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KEBS bank accounts frozen over Ksh.2 billion debt
By Citizen Reporter,
1302, January 18, 2021 (EAT)
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) is embroiled in a fierce battle with the judiciary over a KSh.2 billion debt that has seen all its accounts froze...
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DP Ruto labels ODM as ‘lords of corruption’ over KEMSA remarks
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1640, August 23, 2020 (EAT)
Deputy President William Ruto has launched a scathing attack at the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), accusing the party of attempting to defend corru...
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Russia reports 10,102 new coronavirus cases
By Agencies,
1129, May 5, 2020 (EAT)
The number of new coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 10,102 over the past 24 hours, compared with 10,581 the previous day. This brought Russi...
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Coronavirus pandemic will cause global famines of ‘biblical proportions,’ UN warns
By CNN,
1704, April 22, 2020 (EAT)
The world is facing multiple famines of "biblical proportions" in just a matter of months, the UN has said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic will...
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Covid-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans – U.N. agency
By Reuters,
1144, April 18, 2020 (EAT)
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the U.N. Economic Commission for A...
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Why coronavirus is making people hoard illegal drugs
By CNN,
1034, April 5, 2020 (EAT)
It's not just toilet roll that people are panic buying. Some illegal drug users are reportedly stockpiling their substance of choice as restrictio...
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Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation – FAO
By Reuters,
1018, March 22, 2020 (EAT)
Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grain...
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Why oil prices are crashing and what it means
By CNN,
1107, March 10, 2020 (EAT)
Oil prices have suffered their biggest fall since the day in 1991 when American forces launched air strikes on Iraqi troops following their invasion o...
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Coronavirus could cost Trump the election, Goldman Sachs warns
By CNN,
1720, February 28, 2020 (EAT)
A market meltdown. Surging recession fears. And a sudden spotlight on America's health care system. Goldman Sachs is warning Wall Street that the c...
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Coronavirus spreads faster outside China, stoking global fears
By CNN,
838, February 27, 2020 (EAT)
The number of new coronavirus infections inside China - the source of the outbreak - was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere on Wedn...
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Kenya shuts slaughterhouses over loss of donkeys to Chinese who use skins for anti-ageing medicine
By Reuters,
1138, February 26, 2020 (EAT)
Agriculture CS Peter Munya has ordered donkey slaughterhouses to be shut down as concerns rise over the theft of the animals by gangs seeking their sk...
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Coronavirus death toll rises to 106 as first Beijing patient dies
By CNN,
953, January 28, 2020 (EAT)
The new strain of coronavirus spreading across China claimed its first victim in Beijing, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to 106....
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Huge crowds in Iran for Soleimani funeral as new commander promises revenge
By Reuters,
1643, January 6, 2020 (EAT)
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians thronged Tehran’s streets on Monday for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by a U.S. drone...
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Iran vows ‘harsh revenge’ against U.S. for killing top general Soleimani
By Agencies,
1747, January 3, 2020 (EAT)
Iran has threatened to retaliate after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force and arch...
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2.6M Kenyans face starvation as counties experiencing drought rises to 24
By Sam Gituku,
1116, September 21, 2019 (EAT)
The government needs at least Ksh.3.7 billion between now and December to mitigate effects of an ongoing drought that is affecting more than half of t...
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Nigeria’s president moves to stop funding for food imports
By CNN,
1120, August 15, 2019 (EAT)
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the country's central bank to stop providing foreign currency for food imports, according to a sta...
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Change food production and stop abusing land, major climate report warns
By CNN,
1451, August 8, 2019 (EAT)
Humans have damaged around a quarter of ice-free land on Earth, United Nations scientists warned in a major report Thursday, stressing that further de...
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The wildcat gold miners who get rich sick in Ghana
By Reuters,
1403, July 25, 2019 (EAT)
A few years after coming as a teenager to this town in Ghana to prospect for gold, Yaw Ngoha had made enough cash to marry his sweetheart and build a ...
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Empty nets as overfishing and climate change sap Lake Malawi
By VOA,
952, July 23, 2019 (EAT)
On the shores of Lake Malawi, a crowd eagerly awaits the arrival of a white and yellow cedar wood boat carrying its haul. The crew of six deliver a...
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Trump says Iran ‘made a very big mistake’ by shooting down drone
By Reuters,
2040, June 20, 2019 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said Iran made “a very big mistake” by shooting down a U.S. military drone that Tehran said was on a spy m...
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