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The newly elevated Dr Aggrey National School in Wundanyi is in the bad news again after fire destroyed property of unknown value on Thursday evening
Newly elevated Dr Aggrey National School closed indefinitely to pave way for investigations into frequent fire outbreaks.
The school has reported four fire outbreaks in the recent past. Last year, parents paid Sh5.5 million for damages after a dormitory was razed.
13 people, including 12 students and a guard, were arrested after fires and unrest hit several schools across Kenya’s Coast region, leaving students injured and property destroyed.
Mvurya and the legislators declared that the Coast region was no longer an opposition zone and the ruling coalition would field candidates in all elected positions next year.
Dr Aggrey Boys National School has once again caught fire, sending teachers, parents and students into panic.
Several Taita Taveta County's motor vehicles are lying in a sorry state, either in garages or outside county government offices, due to a lack of funds to repair them.
The Kenya Wildlife Service has raised an alarm over the widespread sale and consumption of game meat in the vast Tsavo Conservation Area
The multi-million-shilling Maungu lorry park in Taita Taveta, which was supposed to reduce congestion in the town and increase the county’s revenue collection, is underutilised.
A row is brewing between Voi MP Abdi Chome and the NGAO over the delay in the distribution of the NG-CDF bursaries in Voi Constituency.
KWS says poachers are indiscriminately killing wildlife, particularly small game, for both subsistence and commercial trade.
Internal Security Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo has said that the government has established an Ebola isolation centre at the Taveta-Holili border point of entry.
Taita Taveta County has adopted a forest conservation policy that will enable communities living near forests to share in forest-derived benefits while promoting conservation.
The launch of iron ore deliveries to a new Sh11 billion steel plant in Taita Taveta County marks a major step towards industrialisation.
Senate speaker Amason Kingi and Sports Cabinet Secretary Salim Mvurya have urged Coast communities to chart the way forward of the region ahead of the next polls.
A row has erupted between a private investor and squatters over the ownership of 100 acres of land in Taita Taveta County.
Officials in Taita Taveta have raised alarm over rising cases of defilement and sodomy targeting Grade Six and Seven pupils, blaming weak reporting, home-based settlements and parental inaction.
Officials and community leaders in Taita Taveta have raised concern over a rise in suicides among men, citing economic hardship, domestic challenges and substance abuse.
The bishop said he had spoken to God, who had shown him a vision and revelation that the donation was evil and the family should reject and return it.
An exploration Taita Taveta’s largely overlooked World War I heritage, highlighting sites such as the Sniper’s Baobab, Salaita Hill, the Voi–Taveta railway and Maktau airstrip.
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