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A total of 64 out of 65 registered teams participated, a sharp increase from last year's 54 competitors and the previous year’s 52 entrants.
The Kenyan government has reported to the African Court that financial constraints and political reshuffles have stalled its compliance to implement the Ogiek Court ruling.
Environmentalists have raised concerns about the non-compliance with the ban on single-use plastic bags.
In November 2023, UNESCO placed Nakuru and Port Louis in Mauritius to its list of Creative Cities Network. The two cities became the first in Eastern Africa to join the prestigious network.
From youths humorously posting their last wishes and eulogies, complete with the photos they’d like used on their epitaphs, online platforms have become home to darkly comic posts.
Conservationists have slammed Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli’s proposal to scrap Nairobi National Park to create space for expansion of the city.
In villages like Ozi, where most residents are farmers who depend on the Tana River for fresh water, each harvest has continued to shrink as salty water from the sea keeps pushing inland.
According to a report released yesterday, it is estimated that the continent is home to more than 3,200 freshwater fish.
The National Treasury has terminated the Sh337 billion High Grand Dam falls project in Tharaka Nithi County over failure to meet key regulatory requirements during the evaluation process.
Dr James Klarevas-Irby, a co-author of the study, noted that an individual’s heart rate increases when they attempt to lead without gaining enough support.
The farms around are dotted with patches of lush green, a phenomenon that is slowly replicating across 105 villages spread across the country's largest delta, the Tana Delta.
new study has revealed that sexual health knowledge and modern contraceptive use among women with disabilities in many countries, including Kenya, is very low.
Despite poaching in Africa dropping to its lowest level since 2011, rhino population continues to decline, largely due to drought, management challenges, and a fall in white rhino numbers.
Stakeholders in academia are advocating for increased funding for research, as institutions face cash crunch following the departure of USAID, a major research funder.
Around the same time, a flock of flamingos also became victims of the ever-increasing casualties in the delicate balance between conservation and development.
The experts, drawn from institutions in Kenya and Tanzania, will be undertaking the project that is expected to pave the way for the development of vaccines to combat the disease.
Mourners turn up for burial only to be told the body was missing at the hospital. Body of a baby that went missing at the Nakuru Level 5 in February is yet to be found.
The lowest in the ranking are language teachers, who are awarded 25 marks, and humanities teachers, who receive five marks.
Extreme weather events pose a challenge to butterfly farming for export, a trade that has been going on for decades.
Air pollution in Kenya is 3.2 times higher than the WHO guidelines and 0.7 times higher than the global average.
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