Action urged on teenage pregnancy and HIV as new report reveals high rates in Homa Bay

By Citizen Reporter,

Gender inequality, difficulties in accessing services and poverty are fuelling high rates of unintended pregnancies and HIV in Homa Bay, Western Kenya...

HIV

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

Africa’s leaders forced to confront healthcare systems they neglected for years

By CNN,

Africa's ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own co...

Africa health care

Report: Africa Delivers Largest Profits on Investment

By CNN,

British companies have made bigger profits investing in Africa than in any other region of the world, according to a new report from the Overseas Deve...

Overseas Development Institute

China,United States face off in Djibouti as world powers fight for influence in Africa

By CNN,

A dirt track at Djibouti's Doraleh Port leads to a series of unassuming single-story buildings that, earlier this year, hosted the world's two superpo...

china , Djibouti , Red Sea , US

UN reaches ‘remarkable’ but vague ‘milestone’ in anti-slavery fight

By VOA,

Anti-slavery activists on Tuesday hailed a United Nations global pact on migrants as a potential milestone in the fight against human trafficking but ...

anti-slavery activists , United Nations

Kenya’s UK export slack opens door to regional rivals

By Kepha Muiruri,

Kenya’s exports to the United Kingdom (UK) declined in value by 20 percent between 2009 and 2016 pointing to the country’s diminishing export edge...

Chris Kiptoo , Coffee , Department for International Development , DfID , export , flowers , kenya , ODI , Trade , UK

North Korea Celebrates Nuclear Scientists at Celebration Bash

By AFP,

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a massive celebration to congratulate his nuclear scientists and technicians who steered the country's sixth an...

MISSILE TEST , North Korea , North Korea fires three ballistic missiles , North Korean leader Kim Jong Un , Pyongyang

Islamic finance provides Kenyans with cushion against drought

By Reuters,

Hamara Hujale tries to keep an eye on two squirming children and a pot of simmering ugali – a white doughy dish – as she reaches for her buzzing p...

Department for International Development , Drought , Islamic Finance , Overseas Development Institute , pastoralist community , rural kenya , sacco , savings

Measles Can be Deadly, But is Preventable

By VOA,

More than 75 people, mostly young children, have gotten measles in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Nearly all were unvaccinated. Measles is one of the...

church reaction to the Measles campaign , Measles and Rubella vaccination , measles vaccination , Ministry closes down a catholic school that rejected Measles-Rubella vaccination

Liberia investigates death of celebrated Ebola fighter amid stigma fears

By Reuters,

The death from childbirth of a woman named Time magazine "Person of the Year" in 2014 for her work fighting Ebola in Liberia is being investigated aft...

Look beyond hotspots to help people weather climate shocks – study

By Agencies,

Targeting money only at areas hit by drought and other climate extremes in an effort to build resilience among the world's poorest may be ineffective,...

africa , climate , CLIMATE CHANGE , world

Kenya best environment for insurance business – study

By Citizen,

Kenya has the best environment for the growth of insurance business in sub-Saharan Africa. This is according to a study launched by Prudential Afri...

business , financial business , INSURANCE

UN climate deal must unlock private funding for forests – experts

By Agencies,

A new global deal to curb climate change due in Paris next month must "switch on" forest protection schemes by allowing the carbon credits they produc...

carbon credits , CLIMATE CHANGE , forests , GLOBAL WARMING , United Nations