Kenya

The country has approved the import of GM animal feed ingredients, a decision that comes shortly after a national dialogue in Nairobi on the development of a sustainable animal feed system in Kenya

A five-year plan has been launched to enhance food and nutrition security amid final months of electoral campaign; severe drought has affected over three million people

Students and staff of the Kenya School of Flying at Wilson Airport in Nairobi welcomed Rutherford, 16-year-old British-Belgian attempting to break the current world record for youngest person to fly solo around the world

Towns outside Nairobi have registered higher inflation rates than the capital for the first time in close to a decade and amid rising population they overtake the capital in terms of cost of living

Independent aspirants aiming for seats in the August general elections have protested various conditions set by the electoral agency, like the requirement to obtain signatures from a specific number of supporters in the areas where they are seeking seats

The State has allocated Sh1,17 billion (€9,3 million) for the implementation of the Nairobi bus rapid transport BRT; with 12 mobility corridors it will decongest central district and surroundings

Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund has completed an equity investment in Koko Networks, a technology start-up specialising in the cooking fuel market, based in Nairobi

Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta shaved off Field Marshall Muthoni Wa Kirima's dreadlocks during a ceremony in Kamakwa; Muthoni Wa Kirima had donned her dreadlocks for 70 years, as a testimony to her frontline role in Kenya’s fight for independence

The Khalifa Empowerment Programme Aqdar has completed the first phase of the 'Fifty Tree' initiative campaign, launched at the Aqdar World Summit Dubai Expo 2020, which aims to plant 50.000 mangrove trees in strategic areas

US-based biotechnology company Moderna plans to invest more than $500 million in a mRNA vaccine and drug manufacturing facility in the country

Farmlands are increasingly becoming arid, leaving farmers without crops, even though many complain that they invested large sums of money on seeding; some have come to the point of giving up planting crops altogether

A new beverage is hit in downtown Nairobi: cappuccino with a splash of camel's milk; demand for milk was initially growing from the Somali community and now from the whole population

The Kenya National Farmers Federation has launched its strategic plan for 2022-2026 with which they will support farmers' issues and requests; an important theme among others is sustainable agri-food system