Kenya

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

In the Samburu reserve in the north of the country, an elephant has given birth to twins; twin births account for only 1% of the elephant population

Although there are millions of flamingos in lakes located in the Great Rift Valley, their population in the country is rapidly declining in number, as hundreds died stranded in thorny bushes as water levels steadily rise

A nationwide blackout affected all 54million citizens after a high-voltage energy pylon fell over; state-run Kenya Power, the sole energy distributor in the country, restored power in highly populated areas within a couple of hours

On the shores of Lake Victoria, Nairobi-based green energy provider Biogas International is piloting a project that is converting the invasive water hyacinth plant into cleaner cooking fuel