Can prostitution, the world’s oldest profession, survive the age of social distancing?

By CNN,

Don't kiss. Tell clients to wash their hands before they touch you. Wear a mask. Avoid face-to-face positions. And even: Put on a nurse costume and pu...

COVID-19 , lockdown , prostitution , sex workers , UNAIDS

Unmasking KPL: League where player contracts are flushed down like toilet tissue

By Jacob Icia,

For years, its been suspected that Kenyan Premier League clubs don't honour contracts between them and their employees, the players. However, it remai...

contracts , Geoffrey Kataka , Kenyan Premier League , Philemon Otieno

Kenya COVID Fund gets Ksh.3.7B in donations

By Elphas Lagat,

The COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund Board has received donations totaling Ksh. 3.7billion. Ksh. 3.2billion was received by the committee in cash w...

coronavirus , KAM , karuku , Kenya COVID Fund

Tanzania says coronavirus defeated through prayer, but fears grow

By VOA,

On just one day this month, 50 Tanzanian truck drivers tested positive for the coronavirus after crossing into neighboring Kenya. Back home, their pre...

coronavirus , Tanzania

MCKINSEY: Priorities for school systems in the age of coronavirus

By Guest Writer,

As of mid-April, 191 countries had shut down all their primary and secondary schools, affecting almost 1.6 billion children. The shift to remote le...

coronavirus , online learning

Kalonzo Musyoka gets nod for post-election pact with Jubilee

By Citizen Reporter,

Wiper’s National Executive Council has authorised Kalonzo Musyoka to immediately seal a post-election pact with the ruling Jubilee party. The NEC...

JUBILEE , kalonzo musyoka , KANU

Kenya receives another Ksh.4.6B loan from World Bank for locust invasion response

By Kepha Muiruri,

Kenya has received an addition Ksh.4,6 billion credit facility to address the locust invasion. This comes barely a day after the receipt of a Ksh.1...

Locust invasion , World Bank

NBK lifts KCB quarterly profit to Ksh.6.3 billion

By Kepha Muiruri,

KCB Group’s recent acquisition of the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) made the difference as it marked an 8.6 percent growth in profit for the first qu...

KCB , NBK

Rwanda’s most-wanted genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga appears before French court

By Reuters,

Felicien Kabuga, accused of funding the 1994 Rwandan genocide, appeared before a French court on Wednesday, four days after his arrest following a qua...

Felicien Kabuga , GENOCIDE

ANNAN FOUNDATION: Democracy must not become the silent victim of the coronavirus pandemic

By Guest Writer,

While governments everywhere struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic and do all they can to protect public health, democracy is at risk in many p...

coronavirus , Kofi Annan Foundation , Nane Annan

Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine pills daily despite FDA warning

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a surprise announcement, said on Monday he is taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medicine against the coronavir...

hydroxychloroquine

Taiwan’s success in fighting coronavirus has infuriated China

By CNN,

While many governments struggled to contain the spread of coronavirus, Taiwan appeared to have it largely under control. In January, the self-rule...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , President Tsai Ing-wen , world health organization

‘To have elections when coronavirus is still there… madness,’ Museveni says

By Reuters,

Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni has said it would be wrong to hold a presidential election expected for early next year if the coron...

coronavirus , Museveni

Murkomen loses Ksh.746K in monthly perks, 3 cars and police escort

By Tonny Ndungu,

Former Jubilee senate leaders Senators Kipchumba Murkomen and Susan Kihika will lose several privileges and perks following their Monday ouster. Du...

JUBILEE , KANU , kihika , Murkomen

Men in low-skilled jobs die from coronavirus at higher rate than other workers- study

By CNN,

Men working in low-skilled jobs are dying from coronavirus at a higher rate than those in more highly skilled occupations, new figures from the UK sho...

DP Ruto’s allies Murkomen and Kihika kicked out of Senate leadership

By Tonny Ndungu,

President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee party has kicked out Ruto allies in new changes made to the Jubilee senate. KANU's West Pokot Senator Samuel Pog...

DP Ruto

165 Kenyans who were stranded in China due to Covid-19 pandemic arrive at JKIA

By Citizen Reporter,

165 Kenyans who were stranded in China due to the Covid-19 pandemic have arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. They had left Guangzho...

coronavirus , guangzhou , serem

Italy becomes third country to top 30,000 Covid-19 deaths

By VOA,

Italy on Friday became the third country to record more than 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus, with only Britain and the United States reporting mor...

coronavirus , italy

Bundesliga set to be given green light for restart

By Reuters,

Germany’s Bundesliga is set to be given the green light for a restart, probably from May 15, as part of measures to further ease the country’s cor...

Bundesliga , COVID-19 , FC Bayern Munich , Jerome Boateng

TI-Kenya calls for enhanced transparency, accountability of COVID-19 funds

By Citizen Reporter,

Following the brief on COVID-19 expenditure from the Ministry of Health to the National Assembly, Kenyans have raised concerns on the reported expendi...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , TI-Kenya