Stakeholders launch Ksh.95B project to boost Africa’s coffee industry

By Agencies,

The Inter African Coffee Organisation (IACO) has joined forces with the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) and the Internatio...

Twiga Foods raises Ksh.3.1 billion with boost from Goldman Sachs

By Imani Mitchelle,

Twiga Foods, a Kenyan food distribution start-up, has raised $30 million (Ksh 3.1 billion) in debt and equity through a fundraising led by Goldman Sac...

Twiga Foods

World Food Day: Farmers encouraged to embrace technology

By Citizen Reporter,

Farmers in Vihiga County were on Thursday urged to embrace technology as a way of redefining agribusiness. Speaking to farmers during the marking o...

Pamela Kimwele , Pamela Mahila , Vihiga

BWIRE: Solar energy is the option to lighting Kenya

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Players in the solar energy sector are raising challenges in the industry that government needs to relook as a matter of priority. ...

24-year-old university drop-out arrested for farming bhang

By Johnson Muriithi,

A 24-year-old man was on Wednesday arrested for cultivating and being possession of bhang in Mwea East, Kirinyaga County. Jackson Kariuki, who is r...

Kirinyaga

Uhuru’s Ksh.3 billion coffee fund hit by lengthy delay

By Kepha Muiruri,

The implementation of the Ksh.3 billion evolving cherry advanced coffee fund faces a lengthy delay, this as the state ties up the operation of the kit...

coffee farming in Kenya , KPCU , Uhuru kenyatta

Change food production and stop abusing land, major climate report warns

By CNN,

Humans have damaged around a quarter of ice-free land on Earth, United Nations scientists warned in a major report Thursday, stressing that further de...

climate report , food production , Global emmissions , Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , World Wildlife Fund's (WWF)

African cattle investing – the new cash cow?

By Reuters,

Cattle have long been considered a measure of wealth across Africa - but it is not just farmers cashing in. A pioneering app in South Africa lets i...

cattle farming

The wildcat gold miners who get rich sick in Ghana

By Reuters,

A few years after coming as a teenager to this town in Ghana to prospect for gold, Yaw Ngoha had made enough cash to marry his sweetheart and build a ...

Ghana , Gold Mining

Ex-Nairobi Finance boss Jimmy Kiamba to pay Ksh.317M or forfeit Runda home

By Dzuya Walter,

A Nairobi court on Wednesday ordered former Nairobi Finance minister Jimmy Kiamba to pay the government a total of over Ksh. 317million or forfeit his...

EACC , Jimmy Kiamba , Justice Hedwig Ogundi

Finding Dad Part 2: ‘Cucu, baba yangu ni nani?’

By Citizen Reporter,

High school came and went and I was locked out of university for missing the cut off mark by a few points. Also Read: Finding Dad: My story of pain...

finding dad

Planning a BBQ? Not if you want to save the planet

By Reuters,

Meat sizzling on the barbecue (BBQ) might be synonymous with summer, but consumers should re-think their menus to save the planet, a U.S.-based resear...

illegal meat , World Resources Institute (WRI)

Agriculture, Manufacturing employees least paid in Kenya – Report reveals

By Kepha Muiruri,

Employees in the Agriculture and Manufacturing sectors are the least paid in the Kenyan job market, a new report by asset manager ICEA Lion shows. ...

agriculture in Kenya , ICEA LION , Kenya Association of Manufacturers , KNBS 2019 economic survey

Ex-PS Omollo accuses Assets Recovery Agency of lying she does not own farm

By Dzuya Walter,

Former Youth Affairs Principal Secretary Lilian Mbogo-Omollo on Wednesday accused the Assets Recovery Agency of lying to court that she does not have ...

Assets Recovery Agency , Lilian Omollo , NYS scandal , SIAYA COUNTY

UN Drug Report: Opioid use booming as Tramadol crisis emerges in Africa

By VOA,

Synthetic opioid use is booming, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a worldwide drug report that showed deaths in the United States from overdose...

africa , opium , UN Drug report

BWIRE: Why Africa must face climate change head on

By Citizen,

By Victor Bwire Accelerated effects of climate change including prolonged droughts are taking a toll on the economies of people in the Great Horn o...

At least 161 dead in northeast Congo in apparent ethnic clashes

By Reuters,

At least 161 people have been killed in a northeastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, local officials said on Monday, in a...

Democratic Republic of Congo.

7 Chinese nationals arrested in Gikomba, to be deported

By Dennis Musau,

Seven Chinese nationals were arrested on Wednesday at Nairobi's Gikomba Market for illegally engaging in trading activities. In a statement issued ...

Chinese Nationals , CS Fred Matiang’i

Trump vows rapid, high tariffs on Mexico unless illegal immigration ends

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump, responding to a surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border, vowed on Thursday to impose a tariff on all goods...

Central America and Mexico migrants , Crackdown on illegal immigrants , Donald Trump , U.S-Mexico border wall , US

Assets agency now wants ex-PS Omollo’s funds transferred to gov’t

By Dzuya Walter,

The Assets Recovery Agency now wants funds in accounts belonging to former Youth Affairs Principal Secretary Lilian Mbogo-Omollo transferred to the go...

Achieng Oneko , Assets Recovery Agency , Lilian Mbogo-Omollo , NYS scam