Jane Marriott: Decision to add Kenya to UK ‘red list’ based on science

By Guest Writer,

By Jane Marriott, British High Commissioner to Kenya The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for over a year now. The damage has been immense: live...

coronavirus , Red list , UK

My life with COVID: Ferdinand Mayiwa on losing his sense of hearing, smell, balance and taste

By Dorcas Wangira,

Ferdinand Mayiwa, 53,  a father of five and a Medical Social Psychologist has grown accustomed to the sound of silence. He lost his sense of hearing...

coronavirus

‘I’m glad to be back home from hospital’ Raila says

By Tonny Ndungu,

ODM leader Raila Odinga has been discharged from the Nairobi Hospital, days after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The former Prime Min...

coronavirus , raila

ODM leader Raila Odinga tests positive for COVID-19

By Citizen Reporter,

ODM leader Raila Odinga has tested positive for COVID-19, a statement from his doctor revealed on Thursday night. Consultant neurosurgeon David Olu...

coronavirus , raila odinga

High Bt maize yields impress Kenyan farmers

By Guest Writer,

By Verenardo Meeme Kenyan farmers, impressed by the high yields realized in GMO open field trials, are urging the government to speed up the proces...

Bt Maize

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

Health CS Kagwe urges counties to be on high alert over new COVID-19 variant

By Ian Omondi,

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has called on border counties to heighten surveillance to prevent new COVID-19 strains from entering the country...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe

WHO Africa encourages use of AstraZeneca vaccine despite variants

By CNN,

The World Health Organization (WHO) African region has backed the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 even in countries reporting v...

AstraZeneca , coronavirus , vaccine

Kenya, U.K. to co-host global education financing conference: Uhuru

By PSCU,

Kenya and the United Kingdom will co-host a two-day conference on global partnership for education financing on July 25 and 26, President Uhuru Kenyat...

education financing

COVID-19: Most Kenyans don’t welcome anal swab

By Dorcas Wangira,

Testing for COVID-19 has become part of our new normal. With the PCR test, one has to have both the oral and nasal-pharyngeal swabs taken for testing....

coronavirus

Kenyan scientists discover new coronavirus mutation

By VOA,

Kenyan scientists have raised an alarm on a coronavirus variant they say differs from the one spreading in South Africa and Britain. Also Read: Sou...

coronavirus , mutation

JAMILA’S MEMO: Ultimate responsibility for PPEs lies with CS Kagwe

By Jamila Mohamed,

When COVID-19 hit our shores in March 2020, there were simple things scientists around the world shared as the recommended responses to stopping the s...

KEMSA , PPEs

Uhuru urges young Kenyan scientists to push country to global stardom

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged young Kenyan scientists to expend their energies wisely and remain focused so as to come up with cutting edge innov...

Kenyan scientists , Uhuru

Kenyan farmers and young guides enlisted to protect city forests

By Reuters,

Peter Wainana remembers when the forest near his home outside Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, was so thick with trees and vegetation it was difficult to w...

forestry , Kenya Forest Service , logging , trees

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe under fire after casting doubt on new COVID-19 vaccine

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has raised doubt about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The ...

covid-19 vaccine , mutahi kagwe

South Africa’s smallholder farmer journey growing GM maize

By Guest Writer,

By: Verenardo Meeme Sixty-four-year-old Motlatsi Musi, from South Western Townships (SOWETO), has been farming since he was 12 in a venture that ha...

COVID-19: Why you shouldn’t self-medicate using dexamethasone

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenyans have been warned against self-medication and stockpiling dexamethasone or any other drug suggested as a cure for COVID-19. The Pharmacy and...

coronavirus , Dexamethasone

400 families from Budalangi forced to live in primary school since April

By Reuters,

About 400 families from Budalangi, Busia County have been living at Bubango Primary School since April. This after Nzoia River that flows from the ...

Budalangi , floods

ODM leader Raila Odinga takes COVID-19 test

By Ian Omondi,

Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga on Sunday took the COVID-19 test at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Mbagath...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , KEMRI , Mbagathi , raila odinga

Elders in Embu ask President Uhuru to sanction research into herbal coronavirus cure

By Anthony Ndwiga,

Embu County Council of elders has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to sanction medical experts and scientist for research in rural Kenyan to find herbs ...

coronavirus , embu