Reasons behind Bitcoins’ meteoric rise

By Agencies,

Over the past year, cryptocurrency has progressed from obscurity to prominence throughout the financial world. Bitcoin has soared in value in the last...

Edith Kamaru Kwobah, girl from Ndeiya who dressed bodies to get money for medical school

By Guest Writer,

By Dr. Susan Adongo Her first shift was on a Thursday night. “I wasn’t sure what to wear,” Edith Kamaru told me. But it didn’t matter becau...

edith kamaru

KNH suspends planned surgeries due acute shortage of medical oxygen

By Citizen Reporter,

The country's largest referral facility, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has been forced to scale down on surgeries due to an acute shortage of oxyge...

Kenyatta National Hospital , Medical Oxygen

Man who was tortured with burning mosquito net records statement

By Francis Mtalaki,

A day after Swabir Mohammed was arrested and charged at a Mombasa court, Evans Odhiambo, the man he allegedly tortured using a burning mosquito net, c...

Mombasa County. , Swabir Mohammed , torture

Kenya Power suspends plans to raise cost of electricity

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya Power has abandoned the quest to raise its electricity tariff to customers offering a relief to consumers who had opposed the plans According t...

Kenya Power profit

Africa Check, Google.org partner to fight false information using AI

By Citizen Reporter,

Fact-checking organisations Africa Check, Full Fact and Chequeado received a $2million (Ksh. 218,700,000) grant alongside seven Google.org Fellows who...

africa check , ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE , misinformation

Uhuru orders review of power purchase agreements as losses mount

By Reuters,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has set up a team to review power purchase agreements signed over the years by Kenya Power which has been making losses in th...

Electricity , KENYA POWER

Two Kenya Power employees arrested for extorting money from customer in Utawala

By Citizen Reporter,

Two Kenya Power employees were Friday arrested for obtaining Ksh.30,000 from a customer in Utawala with a promise to reconnect an illegal 3 phase powe...

KENYA POWER

One on one with Kenya’s first ever COVID-19 patient Brenda Cherotich

By Victoria Rubadiri,

On April 1st, 2020 a face was put to what had been an invisible disease with Kenyans getting  introduced to the first COVID-19 patient. Her name was ...

Brenda , coronavirus

Is it worthy investing in Bitcoin?

By Citizen Reporter,

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, praised by supporters as a market-disrupting revolution and demonized by opponents as a sinister, unpredictable in...

Digital taxi app Bolt adds electric vehicles to fleet

By Kepha Muiruri,

Rides hailing company Bolt has added hybrid and electric vehicles to its fleet as the firm moves to align operations to climate-friendly policies. ...

Bolt , electric vehicles

China’s fleet now larger than US Navy

By CNN,

In 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping donned military fatigues and boarded a People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer in the South China Sea. Spread...

china

‘Believe in the power of technology,’ says Huawei’s Catherine Chen

By Agencies,

Technology holds significant benefits for humanity, and digital technology can be an indispensable tool for helping the United Nations achieve its Sus...

Huawei

Rising e-waste crisis is being reckoned with in Rwanda, one gadget at a time

By CNN,

For Eric Nshimiyimanain, who owns two small electronic repair shops in Kigali, Rwanda, the startup chime of an old Windows laptop is the sound of a bu...

e-waste , Rwanda

UNEP rolls out electric bikes project in Nairobi’s Karura forest

By Citizen Reporter,

49 motorcycles made little noise but raised much interest in Nairobi’s Karura Forest on Tuesday morning, as the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) laun...

electric bikes , UNEP

Data is key to closing gender gaps in energy access in Kenya: AfDB

By Citizen Reporter,

Gender-specific data, especially detailed information on how women and men use financial resources, is needed to improve interventions geared to closi...

AfDB , energy access , Energy and Mineral Development Minister Irene Muloni

Schneider Electric launches made-in-Kenya Prisma iPM switchboard

By Citizen Reporter,

Schneider Electric is supporting the national 'Buy Kenya, Build Kenya' initiative by announcing the launch of locally-manufactured Prisma iPM electric...

Schneider Electric

Kenya Power on the spot after giraffes electrocuted to death

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya Power has come under fire after two giraffes were electrocuted to death at Soysambu Conservancy in Nakuru over the weekend. Also Read: Endang...

Giraffes , Soysambu

Global data centre market size poised to hit USD 200 billion by 2021

By Agencies,

Data centers are the heart of our online world. They store the data and increasingly they host the applications that we use to work, shop, bank, and e...

Waiguru launches two markets along the upcoming Kenol-Sagana-Marua dual carriage

By Citizen Reporter,

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru on Thursday launched two markets along the upcoming Kenol-Sagana- Marua dual carriage. The two markets -- Kibingoti...

ANNE WAIGURU , Kirinyaga