Toyota, the global automotive giant, has been forced to suspend operations at the majority of its assembly plants in Japan due to a system malfunction. This disruption comes as a significant setback for the world’s largest carmaker, impacting its production capabilities. As a result of the glitch, Toyota had to halt operations at 12 out […]
Cummins Car and General has delivered three giant Cummins generators, 220 KVA ,350 KVA and 450 KVA to the Ministry of Health which will be installed at the Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital to provide electricity for the Hospital and the administration offices during power failure moments. The generators were handed over by […]
The Government will collaborate closely with the Wangari Maathai Institute (WMI) on programmes that will help Kenya and the region to overcome challenges posed by climate change including conflicts over shrinking natural resources. Speaking Monday at the official opening of the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies at the University of Nairobi’s Upper […]
The state, through the new Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC), is set to build a Sh750 million milk processing plant in Narok County to boost milk productivity and farmers’ income. Cabinet Secretary in Charge of Cooperative and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Simon Chelugui made the announcement Monday in a farmers’ meeting held in a Narok […]
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Development Partners, is working on upgrading the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory. This project aims to transform the facility into a state-of-the-art Biosafety Level three Laboratory (BSL-3), ensuring top-tier safety standards. The BSL-3 will be a high-security containment facility for handling virological and TB multidrug/extremely resistant organisms. Principal Secretary […]
Like many places in Kenya, Nakuru faces challenges from solid waste that clog drains, litter streets and wash into waterways and Lake Nakuru. As the country forges towards managing solid waste disposal, the local community in the sprawling Bondeni slums is steps ahead in the recycling business and is turning discarded plastic bottles and used […]
What lessons has Kenya learnt in its HIV response? A question that is set to feature prominently at the seventh edition of the Maisha scientific conference which kicks off on Tuesday in Mombasa. Dubbed Ending Epidemics: Leadership, People, Science and Partnerships, the forum, organised by the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council, has brought together […]
Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher, who was thrust into the political spotlight as “Joe the Plumber” after questioning Barack Obama about his economic policies during the 2008 presidential campaign, and who later forayed into politics himself, has died, his son said Monday. He was 49. His oldest son, Joey Wurzelbacher, said his father died Sunday in Wisconsin […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Joyce Mema Wanjiru, a mother of five is a distressed woman. She is a victim of the now common attacks in Lamu County blamed on alshabaab militants and which have left a trail of destruction, death and displacement in their wake. On August 21 2023, she was a victim of a gang attack which […]
India’s remarkable space exploration journey continues as the nation’s space agency prepares to launch its first space-based solar observatory, the Aditya-L1, on September 2. This announcement follows closely after India’s historic achievement of landing a spacecraft on the unexplored south pole of the moon. Named after the Hindi word for the sun, the Aditya-L1 probe […]
Former President Donald Trump ambitions for a 2024 White House return are clashing head-on with a web of legal dramas that threaten to engulf his campaign trail. With multiple trials looming on his legal horizon, Trump’s political calendar is teetering on the brink of chaos. A federal judge has slated the trial for his alleged […]
The national team Harambee Stars Coach Engin Firat has named the provisional squad for the two upcoming friendlies against Qatar, the hosts of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, in an away match on September 7, 2023, and South Sudan at home on September 12, 2023. This 25-man squad comprises a formidable mix of both local […]
