The world’s most powerful passports for 2021

By CNN,

The gap in travel freedom is its biggest in decades and disparities in vaccination access between countries could make the situation even worse, says ...

Henley & Partners , Henley Passport Index

The dire effects of Covid-19 on Kenya’s sports journalists

By Isaac Swila,

SPECIAL REPORT      Isaac Swila Under normal circumstances, Jacob Icia, Gilbert Kiprotich, Ernest Mkalla, Geoffrey Mwamburi, Godfrey Ashiali, Luqm...

Coronavirus impact , COVID-19 , Effects on sports journalists , kenya , RMS , Sports Journalim

In 1911, another epidemic swept through China. That time, the world came together

By CNN,

In 1911, a deadly epidemic spread through China and threatened to become a pandemic. Its origins appeared to be related to the trade in wild animals, ...

china , Lockdowns , Quarantine , The Great Manchurian Plague , who

OPINION: Lessons from South Korea on COVID-19 pandemic response

By Citizen Reporter,

By Ondari D. Mogeni As COVID-19 spreads across the world, South Korea is one of the countries that was not spared from exposure in the early stages...

coronavirus

Tanzania, Sudan, Nigeria on U.S. travel ban list

By CNN,

The Trump administration on Friday announced an expansion of the travel ban -- one of the President's signature policies, which has been derided by cr...

Tanzania , Travel ban , Trump

New Trump law restricts pregnant foreigners from traveling to U.S.

By CNN,

The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday to make it more difficult for foreign nationals to travel to give birth on US soil. Thi...

'birth tourism' , Trump

11 illegal Chinese migrants busted hiding in washing machine, furniture

By Duncan Mutwiri,

11 Chinese migrants who were being smuggled into the U.S. were found hidden inside furniture and home appliances. America's Custom and Border Prote...

Chinese migrants

BWIRE: Why Kenya needs MIL policy yesterday

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Information including media content regulation in Kenya is as problematic as in the rest of the world, given the rapidly expanding ...

Media and information literacy (MIL)

Rare polka dot zebra ‘Tira’ leaves Kenya for Tanzania

By Citizen Reporter,

A rare polka dotted Zebra named Tira that had been spotted in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve has left Kenya for Tanzania. Also Read: Rare black leopa...

Maasai Mara game RESERVE , polka dot zebra , Tira

Mexican officials find 51 migrants in truck using giant X-ray scanner

By VOA,

Mexican officials using a large X-ray scanner at a checkpoint in the central state of Zacatecas found 51 Central American migrants in hidden compartme...

immigrants , Mexico , National Migration Institute

Central American migrants plead to seek asylum in U.S., not Mexico

By Reuters,

Several Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States were allowed to return there on Thursday after being forced to wait in one of Me...

asylum , Mexico , Pilgrims , South American migrants , U.S

6yr old dies after crossing US-Mexico border, more Indians making that journey

By CNN,

On the day she died, the little girl was thousands of miles away from the country where she was born. US Border Patrol agents found her remains thi...

6-year-old from India died , after crossing the US-Mexico border

Cuban migrants escape detention in Mexico

By VOA,

At least 1,300 mainly Cuban migrants fled on foot from an immigration detention center on Mexico’s southern border Thursday in the largest mass esca...

Cuban migrants , Mexico

Mexico sends home more migrants as Trump ramps up pressure

By Reuters,

Mexico has returned 15,000 migrants in the past 30 days, a senior government official said on Tuesday, pointing to an uptick in deportations in the fa...

State of the Nation Address: President Uhuru Kenyatta’s full speech

By Benjamin Muriuki,

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thurday said the State of the Nation is "strong, vibrant and beaming with promise." Here is his full speech during this...

State of the nation address

Why ISIS is easier for big tech to fight than white supremacy

By CNN,

Social media networks are facing a reckoning for their role in spreading far-right terrorist propaganda, after a deadly attack on a New Zealand mosqu...

ISIS , social media , white supremacy

Kenyans fault Huduma Namba plan over Mastercard links

By Allan Irungu,

A section of Kenyan lawyers are questioning the Government's motive behind the newly launched Huduma Namba exercise. According to them, data on Ken...

Huduma Namba , National Integrated Identity Management System , NIIMS

U.S. sends first families to Mexico to await asylum, rights groups sue

By Reuters,

The United States began sending Central American families seeking asylum back to Mexico this week, a Mexican immigration source said on Thursday, whil...

asylum , Mexico , U.S

Mexico won’t accept minors awaiting U.S asylum claims

By VOA,

The head of Mexico's immigration agency said Monday that his country won't accept migrants younger than 18 while they await the resolution of their U....

Mexico , migrants , United States , US Asylums

Nearly 1,000 Central American migrants in new caravans enter Mexico

By Reuters,

Almost 1,000 Central American migrants entered southern Mexico on Thursday in a test of the new government’s pledge to manage an ongoing exodus fuel...

Central American migrants , Mexico