‘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

China is installing surveillance cameras outside people’s front doors…and sometimes inside their homes

By CNN,

The morning after Ian Lahiffe returned to Beijing, he found a surveillance camera being mounted on the wall outside his apartment door. Its lens was p...

china , surveillance camera , Weibo

All you should know about Movie Jabber Expo 2019, the ultimate geek marketplace

By Sponsored,

The Movie Jabber Expo 2019 edition (#MJX2019) is shaping up to be the Geek Marketplace for you this year, just in time Christmas shopping. You’re we...

#MJX2019 , Movie Jabber

Activists killed, women raped. Is Sudan revolution still alive?

By CNN,

In front of the military headquarters in Khartoum, workers are rebuilding the pavement. Men in khaki uniforms lounge under trees. Buildings here have...

omar al bashir , protests , Sudan

Masai Ujiri, David Beckham… The Kenyan bracelet goes global

By Ian Omondi,

Kenya, as a country, and her citizens have – in the past years – had a lot of things to be proud about. I mean, the country has produced Oscar ...

Bracelet , David Beckham , kenya , Masai Ujiri

Huawei boss arrives in Canada court for pre-extradition hearing

By Reuters,

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou arrived in a Canadian courtroom on Wednesday to begin what is expected to be a long legal battle against t...

Canada , Huawei

Chinese movie star pleads not guilty to sexual assault in Australia

By Reuters,

Chinese movie actor Gao Yunxiang and a producer pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Friday to charges of sexual assault, setting the course f...

chinese , Gao Yunxiang

Missing 5-year-old girl found brutally murdered in Nakuru

By Robert Maina,

A family in Sokoni village, Subukia, Nakuru County is in mourning following the gruesome murder of their five-year-old girl. The body of the deceas...

Nakuru. , Subukia

Tech firm develops tiny tracker to help fight rhino poaching

By Reuters,

French tech company Sigfox has developed a bite-size tracker that can be inserted into the horns of rhinos to help conservationists monitor and protec...

International Rhino Foundation , Jane Goodall Institute , Marion Moreau , Poaching , Sigfox

Trump expresses openness to using Huawei CFO as bargaining chip in China trade talks

By CNN,

President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration is open to using the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou as a bargaining chip...

Huawei , Huawei CFO

British academic Matthew Hedges jailed for life in UAE for spying

By CNN,

A British academic has been sentenced to life in prison for spying in the United Arab Emirates, according to a family spokeswoman. Matthew Hedges, ...

Matthew Hedges , The United Arab Emirates (UAE) , UAE spying

Kenyan wins Ksh10 million for tracker to help expectant women

By VOA,

A Kenyan university student has won a $100,000 (Ksh.10 million) research grant for an idea aimed at decreasing maternal and infant deaths among cattle...

against maternal deaths , expectant mothers , KENYAN STUDENT , Maternal and child nutrition , maternal deaths , north eastern

Inmates who gave birth in prison released after President’s directive

By Simon Ngure,

It was all smiles for 224 petty offenders at the Nakuru GK Prison after they were released on Friday, October 21 following a President Uhuru Kenyatta ...

North Korea diplomats linked to illegal rhino horn trade in Africa

By Agencies,

North Korean diplomats have been caught smuggling rhinoceros horns from southern Africa in several instances during the past three decades, according ...

North Korea , South Korea

North Korea diplomats linked to illegal rhino horn trade in Africa

By Agencies,

North Korean diplomats have been caught smuggling rhinoceros horns from southern Africa in several instances during the past three decades, according ...

North Korea

WANJURAH: Queers for Sunday Afternoon Company

By Jeeh Wanjura,

I accepted my flat-mate’s invitation to the event mainly as a test of my own tolerance levels and to while away the day. Like with many Kenyans, ...

Gay , homosexuality , queers , wanjurah

Glamour as United’s Schweinsteiger weds tennis star Ivanovic

By Agencies,

Serbian sportswoman Ana Ivanovic swapped her tennis whites for a white ensemble with a little more elegance on Tuesday as she married her footballer b...

Anna Ivanovic , Bastian Schweinsteiger , football , Manchester United , Tennis

WANJURAH: When Elections Are Not a Matter of Life and Death – A Lesson to Kenya from the UK

By Jeeh Wanjura,

 After what I hoped was a well-received presentation at the end of a difficult, anxiety-filled week, I had retreated to my flat hungry for a quick na...

Britain , british elections , elections , IEBC , UK

WANJURAH: Why teachers must be wary of Ababu’s kindness

By Jeeh Wanjura,

You can tell when Ababu Namwamba is bristling with passion for a cause he does not believe in. Although the Budalangi MP is ordinarily well spoken,...

Ababu Namwamba , KNUT , KUPPET , Teacher's strike , Teachers Service Commission

Is Ababu’s discovery of fame ‘making or killing’ him?

By Citizen Reporter,

By Jeeh Wanjurah You can tell when Ababu Namwamba is bristling with passion for a cause he does not believe in. Although the Budalangi MP is ord...

Ababu , Ababu Namwamba , Teacher's strike