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As leaders around the world race to catch up to this disease, policymakers in Kenya have an opportunity to not only respond to the current crisis, but also to invest in health security infrastructure that includes a suite of tools to prevent future
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Source: Business Daily
Wilson to become the official game ball of the NBA | The Crusader Newspaper Group
As of Wednesday, May 13, the Wilson Sporting Goods Company became the official game ball of the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, according to a league press
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Kenya: Fears for Kenya's Urban Food Supply As Floods Drown Rice
Rice is a staple food in Kenya's urban areas, but with floods destroying young crops in recent weeks and imports restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic, stocks may run short
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Source: allAfrica.com
CO2 emissions to drop in 2020
Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are set to drop by up to seven percent in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but even this dramatic decline -- the sharpest since WWII -- would barely dent long-term global warming, researchers reported
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Renewable electricity suppliers gaining ground in South Africa
The total generating capacity of green energy in South Africa is approaching 2.5GW – just less than the average produced by Eskom’s fleet
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Hydrogen to fuel giant mining trucks in green shift by Anglo
Anglo American is advancing plans to convert its fleet of giant diesel-fuelled mine trucks to hydrogen power as the company seeks to burnish its green
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Somalia: Red Cross Fears Coronavirus Spreading Silently in Somalia's Displaced Camps
The new coronavirus could be spreading undetected through camps across Somalia hosting some 2.6 million displaced people, the Red Cross warned on Tuesday, as floods and conflict swelled the numbers fleeing into overcrowded
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Source: allAfrica.com
Kenya coronavirus: 3,727 cases; burial rules relaxed, first family uninfected
Confirmed cases = 3,727
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Djibouti: Kenya, Djibouti Set for Run-Off Vote in Contest for UNSC Membership
Nairobi — Africa will know its third non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2021-2022 after Thursday's run-off vote by the United Nations General Assembly to elect new temporary
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Through the pandemic called racial hate—whose potentially fatal impact is evidenced by the recent deer-hunter style slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, allegedly by three white men while he jogged in a neighborhood in
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Battered brokers offload stake in Nairobi bourse shareholding
The self-listed Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) is battling a crisis of confidence over the continuous decline in stock prices, which has seen close to a half of the stockbrokerage firms that held shares in the Kenyan bourse sell their stake over falling returns and uncertainties over the
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Swiss group offers two-year holiday bonds for Coast hotels
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Dust smothers Trinidad & Tobago
(Trinidad Express) THE Saharan dust plume that crossed the Atlantic Ocean from west Africa is smothering islands in the Caribbean, including Trinidad and
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South Sudan coronavirus: prez writes to, prays for VP, infected comrades
May 18 : South Sudan VP, Defense Minister infected
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LETTERS: How to best address the water challenge
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Rwanda: Sports Ministry Mulls Ambitious Plan to Unearth, Nurture Talent
The Ministry of Sports has said that it is mulling new plans to unearth and nurture sports talent in the
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Ways to lift Kenya from global environmental ranking bottom list
It is, therefore, no surprise that Kenya ranks among bottom 50 countries in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) – a biennial scorecard of countries on a range of sustainability
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S. Africa to ease Covid-19 lockdown
South Africa will ease the Covid-19 lockdown from level four to level three beginning from June 1, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday amid a surge in confirmed
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Kenya Reaches Out to Djibouti After UN Security Council Victory
Nairobi — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reached out to Djibouti following Kenya's victory of the much coveted United Nations Security Council non-permanent seat after a second round of
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Source: allAfrica.com
Uganda: World Tributes Flow in for Legendary Kirunda
Kirunda's far-reaching impact, which shows him as Uganda's most successful captain having led the Cranes to their best ever finish at Afcon finals, where they lost to champions Ghana in 1978, also had the game's most powerful man chip
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Nigeria: What to Consider Before Mass Planting of Trees in Nigeria's Lagos State
Part of the country's response to impacts of climate change is to plant more
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Impossible to hold 2020 polls - Somalia elections boss
Somalia joins the league of country’s that cannot hold elections – not because of the coronavirus as in the case of Ethiopia but because of preparatory challenges, the elections chief has
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ACC concludes investigation into allegation of misappropriation of COVID-19 funds
Following allegations of the stealing of funds meant to cushion the impact of the recent three days lockdown enforced by the government of Sierra Leone last month, May 2020, the Anti-Corruption Commission has published a statement saying it has concluded its investigation into those allegations and
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LETTERS: Why we need 100pc green energy this year
To safeguard the lives of Kenyans and livelihoods from climate crisis effects, in 2018, he announced that Kenya would be moving to 100percent green energy by
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Kenya coronavirus: 1,888 cases, Kericho county records infection
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African Union and Focac Co-Host China-Africa Solidarity Summit On COVID-19
President Cyril Ramaphosa will, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the African Union (AU), participate in a virtual Extraordinary China-Africa Solidarity Summit against Covid-19 co-hosted by the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the
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Cameroon hospitals turn to telemedicine
Some health facilities in Cameroon are turning to telemedicine as patients have been keeping away from and fleeing medical facilities for fear of contracting the coronavirus Covid-19, which has so far killed 313 people in the
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Nobel winner Mukwege quits local DR Congo virus team over problems
Nobel winner Denis Mukwege on Wednesday said he had resigned as head of a coronavirus taskforce in an eastern province of DR Congo, blaming organisational problems, outpaced strategy and slow
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Angola: Stopping COVID-19 From Reaching Family Farmers in Angola
Angola's Institute of Agrarian Development (IDA) is a key partner in the information campaign, including IDA agricultural extension workers who are reaching farmers in their fields and
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Ethiopia agrees to delay filling Nile mega-dam, say Egypt, Sudan
The leaders of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt agreed that Ethiopia will delay filling a mega-dam on the Blue Nile and return to talks aimed at reaching an accord on use of the river's waters, according to statements from Cairo and
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