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

BWIRE: Review Statistics Act to facilitate data driven policy making at county level

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire That Kenya still relies on national legal framework on data collection and management while operating a devolved governance structu...

Trump signs coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law after lengthy delay

By CNN,

President Donald Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion dollar coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law Sunday night, averting a govern...

coronavirus

Bus stops, restaurants, gyms, hotels potential COVID-19 ‘superspreader’ places: study

By CNN,

A small minority of places where people go frequently account for a large majority of coronavirus infections in big cities, according to a new modelin...

coronavirus

OPINION: Why affordable housing is a game changer

By Guest Writer,

Home ownership in Kenya has generally been reserved for wealthy individuals with considerable disposable income and for bankers who have access to loa...

Kenya’s intersex persons still pushing for law to allow third gender on ID

By Anthony Ndwiga,

As the world marked Intersex Awareness Day on Monday, Kenya's records of such persons stands at 1,524. Kenya became the first African country to re...

Intersex

President Uhuru Kenyatta lauds the youth for innovation

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended the youth for being at the forefront in technological developments that are set to transform the country throug...

Huduma Namba

Large U.S. COVID-19 vaccine trials will exclude pregnant women for now

By Reuters,

The first two COVID-19 vaccine trials in the U.S. will not be tested in pregnant women this year, raising questions about how this vulnerable populati...

coronavirus , covid-19 vaccine , pregnancy

OPINION: Celebrating the World Youth Skills Day 2020, the hard truths

By Guest Writer,

By Ramakrishnan Hariharan (Ram) The aim of World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) is to recognize the strategic importance of equipping young people with sk...

World Youth Skills Day

BWIRE: Players in education sector should allow for alternative data sources

By Victor Bwire,

For a long time, the issue of allowing alternative ways of generating and collecting data to supplement government convention ways of data collection ...

education , ICAN

More than 360 elephants in Botswana die from mysterious causes

By CNN,

More than 360 elephants in Botswana have died in mysterious causes in the past three months, according to local conservationists. Also Read: Wildli...

Botswana , Elephants

The silent extinction: Less than 100,000 giraffes left in the wild

By Moses Ngugi,

As the World celebrated World Giraffe Day on June 21, 2020, there remains growing concern over the endangered status of the world's tallest animal. ...

giraffe meat , somali girafe , white giraffe

Facebook and Instagram will allow US users to block political ads

By Reuters,

Ahead of what's certain to be a contentious US presidential election, Facebook and Instagram said they will let US users turn off political ads in the...

facebook , instagram

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

Peru seemed to do everything right, so how did it become a Covid-19 hotspot?

By CNN,

Peru was one of the first nations in the Americas to take strict preventative coronavirus measures, like stay-at-home orders, curfews and border closi...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Latin America , Peru , President Jair Bolsonaro , President Martin Vizcarra

‘If you stay in Nairobi, stay there and don’t travel to the village,’ CS Kagwe says

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has advised Nairobi residents against travelling upcountry over the new coronavirus. Speaking...

coronavirus , kagwe

OPINION: Politics of data and everything in between

By Citizen,

Let’s talk data. I have found out that when most of us hear the word ‘data’ our thoughts automatically go to numbers and how boring it is to sit...

census , femnet , SDG

What is social distancing and how does it help in fighting coronavirus?

By CNN,

If, like me, you've been receiving emails from most every organization you're involved with saying that classes, lectures, services, and other planned...

coronavirus , social distancing

Governor Ali Roba in court to challenge 2019 census results for Mandera County

By Dzuya Walter,

Mandera Governor Ali Roba has now filed a case challenging the 2019 census results for the county citing huge variance in published data. According...

Census 2019 , Governor Ali Roba , KNBS , Mandera County.

Atheists blast DP Ruto, accuse him of ‘religious arrogance’

By Citizen Reporter,

Atheists have lashed out over a recent statement by Deputy President William Ruto that they claim discriminates a section of Kenyans. In a hard-hit...

Atheists , ruto