From refugee in Kenya to U.S. representative: Oballa Oballa’s long trek to election day

By VOA,

Oballa Oballa’s trek to election day was a long and improbable one. He grew up in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, where he witnessed mass killin...

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Heroine and bhang concealed in buttons of dresses, kitenge cloth intercepted at JKIA

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya Revenue Authority officers have intercepted concealed heroine and bhang that were being smuggled through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airpor...

heroine , KRA

President Kenyatta commends KDF for role in infrastructure development

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) for its role in the renewal of key infrastructure projects across the country. ...

KDF , President Uhuru Kenyatta

NACADA partners with KPA to fight drug abuse in the Coast

By Citizen Reporter,

The fight against drug and alcohol abuse in the Coast region has received a boost after Kenya Ports Authority donated Ksh.1 million to the Miritini Re...

KPA , NACADA

Jack Ma, an unlikely hero in the time of coronavirus

By Ian Omondi,

The first coronavirus case in the world, as reported by multiple international media outlets, was recorded in Wuhan, China as far back as November las...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe , Jack Ma

Jumia donates 100,000 masks to support coronavirus fight in Kenya

By Citizen Reporter,

Leading e-Commerce platform Jumia has donated 100,000 masks to the Ministry of Health to support community health workers, who are on the front line r...

JUmia

EDITORIAL: We stand with Kenya

By Citizen,

Kenya faces the biggest fight in its post-independence existence: the lives of its citizens are on the line, its economy is threatened, its culture an...

Five-year-old pulls sister and dog out of house fire

By CNN,

A five-year-old Georgia boy awoke to flames in the bedroom. But he didn't panic, and his actions helped save his entire family. Noah Woods is being...

3000Litres of beer for thirsty town: Australian navy talk of the town

By CNN,

A looming beer crisis has been avoided in a fire-stricken Australian town, thanks to some help from the country's navy. Mallacoota, a small coastal...

Australian navy

President Kenyatta mourns freedom fighter Achieng’ Oneko’s wife

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of condolence and encouragement to the family, relatives and friends of the late Loice Anyango, wife to th...

Achieng Oneko , Mama Loice Anyango

National heroes are entitled to these benefits and privileges

By Citizen Reporter,

Mashujaa Day celebrations on Sunday - October 20, 2019 - was all about heroes and commemorating their invaluable contributions to the country. Apar...

Mashujaa day , National Heroes

Uhuru: Bob Collymore’s death has robbed Kenya part of its ‘soul’

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday eulogized deceased Safaricom Chief Executive Officer Robert ‘Bob’ William Collymore as a special friend who h...

Bob Collymore , Michael Joseph , PETER KENNETH , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Safaricom

Ugandan medics tackling Ebola say they lack supplies

By VOA,

The isolation ward for Ebola patients is a tent erected in the garden of the local hospital. Gloves are given out sparingly to health workers. And whe...

Bwera Hospital , Congo , ebola , uganda

Kenya’s Jeneria Lekilelei guns for Ksh.2M Tusk award

By Wambui Kihara,

Jeneria Lekilelei has been shortlisted for the Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa. He was nominated for his work with Ewaso Lions, a non-profit ...

Jeneria Lekilelei , Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa

Teacher Tabichi: How I will spend Ksh.100M Prize money

By Ian Omondi,

Kenyan teacher Peter Mokaya Tabichi has become a national hero after recently bagging the 2019 Global Teacher Prize that brought with it $1 million (...

Global Teacher Prize , Jeff Koinange Live , Peter Mokaya Tabichi

Prince Charles becomes first British royal to visit Cuba

By Reuters,

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla landed in Havana on Sunday for the first official trip by the British royal family to Communist-run Cuba even as B...

cuba , Prince Charles

S. Sudan ‘superhero’ wins award for work with children born of rape

By VOA,

Children born of rape in South Sudan's civil war must be integrated into their families and communities to ensure lasting peace in the country, aid wo...

Bond Humanitarian Award , Christine Ngbaazande , south sudan

Philadelphia mulls supervised injections to cut drug deaths

By VOA,

For nearly two decades, Vancouver, the epicenter of Canada's increasingly deadly drug epidemic, has embraced an initiative that was once dismissed as ...

Philadelphia.

From wacky to well meaning, 7 upbeat stories of improving lives in 2018

By Reuters,

From an auto-repair shop in Uganda jumpstarting child soldiers into new lives to the boxing Barbie doll championing women’s rights, the past year sa...

British Virgin Islands , Gandhi Nagar , Gandhi Nagar railway station , HURRICANE IRMA , Louis Lakor , Nicola Adams , Quito Rimer , Toymaker Mattel

Shut down trophy markets, says Margaret Kenyatta as she fetes wildlife conservation heroes

By Citizen Reporter,

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta on Sunday called for shutting down of all wildlife trophy markets in the world because they fuel poaching of precious spe...