards eliminating the virus that causes Aids, HIV, statistics give a gloomy...
View ArticleWe need proper laws to ensure accountability of County officials
By George Githinji Recent happenings in the county governments point to a leadership that is not properly endowed with the requisite skills essential to steer these entities. For example, Nyamira...
View ArticleSant’Egidio Kenya thanks Pope for meeting them
When the announcement of the coming of the Pope was officially made to Kenyans in July, a little known community of Catholic faithful in the country set on an agenda to meet him. Known as the Community...
View ArticleMakueni Governor outlines his key achievements in the last two years
Makueni County Governor Kivutha Kibwana has outlined health, infrastructural development and issuance of title deeds as some of the key accomplishments that the County Government has achieved in the...
View ArticleKENIC’s shut down of a Kenyan Domain an infringement on internet Freedoms
Earlier today, a Kenyan registered website www.isUhuruInKenya.co.ke was brought down by Kenya's Top Level domain custodian KENIC. The website which was created last week on Friday 4th December, was...
View ArticleKenyans displeased with ‘tourist’ President Kenyatta, want austerity measures...
This December, the Presidency has been taken to ask to explain how it is spending billions of shillings despite promising austerity measures to cut ‘fluffy’ government expenditure. In what is becoming...
View ArticleFGM is a tool to protect the spread of HIV, Maasais say
By Malachi Motano “Cutting girls is something our people have done for hundreds of years,” Nashilu Lenteiyo, the senior Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) ‘surgeon’ in the Maasai community of Ol Donyo...
View ArticleSchooling under the gun common in Turkana
By Malachi Motano As many different school motto’s read; Education is the Key to success, Knowledge is light, profession is power and the general belief that it is education that transforms young boys...
View ArticleNakuru woman with strange disease appeals for medical support
By Njeri Kimani For two years, 55 year old Priscilla Kaniaru has been confined to her house in Kiamunyi area in Nakuru. What started as an off and on loss of vision ended up in a battle to survive. In...
View ArticleFreedom of expression invaluable in development
Article 33 of the Constitution of Kenya states that every person has the right to freedom of expression, which includes freedom to seek, receive or impart information or ideas, freedom of artistic...
View ArticleOf Pope Francis, the ecological sin and why we need to confess
As we mark the international human rights day this year, Kenya and the rest of the world is mourning the death of the ‘Marsh Pride’ who were poisoned in the Mara. The death calls to mind the many...
View ArticleHow lack of water denies Kenyans the ‘right to life’ in West Pokot
‘Pusu poltoy cho relach’ meaning, like clouds in the sky, new people will replace old ones but people will continue to exist. This Pokot saying shows they believe in a future. As the climate change...
View ArticleYouths in Isiolo shifting from pastoralism to modern agriculture
By Malachi Motano The harsh economic times and the attempts to fight food insecurity are making nomadic communities in Isiolo County shift from herding to crop production. This is thanks to Isiolo...
View ArticleInternet Freedoms Citizen Education Campaign launch on 15th December
When you log onto the internet, do you fully understand your rights as an internet user? Are you aware of your right to hold opinions without interference, your right to freedom of expression and...
View ArticleParents are to blame for bad conduct among teens
By Elly Mwaghumba In recent times, we have been astonished by cases of improper conduct among high school students with hundreds being arrested by the police for being found in night clubs contrary to...
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