Pangolins in the dock: Is the mammal really guilty as charged?

By Dorcas Wangira,

The pangolin is the world’s most trafficked mammal. No one truly knows its conservation status in Kenya. When COVID-19 broke out in early 2020, some...

coronavirus , pangolin

748 Air Services meets travel agents to shore up valentines’ bookings to the Mara

By Citizen Reporter,

Aviation company 748 Air Services has announced a partnership with travel agents to shore up Valentine’s celebrations bookings to the Maasai Mara Ga...

748 Air Services , Maasai Mara game RESERVE

Kenya to position tea tours as part of tourism offerings

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya is positioning tea tours as part of top tourism experiences that will add to the diversity of tourism products offered by the destination. Bo...

Boinnet , Tea

Kenya crowned world’s leading safari destination

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya has once again been named the World’s Leading Safari Destination by World Travel Awards (WTA), further cementing her position as the global ch...

CS Karoney promises better days for disenfranchised land owners, communities

By Citizen Reporter,

Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney has promised to carry on with on-going reforms in the land sector that will streamline operations and ensure di...

Farida Karoney , Ministry of Lands

High Court stops NEMA from shutting down Mara Ngenche Safari Camp

By Reuben Motochi,

The High Court in Narok has barred the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) from shutting down the Mara Ngenche Safari Camp pending hear...

Maasai Mara National Reserve , Mara Ngenche Safari Camp

#MaraBarricade: Mara Ngenche Camp risks demolition over wildebeest migration

By Sam Gituku,

Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala recently ordered for the removal of a high end tented camp in the Maasai Mara National Reserve say...

Maasai Mara , Mara Ngenche Camp , narok

Tourism CS Najib Balala demands closure of hotel for blocking wildbeest migratory corridor at Mara River

By Tonny Ndungu,

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala on Tuesday demanded action on a tourist camp that has been built beside the Mara River, blocking the Wildebeest...

CS Najib Balala

‘Pack and leave,’ CS Tobiko vows to evict Murkomen from Embobut Forest

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko says Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen is one of the individuals who have illegally encroached E...

Embobut Forest , Keriako Tobiko , Kipchumba Murkomen

DPP orders arrest of Maasai Mara University VC Mary Walingo over Ksh.177M scandal

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has ordered the arrest and prosecution of Maasai Mara University Vice Chancellor Mary Walingo over misapp...

DPP Nordin Haji , mara heist , Masai Mara University

Kenya’s famed wildebeest migration begins without foreign tourist crowds

By Reuters,

Normally, the magnificent plains of the Maasai Mara National Reserve are crowded with international tourists hoping to see a lion hunt during the annu...

coronavirus , Eliud Kipchoge , Maasai Mara , Magical Kenya , Wildebeest Migration

I will be running in London Marathon to give hope- Kipchoge

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge has said he will be competing at the London Marathon in a bid to give hope that the fight against Covid-19...

Eliud Kipchoge , London Marathon

Kenya’s tourist sites are safe, open and ready for visitors, Uhuru says

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed satisfaction with the measures being taken by stakeholders in the hospitality sector to protect tourists from C...

Balala , tourism , Uhuru kenyatta

‘No tourist, no dollar’: Pandemic decimates livelihoods at Maasai Mara

By Reuters,

For more than 50 years, Loiman Letolo, 70, has peddled her colourful beaded necklaces and bracelets to safari-goers at the entrance gates to Kenya’s...

coronavirus , Maasai , Maasai Mara

We’ll be ready to host Safari Rally, expect sports action soon: Amina

By Citizen Team,

Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed says Kenya will be ready to host the Safari Rally next year, while also giving a hint that sports action will ...

Amina Mohamed , Safari Rally , World Championship Rally

Kenya ni marafiki zetu, corona isiwe chanzo cha migogoro,’ Magufuli now says

By Tonny Ndungu,

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has said President Uhuru Kenyatta called him recently with the aim of putting to bed, an escalating border impasse ...

coronavirus

Raila Odinga: BBI will not make Uhuru Prime Minister

By Tonny Ndungu,

ODM leader Raila Odinga has set the record straight on the Building Bridges Initative's (BBI) purported real intentions saying it is not meant to help...

BBI

One person drowns, 10 camps flooded at the Maasai Mara

By Mary Lolchoki,

More than 10 tourist camps have been affected by floods after a river burst its banks at the Maasai Mara in Narok. Some of them include Base Camp, ...

Maasai Mara

Mara Heist three months later: Business as usual?

By Citizen Team,

On September 1 this year, Citizen TV aired one of the most explosive corruption exposés in Kenya: the Mara Heist. It illustrated dark secrets of o...

magak , mara heist , walingo

Mara Heist: What happened to Spencer Sankale?

By Citizen Team,

On September 1 this year, Citizen TV aired Mara Heist, one of most explosive corruption exposes in Kenya. It illustrated the dark secrets of offici...

mara heist , sankale , walingo