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Odinga is running his fifth presidential race. Why the outcome means so much for Kenya

Leo ni leo. Inawezekana (Today is the day. It is possible). These are the Kiswahili lyrics of Raila Odinga’s presidential campaign anthem. The 77-year-old veteran Kenyan politician has not lost optimism even though he’s contesting the election for the fifth time. He was in the race in 1997, 2007, 2013…

The Conversation

Kenya’s already fragile elections now face a dangerous new enemy: big tech platforms

Media complacency has allowed for a thriving disinformation industry that threatens Kenya’s democratic discourse, says Kenyan journalist Odanga Madung

The Guardian - UK

East African Community expands with the recent addition of DRC

The East African Community’s (EAC) membership has grown to seven with the official admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member. The other members are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.

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Ethiopia and Kenya triumph at Paris Marathon in near-freezing conditions

Ethiopia's Deso Gelmisa has won the Paris marathon and Kenya's Judith Jeptum secured the women's title.

Radio France Internationale

Kenya's Supreme Court blocks President Kenyatta's bid to change constitution

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was on Friday rethinking his political strategy after the country's top court stopped his move to make constitutional changes that opponents have branded a bid to increase his power.

Radio France Internationale

Top court blocks Kenyan president's bid to change constitution

In tonight's show: Kenya's top court blocks President Uhuru Kenyatta's bid to change the constitution. The controversial "Building Bridges Initiative" was proposed as a way to make politics more inclusive, but judges ruled it to be unconstitutional.

France 24

Kenya's Supreme Court blocks president's constitutional amendments

Kenya's Supreme Court on Thursday blocked sweeping constitutional changes proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta, the court said, declaring the process unconstitutional through a majority ruling.

Reuters

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Kenya's top court to issue final ruling on president's constitutional changes

Kenya's Supreme Court is scheduled on Thursday to rule on President Uhuru Kenyatta's bid to make sweeping constitutional changes, which critics have seized and turned into a top issue for a presidential election this August.

Reuters

Nottingham painter overjoyed as Kenyan wife can finally join him in UK after Home Office U-turn

Her visa was initially rejected

Nottingham Post

Algorithms, bots and elections in Africa: how social media influences political choices

The rise in the use of smartphones and an increased adoption of mobile internet in Africa are fundamentally altering the media ecology for election campaigns.

The Conversation

Ducati affected by MotoGP cargo plane breakdown in Kenya

Ducati and two of its satellite squads have been affected by a MotoGP cargo plane breaking down in Kenya on its way to this weekend’s Argentine Grand Prix.

Autosport

From being property to owning one: A Maasai woman’s struggle for land

In Maasai custom, girls are largely considered their father’s property – until they become their husband’s property.

Al Jazeera

How Mombasa’s beach yoghurts powered a Kenyan reforestation drive

Yoghurt cups are among the most popular beach litter in Mombasa but they have become an unlikely reforesting apparatus.

Al Jazeera

William Ruto, the presidential candidate taking on Kenya's political dynasties

The recent party nomination of deputy president William Samoei Ruto as a presidential candidate sets the stage for a tight race in Kenya’s elections scheduled for early August.

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DRC is set to become 7th member of the east Africa trading bloc: what's in it for everyone

Shortly after his controversial electoral victory in early 2019, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi sought to get his country admitted into the East African Community. Recently, the East African Community ministers recommended the DRC’s admission, a decision set to be formalised by the bloc’s…

The Conversation

What explains food price hikes in Kenya. And what should be done

Kenyans are caught in the grip of higher food prices brought about by a combination of adverse weather, rising input costs – which have been worsened by the Ukraine war – as well as policy adjustments the government agreed to to access funding from the International Monetary Fund. The prices…

The Conversation

From message to violence: what to watch for in the media ahead of Kenya's elections

As Kenya heads towards elections, concerns about the outbreak of electoral violence tend to rise.

The Conversation

Kenya has a yellow fever outbreak: how to deal with it

On 5 March 2022, Kenya declared an outbreak of yellow fever in Isiolo County after the death of three people. More than 20 people were reported to have contracted the deadly viral disease in Isiolo in the previous month. Counties bordering Isiolo were placed in the high-risk bracket.

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The Independent UK

What can Kenyan herders teach us about living in a volatile world?

The effects of climate change are already being felt by the pastoral peoples of Kenya, so we should try to learn how these people are living with uncertainty, writes Samuel Derbyshire

Daily Mirror

Osama Bin Laden's 'spokesman' back in Britain after police quiz lasting just ONE HOUR

Adel Abdel Bary was convicted after US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which left 224 dead in 1998. However, he has now returned to Britain after a one-hour long police quiz

The Conversation

Boda bodas are critical to Kenya's transport system. But they've gone rogue

Kenya’s removal of import duty on motorcycles over a decade ago led to the instant creation of tens of thousands of new jobs in the transport sector, notably in the growth of motorcycle taxis, better known as boda bodas. However, the sector is also in the news for all the…

The Guardian - AU

Thursday briefing: Britons held captive by Iran home at last

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe touches down on British soil … Russia accused of strike on theatre where civilians were sheltering … and why Kenya is flooding

The Guardian - UK

A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people

The Independent UK

Edward plants Jubilee tree in Kenya close to where his mother first became Queen

The earl has travelled to the Aberdare National Park, near the Treetops hotel where Princess Elizabeth was staying in 1952.

The Guardian - UK

Hope for Kenya’s mountain bongos as five released into sanctuary

Rewilding programme marks the ‘most significant step’ in ensuring the critically endangered species’ survival

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