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Meru General Hospital once upgraded into a Level Six hospital is expected to receive patients referred from smaller facilities who require more specialised treatment.
Many parts of Buuri, Tigania, and Igembe have experienced poor rainfall, resulting in poor crop yields while incessant raids by cattle rustlers have compounded the crisis facing families.
Sustained efforts by former Meru Woman rep Forence Kajuju led to its recognition as a legal cash crop in 2016.
The Meru Central Dairy Cooperative Union, which runs a major processing plant near Meru Town, is Kenya’s biggest.
Anne Brigit Alande was diagnosed with a kidney disease while in primary school and underwent a kidney transplant performed in India after receiving a donation from her uncle.
Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku has called on people in Mt Kenya East region to propagate unity and support President William Ruto and his deputy Kithure Kindiki.
Mike Makarena says prayer restored his strength, a personal journey that now sits at the centre of Kenya’s most emotive faith conversations.
According to Governor Mutuma M'Ethingia, the Hewani Energy Project in Athwana ward, will present economic opportunities.
Once paralysed from the waist down, Makarena says prayer restored his strength, a personal journey that now sits at the centre of Kenya’s most emotive faith conversations.
It was a relief for Scholastica Waruona after listeners of a Meru language radio station paid her first-term school fees following the airing of her story.
With a dairy herd of 60 cows, David Mwenda says he had to insure them against various risks, including disease.
Some 28 schools spread across Meru, Isiolo, and Laikipia counties have benefited from modern classrooms, digital learning tools, and other educational empowerment.
Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku has accused former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of allegedly stage managing and sponsoring violence in church, for political mileage.
The treacherous River Nithi bridge has claimed tens of children, youths, and older persons since the late Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, opened it in 1983.
Chuka Girls High School closed indefinitely following protests by some parents demanding removal of Chief Principal Joan Muchina over alleged poor performance, among other issues.
Meru University of Science and Technology has launched a German language programme that will also involve tertiary institutions from the surrounding region.
The prolonged border closure had severely disrupted trade between Kenya and Somalia, with miraa farmers and traders among the hardest hit.
Miraa farmers in Meru have gotten relief after the government opened three border points with Somalia to allow for the transportation of the priced commodity.
Brigit lives with a single functioning kidney, the gift of a successful transplant donated by her maternal uncle, George Okeyo, performed in India on September 30, 2019.
Kenya Power Meru branch operations and maintenance manager Gideon Mbiuki said geospatial mapping of its installations unearthed theft of transformers.
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