Latest in Tag: Kenya Highlight
Latest in Tag: Kenya
Kenyan salon offers free wigs to cancer patients
Diana Aketch, a Kenyan beautician in Nairobi is handing out free wigs to cancer patients who are losing their hair due to chemotherapy. Her goal is to aid survivors to recover and battle cancer related discrimination.
Hundreds of thousands face hunger in western Kenya
Drought in Kenya’s West Pokot County has left hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of starvation. The Kenyan government has yet to intervene, forcing residents to move to other counties in search of food.
Kenya: Protester killed in anti-government rally
One man was killed and six others badly injured in anti-government demonstrations in Kenya. The country’s opposition has been protesting every Mondays against an alleged bias of Kenya’s electoral commission.
Egyptian delegation in Kenya didn’t state any racist comments: FM
The Foreign Ministry said a transcript and meeting points from the sessions proved that the allegations were “false”
Egypt demands apology for ‘allegations’ of racist remarks
Kenyan diplomat who reported the issue names assistant foreign minister as the official who made the comments
Egypt rejects purported accusations from Africa against its UNEA2 representative
UNEP Kenya representative demands an apology from Egypt over alleged misconduct
Corruption deeply rooted in Kenya, says anti-graft body
A report by Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) has revealed that graft was permeating all levels of society. It states that Kenyans even offer bribes for public services such as death certificates.
Egyptian women’s national volleyball team advances to African Volleyball Championship final
Egyptian women’s national volleyball team defeated the Kenyan national team in the semi-final of the African Volleyball Championship
Egypt strongly condemns attacks in Somalia
An integrated plan is needed to fight terrorism worldwide: Shoukry
Suspicious device prompts Air France flight’s emergency landing in Kenya
A suspicious device has prompted a French airliner carrying 473 people to make an emergency landing in Kenya. Passengers and crew were safely evacuated from the Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris. Kenyan police said the Boeing 777 was safely evacuated on Sunday after landing at Mombasa’s international airport. The device found in a …
Arrests follow mass grave claims in Kenya
Four politicians have been arrested after claiming that mass graves had been found in northern Kenya. The claims were later retracted but the four now face possible charges for inciting violence.
Delayed EgyptAir shipment blights Kenya exhibition
Chamber of Printing Industries decides to sue EgyptAir for $5m in compensation
African nations to seek chemical industry deals
Marketing companies to join January event, aiming to sell Egyptian chemicals
Foreign journalists between caution and refusal to visit Egypt
“If I were planning a vacation, Egypt would not be on my list,” says Nigerian journalist
Pope Francis on historic visit to Africa
Pope Francis has arrived in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. The pope came with a clear message to Kenya’s leaders: Fight corruption and poverty. From Nairobi, Daniel Pelz reports
Kenyan Muslims ‘will join others to welcome the pope’
Pope Francis is embarking on his first visit to Africa. In the three countries on his itinerary, he is expected to address the challenge of harmonizing relations between Christians and Muslims. Pope Francis is beginning a tour of three African countries, Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Repubublic. DW spoke to Hassan Ole Nado, Deputy …
Ministry of International Cooperation, AfDB sign $650,000 grant agreement
Finance is for first phase of initial feasibility studies needed to establish shipping line connecting Mediterranean Sea and Lake Victoria
Kenya’s Kipchoge wins Berlin marathon
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has come in first place at the Berlin marathon with just over a minute above the world record. Kenyans have taken the top prize in the German capital every year since 2010. Competing in the 42nd BMW Berlin Marathon, Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s marathon with a best unofficial time …
Kenya Airways ‘may require $500 million bailout’
Kenya Airways, the East African nation’s national carrier, ran into severe head winds last week reporting a record loss. The finance minister now says the airline may need a half a billion dollar bailout. Kenya Airways said its pre-tax loss had grown from 4.86 billion Kenyan shillings ($48 million) to 29.71 billion shillings ($293 million) …
Egyptian exports to Nile Basin countries register 8% increase YoY
Imports from Nile Basin decrease 71.7% in February 2015, compared to same period last year
Foreign Ministry, Al-Azhar condemn Al-Shabab attack
Terror attack by radical Islamist Al-Shabab militia on Thursday in Kenya sparks all-round condemnation
Abdel Nour meets Kenyan Minister of Agriculture
Ministerial meeting dealt with possible increase in Kenyan exports to Egypt, especially in products such as tea, fresh meat, live cattle
Al-Sisi meets 12 new ambassadors
President seeks fostering bilateral relations with different countries
Another way of ending FGM
By Dr César Chelala Female circumcision, also called female genital mutilation (FGM) is widely practiced in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East. More than 125 million women have been subjected to different forms of genital mutilation across Africa and in areas of western and southern Asia, and 2 million women undergo the procedure annually. …
Egypt condemns ‘terrorist’ attacks in Kenya, DRC
Both attacks have left dozens dead
At least 15 dead as Islamists strike again on Kenyan coast
AFP – At least 15 people have been killed in a new attack near Kenya’s coast, officials said Tuesday, just 24 hours after Somalia’s Shebab rebels massacred close to 50 people in the same area. The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group said its fighters carried out the latest attack on a village, and that its commando unit …
Internet access is no longer a luxury
Fibre-optics could leap-frog Africa into the future
TransCentury sells Rift Valley Railways stake to Egypt’s Citadel
Reuters – Kenya’s TransCentury said on Tuesday that it has sold its 34% stake in Rift Valley Railways (RVR) to Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital. Citadel said it bought the shares for $37.8m, raising its stake to 85%. Uganda’s Bomi Holdings owns the rest. RVR, operator of the sole rail line linking Kenya’s Indian …
Kenya extradites suspected extremists to Belgium
Mustapha Bouyahbaren, Rachid Benomari and Mohamed Said had been serving a one-year jail sentence in Kenya, after being found guilty in July 2013 of illegally entering the country.
Counting the cost of East Africa’s poaching economy
Kenyan and Tanzanian ports are the “primary gateway” for ivory smuggled to Asia, where demand is fuelled by increasingly affluent markets, especially in China, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warns.