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Kenyan leader Kibaki's legacy stained by re-election violence, graft

Kenya's former president Mwai Kibaki, who has died aged 90, ushered in economic reforms and a new constitution but failed to deliver on promises to combat graft and his tenure was marred by a disputed re-election which led to deadly violence.

Reuters

Mwai Kibaki: president who squandered the opportunity to fix Kenya

Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki, who has died at the age of 90, was born on November 15, 1931 in Othaya, Nyeri, in the central highlands of Kenya. He spent a lifetime in public service.

The Conversation

Kenya's former president Kibaki dies at 90

Mwai Kibaki, who served as Kenya's third president from 2003 to 2013, has died aged 90, President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Friday.

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African cities can do more to protect children from climate change

Six in 10 people will be living in cities by 2030. This is concerning. Cities are responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet cities can also do a lot to mitigate climate change and help people adapt to its impacts. Cities can use renewable energy sources, promote…

The Conversation

Geothermal power in Kenya: Providing the country with clean energy

With the climate crisis beginning to gain some traction in the France presidential campaign, we focus on a clean but little exploited source of power: geothermal energy, which creates electricity from the Earth's heat. Kenya has become a major producer, with its geothermal power plants now providing a third of…

France 24

Police launch manhunt for female athlete's boyfriend after she's found stabbed to death

Distance runner Damaris Muthee Mutua has been found stabbed to death with Kenyan police launching a manhunt to find her boyfriend, an Ethiopian athlete

Daily Mirror

Four Uni Pals Dodge Elephants And Cope With 104-Degree Heat As They Drive 3,700 Miles Across Africa

Ivo, Jasper, Robbie, and Josh, have teamed up with charity 'For Rangers' and are raising money.

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Latest approach to Kenya election hate speech raises more questions than answers

The election campaign period in Kenya is typically hectic for the statutory body that keeps tabs on inflammatory speech on political platforms and the media. This is hardly surprising for a public watchdog formed in response to the 2007 post-election violence in which more than 1,100 people were killed. Both…

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Big development projects can have negative effects on nature and people

There are some major development projects in progress on the continent. They include the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya and irrigation and hydropower projects in Tanzania’s Rufiji Basin. Projects like these have potential to change people’s lives for good. But they also come with risks.

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Google Shares Its African Product Development Center Debut Plans

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google invested in its Africa product development center debut in Nairobi, looking to host 800 million internet users and a third of the world's youth population by 2030. Its peer, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT), also invested in technology development hubs in Kenya and Nigeria, pumping $100 million and hiring hundreds of engineers…

Benzinga

Bahraini runner Damaris Muthee Mutua killed in Kenyan town where Olympian Agnes Tirop murdered last year

Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee Mutua is found dead in the same town where Olympian Agnes Tirop was stabbed to death in October, shining a light on violence against women in the East-African country.

ABC News

Africa's relationship with India: a diplomat's view

Rajiv Bhatia, who represented India as the most senior diplomat to Kenya, South Africa and Lesotho for a combined seven years, has written an account of the relationship between his country and Africa. It comes at a time when India’s relationship with countries on the continent has been gaining momentum.…

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Why African scientists are studying the genes of African species, and how they do it

DNA is the blueprint of life. All the information that an organism needs to survive, reproduce, adapt to environments or survive a disease is in its DNA.

The Conversation

Uni pals dodging elephants, coping with 40 degree heat, and trying to drive 6,000km across Africa - in only two tuk-tuks

So far Ivo and the crew have encountered wild chimpanzees on the beach, pangolins rescued from animal trafficking, and even confronted a four-metre-tall elephant they named Craig

Wales Online

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Peres Jepchirchir, Evans Chebet complete a Kenyan sweep in Boston Marathon

BOSTON — The 50th anniversary of women competing in the BAA Boston Marathon was celebrated with a battle for the ages.

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As COVID hit Kenya and South Africa, race and class fears were amplified on Twitter

It’s common in both Kenya and South Africa for there to be everyday conversations about inequalities in power relations and between “races”, classes and ethnic groups. Kenya, in East Africa, and South Africa, in southern Africa, share a history of British colonial divisions. In both countries, social movements and protest…

Radio France Internationale

Kenya and Zimbabwe go into 2023 Africa Cup draw, despite bans

Kenya and Zimbabwe will be included in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying draw on Tuesday in Johannesburg, despite being banned by world governing body Fifa because of political interference in football.

Radio France Internationale

A day in the life of a worker at Dandora, Nairobi's main dumping ground

Kenyan Sharon Atieno, 23, considers herself a busy woman. She believes in the saying 'the early bird catches the worm', and every day she leaves her Nairobi home at the crack of dawn to go to work. She is one of the waste collectors at the expansive Dandora dumping site…

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Atheism in Kenya: why accurate numbers are hard to come by

The accuracy of statistics on religious affiliations in sub-Saharan Africa is questionable. This makes it difficult to assess religious trends.

Radio France Internationale

S2,EP16: Kenya's waste-pickers, Cameroon's rising prices, and Uganda's antibiotic problem

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In Kenya, waste-pickers in Nairobi are worried about their livelihoods as politicians discuss a new dump site; Ugandan consumers are misusing antibiotics, which has had a knock-on effect for the country…

France 24

Does Elon Musk have the money to buy Twitter?

We take a closer look at the bid by the world's richest man to buy Twitter for $43 billion. Elon Musk would need the backing of major investment firms for the hostile takeover. We explore what a potential purchase could mean for free speech on Twitter and find out why…

Reuters

Kenya to deport Rubis CEO amid fuel crisis - local media

Kenya plans to deport the CEO of fuel storage and distribution company Rubis Energy Kenya over a fuel crisis, The Daily Nation newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing senior government sources who said the state signed a deportation order.

The Guardian - UK

Poison, persecution and people: why Kenya’s raptors are disappearing

Urgent action is needed, say conservationists, after report shows numbers of birds of prey in the country declining by as much as 95% over the past 40 years

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: Millions of Somalis at Risk of Famine

Millions of people in Somalia are at risk of famine, with young children the most vulnerable to the worsening drought in the troubled Horn of Africa nation, UN agencies warned on Tuesday. "Somalia is facing famine conditions as a perfect storm of poor rain, skyrocketing food prices and huge funding…

The Guardian - UK

From the Ranting Atheist to I Like Girls: the best African podcasts

Covering topics from queer Africans to a blogger’s disappearance, female hosts and producers from across the continent pick their top shows

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