Veronica Atieno remembers feeling her way through the dark alleys between the shacks that make up Kenya’s Nairobi slums, picking her way past raw sewage and rusty, razor-sharp metal roofing with trepidation. Her labour pains had crescendoed during Kenya’s coronavirus dusk-to-dawn curfew, and there were no public or private means […]
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The Kenyan Government on Tuesday declared wearing of facemasks by children under two years old is not necessary. Dr Pacifica Onyancha, acting director, Medical Services Preventive and Promotive Health, stated this while speaking on the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation with 4,044 confirmed cases of the virus. She also noted […]
A groovy rendition of “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” blasts from speakers outside an apartment block in the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Children, some in diapers, dance on the balconies above, accompanied by their parents, to the tunes bellowed out by Rev. Paul Machira and a […]
The 95-year-old led the East African country from 1978 to 2002. The former schoolteacher became Kenya’s second president following the death of Jomo Kenyatta.
The Competition Authority of Kenya gave Nigeria’s biggest lender the go-ahead to acquire 93.57% of Transnational Bank Ltd., as consolidation in the East African nation’s banking industry gathers pace. Access Bank Plc’s purchase follows the merger of NIC Group Plc and Commercial Bank of Africa Ltd., and KCB Group Ltd.’s […]
