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

Countries fall behind in emissions reduction, fighting climate change – UN

By Citizen Reporter,

A United Nations (UN) report assessing efforts made by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change has been released. T...

CLIMATE CHANGE , Synthesis Report , UNFCC , United Nations

US President Joe Biden’s phone call with President Kenyatta

By Benjamin Muriuki,

US President Joe Biden on Thursday made an official call to President Uhuru Kenyatta where he assured his commitment to uphold strong bilateral ties b...

Joe Biden , Uhuru kenyatta

Kenya will remain a strong voice for Africa on the UN Security Council, says Uhuru

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has reiterated Kenya's strong commitment to advancing Africa's agenda at UN Security Council especially on matters of climate...

CLIMATE CHANGE , President Uhuru Kenyatta , UN SECURITY COUNCIL , UNEP

Why businesses must account for the Digital Services Tax

By Kepha Muiruri,

By 2017, about a quarter of the world’s population or about 1.3 billion people at the time had purchased goods online. This is according to data ...

Digital Services Tax , KRA

Italian ambassador to DRC, policeman killed in attack on U.N. convoy

By Reuters,

Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and two other people were killed on Monday in an attack on a United Nations convoy in eastern C...

Italian ambassador , Luca Attanasio

New locust swarms form in northern Somalia

By Citizen Reporter,

New immature locust swarms continue to slowly form from breeding in Puntland, Somalia where hopper bands persist near the coast. According to the F...

locust swarms

Another top Tanzanian gov’t official John William Kijazi dies

By Citizen Reporter,

Tanzania's Chief Secretary of the State John William Kijazi has died. A statement from the government spokesman said Amb. Kijazi died on Wednesday ...

coronavirus , kijazi , magufuli , Tanzania

Ten years on, Libyan revolutionaries live with wounds and unfulfilled dreams

By Reuters,

As revolution swept their region in 2011, three young Libyans joined mass protests against Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade rule. They now live divided...

libya , Muammar Gaddafi , Revolution

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala makes history as first woman, first African WTO head

By Reuters,

Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , World Trade Organization

End of lockdown? UK’s Johnson mulls path out after 15 million vaccinated

By Reuters,

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will this week judge how fast England can exit COVID-19 lockdown but the death toll and hospital admission number...

Boris Johnson

Mukhisa Kituyi declares his 2022 presidential bid in Nairobi

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Immediate Former United Nations Conference on Trade and Development secretary general Mukhisa Kituyi has announced his presidential ambitions in the n...

2022 elections , Mukhisa Kituyi

Britain’s Karim Khan elected International Criminal Court prosecutor

By Reuters,

Parties to the International Criminal Court on Friday elected Britain’s Karim Khan as the new prosecutor for a nine-year term starting on June 16. ...

Fatou Bensouda , Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab , International Criminal Court. , Karim Khan

Covid-19 Vaccine: SHOFCO offers to support gov’t in slum vaccination drive

By Agencies,

Ninety-one-year-old Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination program rol...

SHOFCO

IGAD and EU hand over of PPEs, lab test kits to Kenyan Gov’t

By Citizen Reporter,

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the delegation of the European Union to Kenya and the United Nations Office for Project Service...

coronavirus , IGAD , PPE

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

Western countries have ‘hoarded’ Covid vaccines. Africa is being left behind as cases surge

By CNN,

African nations are being left behind in obtaining Covid-19 vaccines as richer countries stockpile vaccines and prioritize their own populations -- de...

COVID-19

Biden declares ‘America is back’ as he announces major foreign policy shifts

By CNN,

President Joe Biden announced "America is back" on Thursday and declared that "diplomacy is back at the center" of US foreign policy as he said the US...

Joe Biden

Mukhisa Kituyi resigns as UNCTAD Secretary General, sets eyes on presidency in 2022

By Ian Omondi,

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has announced that Secretary General Mukhisa Kituyi will formally step down from his r...

Antonio Guterres , Mukhisa Kituyi , UNCTAD

Tuchel backs Werner to shine again

By Agencies,

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel says out-of-form forward Timo Werner's goal drought is "nothing special" and "happens to every striker in the world". ...