Uganda seizes ivory smuggled in timbers

By VOA,

Ugandan authorities have confiscated roughly 750 pieces of ivory and thousands of pangolin scales trucked into the East African country from northern ...

Ivory smuggled in timbers , uganda

Global oil demand under growing threat from electric cars, cleaner fuel

By Reuters,

Electric vehicles and more efficient fuel technology will cut transportation demand for oil by 2040 more than previously expected, but the world may s...

electric cars , International Energy Agency (IEA) , Oil , United States , World Energy Outlook

Tullow revises crude shipment to 2019

By Citizen Reporter,

Tullow Oil has revised Kenya’s expected first crude oil shipments. The company now says this could happen in the first half of 2019 and is pricin...

Tullow Oil

Oil operations to resume next week

By Sophie Kinoti,

The government will resume trucking crude oil from Turkana to Mombasa next week, two months after the project stalled due to disputes with the local c...

community dispute , John Munyes , Martin Mbogo , Ministry of Petroleum , Mombasa , MOU , road , transport , trucking , Tullow Oil , turkana

Govt to sign MoU to end oil trucking standoff

By Citizen Team,

The ongoing crude oil transportation deadlock in Turkana is costing Kenyan tax payers up to Ksh10 million a day according to the state department of p...

Andrew Kamau , early oil pilot scheme , EOPS , local community , Lokichar , MOU , revenue share agreement , standoff , state department of petroleum , Tullow Oil , turkana

Tullow halts Kenya oil fields due to security issues

By Reuters,

Tullow Oil has stopped work at its Kenyan oilfield and halted trucking operations due to security issues, Chief Executive Paul McDade told Reuters on ...

Community , insecurity , MOU , Oil , Paul McDade , trucking , Tullow

Tullow mulls halting Kenya operations over protests

By Reuters,

Britain’s Tullow Oil said on Tuesday that it may be forced to shut down operations at its northern Kenyan oilfields after the local community stoppe...

early oil pilot scheme , hostilities , Martin Mbogo , oil production , protests , trucking , Tullow , turkana

Govt delays resumption of oil trucking

By Citizen Reporter,

The government has pushed back plans to resume oil transport from Turkana to Mombasa scheduled for tomorrow as it meets Tullow officials to come up wi...

delays , John Munyes , Oil , Politics , revenue share , sovereign fund , state department of petroleum , trucking , Tullow Oil , turkana

Govt plans sovereign fund for oil revenue as blockade continues

By Kepha Muiruri,

The government is considering setting up a sovereign fund to manage the local community revenue share from proceeds of the country’s crude oil. T...

crude oil , early oil pilot scheme , FID , field development , final investment decision , insecurity , John Munyes , local community , Oil , revenue , security , Tullow Oil , turkana , Uhuru kenyatta

Early oil trials set for June 3

By Citizen,

Kenya is set to start transporting oil to Mombasa next month as part of the early oil pilot scheme (EOPS). The project comes after close to a year�...

Africa Oil , early oil , EOPS , evacuation , ministry of mining and petroleum , Mombasa , Total , transport , Tullow Oil , turkana , Uhuru kenyatta

Drought situation in Isiolo County raises alarm

By Josiah Mugo,

18% of children below the age of five in Isiolo County are reported to be suffering from acute malnutrition, with the situation expected to worsen if ...

Conflict , County Coordinator , Drought , Hunger , Isiolo County , Isiolo County government , Isiolo County Governor Mohammed Kuti , Lordman Lekalkuli , Mohammed Kuti , National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) , pasture , rainfall , school children , water

Govt eyes Sh100bn from National Oil dual listing

By Reuters,

Kenya plans to raise $1 billion (Sh100 billion) by listing its National Oil Corporation at home and on the London Stock Exchange by early 2019, to buy...

Andrew Kamau , back in rights , early oil export , london stock exchange , Nairobi Securities Exchange , National Oil , Oil , Petroleum , Tullow

Fear of epidemic disaster as disease stalks Rohingya camps

By Citizen Reporter,

Rashida Begum steers clear of the water pump near the reeking latrine shared by more than 100 families in a grim corner of Bangladesh that has grown i...

ROHINGYA , ROHINGYA CRISIS , ROHINGYA MUSLIMS , ROHINGYA REFUGEES

NTSA suspends Sacco in deadly Thursday road crash

By Julius Joho,

Road carnage has claimed the lives of 941 Kenyans in the last four months alone. This is a revelation from the National Transport and Safety Author...

accidents , Lorries , NTSA , NTSA Managing Director Francis Meja , road carnage , road crashes

Cholera spreads in famine-threatened Somalia

By Reuters,

Deadly cholera is spreading through drought-ravaged Somalia as clean water sources dry up, a top aid official said, deepening a humanitarian crisis in...

Uber suspends self-driving car program after Arizona crash

By Reuters,

Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday after a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crash...

arizona , self-driving crash , uber

Drought-hit pastoralists to receive cash payouts starting this week

By PSCU,

  President Uhuru Kenyatta will this week formally launch cash payouts to support pastoralists to purchase fodder and animal feeds for their s...

CLIMATE CHANGE , Drought , FAMINE , Hunger

BOI: A STARVING NATION: The bewilderment of a self scorned future

By Desmond Boi,

The world seems to be predominantly infected and awash with both human and naturally initiated omens and disasters that curtail all hopes of a better ...

Gov’t expands mitigation efforts as drought continues to bite

By Lisa Kamau,

  The government has sought to assure Kenyans that it is doing its best to mitigate the effects of the ongoing drought by expanding its drough...

drought mitigation , State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu

Drought to intensify in Kenya in 2017, new early warning system shows

By Reuters,

Kenya needs to brace itself for worsening drought in 2017, the United Nations said on Tuesday December 14, using a new early warning system that predi...

Drought