Covid-19 is challenging Kenya to keep development promise

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Covid-19 is challenging Kenya to keep development promise

UNDP Resident Representative Walid Badawi spoke to the Business Daily about his baptism of fire overseeing the implementation of the organisation’s programmes and projects.

Source: Business Daily

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Source: Business Daily

In midst of pandemic, east Africa braces for another locust invasion

East Africa is bracing for a third outbreak of desert locusts, with billions of the destructive insects about to hatch and threaten food supplies in a region already reeling from damaging rains and the coronavirus

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Kenya: Transporters Want Mandatory Use of Railway Rule Quashed

Transporters want Cabinet Secretary James Macharia, the Kenya Ports Authority and the Kenya Railways restrained from forcing cargo owners to use the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) or the old

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya Extends Restaurants Operating Hours to 7.30pm

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the decision was arrived at following an assessment of compliance levels by the restaurants for the COVID-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: China, Africa Issue Joint Statement On Solidarity

The Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against Covid-19 is a joint initiative between the People's Republic of China, the Republic of South Africa in its capacity as the Chair of the African Union (AU), and the Republic of Senegal in its capacity as the Co-Chair of the Forum on

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Source: allAfrica.com

LGBTQI refugees facing persecution in Kenya

Martin Okello, 29, fled to Kenya from his native Uganda to seek asylum and protection under the UN refugee

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Covid-19: Kenya cases rise to 4,952

Kenya has recorded 155 positive coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally of confirmed cases to

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Source: The East African

EDITORIAL: Move to impose VAT on cooking gas wrong

EDITORIAL: Move to impose VAT on cooking gas wrong

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Source: Business Daily

State stops Tuskys directors pay, new branches in Sh1.2bn debt

CAK now wants Tuskys to focus on settling its current obligations, with the company’s default resulting in cashflow challenges for suppliers and consumers missing essential goods on the

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Source: Business Daily

OIMEKE: Fuel marking and monitoring have curbed adulteration

Fuel marking and monitoring have curbed adulteration

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Source: Business Daily

Bar operators put coronavirus lockdown losses at Sh1bn

Bar operators put coronavirus lockdown losses at Sh1 billion

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Source: Business Daily

Coronavirus in Africa: 306,390 cases; 8,116 deaths; 146,337 recoveries

There are now more than over 300,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Africa's top virus deaths: Veteran Congolese photo-journalist 'shutters'

While each death is reported with a sombre mood and with condolences to affected families, some of the casualties have united a country in grief, in other cases united the continent and people beyond

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Sheila Sealy Monteith, Jamaica's ambassador to Belgium and permanent representative to the European Union — who also has accreditation to France, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain — confirmed to the Jamaica Observer that plans are far advanced to have a charter flight leave

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

EDITORIAL: Intensify war on poachers

EDITORIAL: Intensify war on poachers

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Source: Business Daily

Coronavirus in Africa: 297,112 cases; 7,919 deaths; 142,622 recoveries

There are now more than over 290,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Kenya: Chinedu Disowns One Time Lover Akinyi Following Her Latest Troubles

Anthony Chinedu, the Nigerian businessman who was deported from Kenya in 2013, has denied any links to Joyce Akinyi, the controversial Kenyan businesswoman who was his one time

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Source: allAfrica.com

Yatani faces Sh9bn hole after cooking gas, plane tax scrap

Yatani faces Sh9bn hole after cooking gas, plane tax scrap

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Source: Business Daily

Kenya Beats Djibouti for the UN Seat

UN Member States chose the country in a second round of voting on Thursday in the General Assembly, with 192 ambassadors casting their ballots during pre-determined time slots, due to the COVID-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Fintech MamaPrime eyes Sanofi partnership

Fintech MamaPrime eyes Sanofi partnership

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Source: Business Daily

Britam offers patients mobile phone treatment service

Britam offers patients mobile phone treatment service

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Source: Business Daily

NJUKI: Refugees’ skills count, too, in economies of host

Programmes in training and skills development were availed to refugees without a clear integration into the local labour market realities or the same opportunity availed to host

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Source: The East African

East Africa: Kenya Wins UN Security Council Seat

Kenya has won the UN Security Council seat after beating Djibouti in second round of voting

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya’s mobile uptake leads region’s at 62pc

The statistic, which weeds out the impact of multiple SIM cards ownership in assessing mobile penetration, has been published by Airtel Africa, which operates in Kenya and other regional

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Source: Business Daily

MBUGUA: Inequality is a big knee on the necks of Kenya’s poor

Inequality is a big knee on the necks of Kenya’s poor

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Source: Business Daily

High liquidity seen holding policy rate

High liquidity seen holding policy rate

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Source: Business Daily

MUNGAI: Bridging gap in varsity learning, skills demand

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Source: Business Daily

Kenya Wins UN Security Council Seat by 2 Votes

Kenya narrowly won an election for a non-permanent United Nations Security Council seat Thursday, in a vote impacted by the COVID-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: UN Security Council Elections Reveal Divisions in Africa

You can't have Africa Free Trade and not have a politically stable continent, which is why it was important for South Africa to ensure it got support for Kenya at the Security

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda: Cover Story - Tough Budget

"Money consuming government agencies and departments/arms (like Parliament and others) have continued to receive lots of money than production facilitating MDAs - which are critical in creating jobs and related opportunities," says Ramathan Ggoobi, the senior economics lecturer at Makerere

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Source: allAfrica.com

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