OPINION: COVID likely to spur housing boom in counties neighbouring Nairobi

By Guest Writer,

By Jeremy Gitonga In a recent interview with Citizen TV’s Yvonne Okwara, Unity Homes Executive Director John Latham revealed that the Covid-19 p...

Housing

Cities reboot: Will adapting to COVID-19 change urban life for good?

By Reuters,

Downtowns are deserted and happy hour is history as a second coronavirus wave hits cities from London to Kuala Lumpur. This is leaving futurologist...

coronavirus , urban dwellers

Early identification of prehypertension as a preventive measure can avert associated morbidity and death

By Citizen Reporter,

As Kenya joined the world in marking World Hypertension Day on Saturday, a new study has revealed an overall burden of 54.5% and 20.8% for prehyperten...

health

Kenyan NGO SHOFCO recognised for helping the needy amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) has been ranked as the top known organization that has provided assistance to the needy since COVID-19 hit Kenya...

Kenyans turn to their families in the village as coronavirus steals jobs

By Reuters,

In the last three months, teacher Faith Njeri has been a regular customer at a courier service office in Nairobi, collecting parcels sent from her vil...

coronavirus , families , jobs , rural

OPINION: The future of new cities in Kenya

By Guest Writer,

By Jeremy Gitonga The unfolding troubles bedeviling some large scale developers of residential houses in the country provide an important reali...

COVID-19 exposes the harsh realities of gender inequality in slums

By Guest Writer,

The COVID-19 pandemic is largely concentrated in cities and urban areas, with around 2,600 cities globally reporting at least one case of the disease....

coronavirus , Gender inequality , Kibra

OPINION: Why it is wise to build trust before pushing policy

By Citizen Reporter,

By Michael Cherambos The recent move announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Jamhuri Day that the government will rescind the 1.5 per cent housin...

BBI , housing levy , President Uhuru Kenyatta

Grey fingers: Ageing Singapore uses gardening to fight loneliness

By Reuters,

Since her mother died last year, 74-year-old Lim Yeo Hong has been living alone in a flat on the outskirts of Singapore, scavenging for cardboard scra...

Singapore , United Nations

As drought stokes urban hunger, Ethiopia dishes up free school meals

By Reuters,

Endale Terefe from Addis Ababa,Ethiopia remembers a time when he used to go to school so hungry he had trouble staying awake during lessons. The 14...

Ethiopia , free school lunch

BWIRE: It’s time to address the housing mess in Kenya

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Dysfunctional systems including poor state of public transport, infrastructure, sanitation, water and schools will continue frustra...

Housing , UN Habitat

BWIRE: UN-Habitat Assembly is a low hanging fruit for Kenya

By Victor Bwire,

Kenya is hosting the first session of the UN-Habitat Assembly from May 27-31, 2019 in Nairobi, at the UN-Habitat headquarters. The UN-Habitat Assem...

SDG's , UN-Habitat Assembly

Investor education still a bug to M-Akiba uptake

By Kepha Muiruri,

Experts have largely identified insufficient investor knowledge as the prevailing and underlying challenge to topping the uptake of the mobile phone t...

m-akiba , National Treasury , nse

Hands Off! Kenyan slum dwellers unite to protect city dam

By VOA,

It is Friday morning, and the southeastern fringe of Kibera slum comes alive as teams of women and youngsters converge on the edge of the Nairobi dam....

Kibera , slum

On solid ground: armed with land titles, Tanzania’s slum dwellers tackle poverty

By Reuters,

For Maria Mkwawa, the Tanzanian government’s decision to issue her with a formal land title to her home in January was a pleasant surprise. “It wi...

land title , Tanzania

Slum graffiti warns Kenyans about trafficking risks

By Reuters,

Brutal images of a woman cowering as a man beats her and of a terrified girl in chains sprayed on the walls of Kenya’s Mathare slum bring a hidden c...

cryptocurrencies , Human Trafficking , Mathare slum , rural poverty , Slum Dwellers , Slum graffiti

What to do if you’re attacked by bees

By Sally Boyani,

There is a saying that goes, bees can be domesticated but not tamed. On Thursday, these hive dwellers showed  protestors, police and journalists in e...

Bees , Bees at the Supreme Court , How to escape a bee attack , Police attacked by bees , Protesters dispersed by bees

MWANGI: In the face of grinding poverty, who needs attack helicopters?

By Isaac Mwangi,

Countries that are integrating cannot possibly be considering going to war against each other, right? Then why is there an arms race in East Africa? W...

Zambia gets Chinese finance to build 2,000 houses for military

By Reuters,

A Chinese bank will help finance the construction of 2,000 homes for Zambian military personnel who face a critical shortage of housing, president Edg...

chinese investment , Zambia

Sonko to appeal case where court declined to compensate Sinai fire survivors

By Dzuya Walter,

Nairobi Senator, Gideon Mbuvi - alias Mike Sonko, intends to appeal against the High Court decision that declined to award Ksh 25 billion sought by su...