Nzoia Sugar Company loses 228 bags of sugar to fraudsters

By Kassim Adinasi,

Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives have pitched camp at Nzoia Sugar Company to investigate alleged theft of 228 bags of sugar. ...

Nzoia Sugar Company

MCKINSEY: Priorities for school systems in the age of coronavirus

By Guest Writer,

As of mid-April, 191 countries had shut down all their primary and secondary schools, affecting almost 1.6 billion children. The shift to remote le...

coronavirus , online learning

Russia joins 100 countries demanding probe into handling of Covid-19

By CNN,

Russian President Vladimir Putin once called Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, a "lone warrior." Putin was joking, but that description is starting t...

china , coronavirus , russia

Augsburg coach breaks quarantine rules to buy toothpaste

By Reuters,

Augsburg coach Heiko Herrlich will miss the re-start of the Bundesliga on Saturday after he broke strict quarantine rules by leaving the team hotel to...

Augsburg , coronavirus , German Bundesliga

Inside details of Uhuru,Kiir, Museveni and Kagame virtual meeting and what it means for EAC

By PSCU,

Continued free movement of goods and the management of cross-border spread of Covid-19 were top agenda in today's meeting of the East African Communit...

coronavirus

Two White House aides test positive for COVID-19

By VOA,

At least two White House aides have tested positive for COVID-19: a valet for President Donald Trump and the press secretary for Vice President Mike...

coronavirus , fauci , Trump

Freed Italian aid worker Silvia Romano returns home on special flight

By Reuters,

Silvia Romano, an Italian aid worker kidnapped 18 months ago in Kenya, landed in Rome on Sunday a day after being freed. Gunmen seized Romano, who ...

Silvia Romano

Dr. Fauci in quarantine after contact with White House staffer who contracted coronavirus

By CNN,

Dr. Anthony Fauci will begin a "modified quarantine" after making a "low risk" contact with the White House staffer who tested positive for the novel ...

coronavirus , fauci , Trump , White House

Trump sought a reopening but found the virus in the White House instead

By CNN,

President Donald Trump hoped this would be the week he emerged into a nation recovering from pandemic. Instead the pandemic came to him. A day afte...

coronavirus , President Donald Trump

China is installing surveillance cameras outside people’s front doors…and sometimes inside their homes

By CNN,

The morning after Ian Lahiffe returned to Beijing, he found a surveillance camera being mounted on the wall outside his apartment door. Its lens was p...

china , surveillance camera , Weibo

The virus hunters who search bat caves to predict the next pandemic

By CNN,

Before entering the cave, the small team of scientists pull on hazmat suits, face masks and thick gloves to cover every inch of their skin. Contact wi...

bat caves , coronavirus , COVID-19 , EcoHealth Alliance

Kenya Forest Service plants 5,000 indigenous seedlings at Ontulili station

By Agencies,

The Kenya Forest Service on Saturday achieved another key milestone in the implementation of the 2018 Taskforce on Forest Resources Management and Log...

President Kenyatta extends dusk-to-dawn curfew, travel restrictions by 21 days

By Ian Omondi,

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday extended the nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew as well as the ban on movement in and out of the Nairobi Metropolitan...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , curfew , President Uhuru Kenyatta

High alert in Uganda after 5 Kenyan truck drivers test positive for coronavirus

By Citizen Reporter,

5 Kenyan truck drivers who arrived in Uganda have tested positive for coronavirus. According to Uganda's Health Ministry, three of them arrived via...

aceng , coronavirus , kenyan truck drivers , uganda

The dire effects of Covid-19 on Kenya’s sports journalists

By Isaac Swila,

SPECIAL REPORT      Isaac Swila Under normal circumstances, Jacob Icia, Gilbert Kiprotich, Ernest Mkalla, Geoffrey Mwamburi, Godfrey Ashiali, Luqm...

Coronavirus impact , COVID-19 , Effects on sports journalists , kenya , RMS , Sports Journalim

Covid-19 vaccine trial on humans starts as UK warns restrictions could stay in place until next year

By CNN,

Scientists in the UK will begin trials of a potential Covid-19 vaccine on humans Thursday, as the government warns it could have to rely on social dis...

coronavirus , COVID-19

In 1911, another epidemic swept through China. That time, the world came together

By CNN,

In 1911, a deadly epidemic spread through China and threatened to become a pandemic. Its origins appeared to be related to the trade in wild animals, ...

china , Lockdowns , Quarantine , The Great Manchurian Plague , who

Kenyans who bribed their way out of Mandera quarantine facility to be charged

By Ian Omondi,

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has now revealed that a group of Kenyans paid a bribe in order to be irregularly released from a quarantine faci...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe , Mandera County. , Quarantine

Meet Caroline Makena, the police officer who makes face masks and distributes them for free

By Ian Omondi,

A police officer in Elgeyo Marakwet has captured the hearts of many after it emerged that she uses her free time to make face masks which she then dis...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Elgeyo Marakwet County , Face masks , police officer

US may have to endure social distancing until 2022 if no vaccine is quickly found

By CNN,

This may be the new normal for quite a while. The US may have to endure social distancing measures -- such as stay-at-home orders and school closur...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , social distancing