Third of world’s people get no gov’t aid during COVID-19 pandemic: Oxfam

By Reuters,

More than a third of the world's population - some 2.7 billion people - has not received government aid during the coronavirus pandemic, Oxfam said on...

coronavirus , Oxfam , WELFARE

Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine nearly 90% effective, U.A.E says

By VOA,

One day after Britain became the first Western nation to begin mass COVID-19 vaccinations, the United Arab Emirates says a Chinese-made COVID-19 vacci...

coronavirus , covid-19 vaccine , UAE

OPINION: The seismic economic effects of coronavirus

By Rachel Ombaka,

Every day, the Ministry of Health provides us with COVID-19 statistics detailing new cases and deaths. For many of us this exercise has even become...

coronavirus , Oxfam , social protection

‘Corona ikianza tulikuwa na kazi, lakini sasa hatuna’: Why Albert Otieno and Beatrice Mbendo now depend on social protection

By Rachel Ombaka,

Albert Otieno, 32, lives with his mother, two children and a cousin in Kayole, one of Nairobi County's most densely populated estates. Also Read: T...

coronavirus , Oxfam

OPINION: The unspoken inequality of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Guest Writer,

By Levi Gikandi 243 days ago, on a feverishly hot Wednesday afternoon, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta stood in the manicured State House grounds w...

coronavirus , inequality , inua jamii , Kibera , Oxfam

OPINION: Women facing domestic violence during COVID-19 need access to safety now more than ever

By Guest Writer,

By Christine Ogutu and Wangu Kanja “My husband beat me up and threw me out into the streets in the wee hours of the night with my two children,�...

coronavirus , domestic violence , GBV

OPINION: Speak out your agony

By Sponsored,

By Angelina Cikanda "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last," excerpts from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming." This ...

ACTED , Concern Worldwide , COVID-19 , Impact Initiatives , Oxfam in Kenya , The Kenya Red cross society , WanguKanja Foundation

India records 1 million cases of COVID-19… and it’s the poorest who are hardest hit

By CNN,

India passed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases Friday, after its health ministry reported a record 34,956 new infections in just 24 hours. As...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , India

80,000 vulnerable Kenyans who lost income sources due to COVID-19 set to receive Ksh. 606M from EU

By Citizen Reporter,

80,000 vulnerable Kenyans who lost income sources due to COVID-19 are set to receive Ksh. 606million (€5 million) from the European Union through no...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , EU , Mordue

With inequality rising, does the world really need billionaires?

By VOA,

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of cities around the world demanding action against growing inequality. This as world leaders...

billionaires , inequality

Royal Media Services among top 100 best companies to work for in Kenya

By Ian Omondi,

Royal Media Services (RMS) is one of the best companies to work for in Kenya, according to a new report released on Wednesday by Brighter Monday. T...

brighter monday , Royal Media Services , Safaricom

Girl, 9, mother to be repatriated from Uganda to DRC over Ebola

By Muia Joseph,

Uganda has reported a new case case of Ebola in Kasese, two months after three other incidents were reported in the same region. According to the C...

ebola

Act now to avert disaster in drought-hit East Africa, aid agencies say

By Reuters,

East Africa could suffer a repeat of a 2011 famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people unless foreign donors stump up funds to help drought-hi...

drought and famine , East Africa Community , United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)

The top 26 billionaires own as much as 3.8 billion other people

By CNN,

The world's billionaires are growing $2.5 billion richer every day, while the poorest half of the global population is seeing its net worth dwindle. ...

bill gates , billionaires , Jeff Bezos , Mark Zuckerberg , Oxfam International report , Warren Buffett , World Economic Forum

Gunfire, threats and curfews slow Congo’s fight against Ebola

By Reuters,

When medics tried to reach Ebola patients in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during a recent surge in violence, they were blocked by...

Congo , ebola , Jessica Llunga , unicef , who

Pope says world must not turn a blind eye to migrants, the poor

By Reuters,

Pope Francis criticized rising wealth inequality and the treatment of migrants on Sunday, saying the world should not ignore those “tossed by the wa...

migrants , Pope Francis , World Day of the Poor

Sexual abuse ‘endemic’ in international aid sector, damning report finds

By CNN,

Sexual abuse of vulnerable women and girls by international aid workers is "endemic" and has been happening for years, with perpetrators easily moving...

UK supermarket squeeze on suppliers fuels poverty and abuse

By Reuters,

Millions of farmers and factory workers worldwide who produce food for Britain’s leading supermarkets are exploited and struggle to feed their famil...

British Retail Consortium , Ethical Trading Initiative , farmers , Oxfam , poverty , retail , supermarkets , suppliers , UK

Kenya’s ‘budget for the rich’ pushes poor to the brink

By Reuters,

A few metres from Kenya’s Parliament where the Treasury CS read his budget, Deborah Mwandagina, deputy principal of a school in Mukuru Slum, is unim...

2018/2019 budget , Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich

BWIRE: Is government’s new 2018 tax reforms enough to help poor Kenyans?

By Victor Bwire,

The Government has introduced new tax bands effective January 2018, in an effort to cushion Kenyans against harsh economic realities through reducing ...

2018 tax reforms , Betting tax , Commissioner of Domestics Taxes , corporate income tax , Fear rises as KRA increases taxes of cargo in Mombasa