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Kenya moved 22 colobus monkey groups to Karura Forest; 109 births followed

Between 2014 and 2016, conservationists moved 22 groups of Mount Kenya guerezas, a rare subspecies of colobus monkey, from a badly degraded riverine habitat to Karura Forest near Nairobi, Kenya. A new study titled ‘ Demography of reintroduced Mount Kenya guereza (Colobus guereza kikuyuensis) at Karura Forest, Kenya ’ in…

The Times of India

Pride and joy as Kenya chosen to host 2029 World Athletics Championships

Athletics-mad Kenya is rejoicing after Nairobi was selected to host the 2029 world championships, becoming the first African city to ever stage the event.

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Kenya has a doping crisis – so why has it been awarded the World Athletics Championships?

COMMENT: Nairobi beat London and Rome for the right to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships in a historic first for Africa, writes Lawrence Ostlere. But Kenya is a problematic host

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London ‘deeply disappointed’ to lose out to Nairobi with World Championship bid

The Kenyan country becomes the first African host of the global showpiece.

The Independent UK

London loses out to Nairobi in bid to host 2029 World Athletics Championships

Nairobi, Kenya will be the first African host of athletics’ biggest event outside the Olympic Games

The Independent UK

London snubbed in favour of Nairobi for 2029 World Athletics Championships

London’s bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships has ended in failure after it lost out a ‘groundbreaking’ pitch from Nairobi

The Guardian - UK

Children die in a school fire in Bukavu

In tonight's programme we begin in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where children have died after a school fire broke out in the M23 rebel occupied city of Bukavu. Also, Senegal looks to the skies as it seeks to develop its home-grown satellite industry. And finally, we…

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Street acrobats entertain motorists stuck in the Kenyan capital's notorious traffic

Acrobats are materializing at traffic stops in and around the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, providing entertainment to motorists stuck in jams

The Independent UK

Meet the Nairobi acrobats turning Kenyan traffic jams into a livelihood

In a country where unemployment remains widespread these performers can match the daily wage of labourers and farm workers

The Independent UK

Kenya cracks down on foreign traders

In tonight's edition, Hundreds of Burundians flocked to ⁠their embassy in Nairobi to get travel documents to return home. Also, in his first speech to the National assembly, Senegal’s Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo slams the rise of xenophobic rhetoric on the continent. Also, FRANCE 24's Georja Calvin Smith…

France 24

Kenya aviation workers end strike that paralyzed airport operations in the capital

Kenyan aviation workers have called off a strike that paralyzed air traffic for two days at the main international airport in the capital Nairobi

The Independent UK

Workers' strike at Kenya's main international airport leaves passengers stranded

A workers’ strike has slowed air traffic at Kenya’s main airport in Nairobi, leaving many stranded after their flights were delayed or canceled

The Independent UK

Nairobi’s expansion is swallowing up rural land: new book reveals the impacts on families

Nairobi’s transformation into a “world-class city” is both anticipated and celebrated in Kenya’s media. A new book, Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya, examines how the city’s expansion conceals profound social upheavals. These have root causes in the opportunities created by surging land values in rural…

The Conversation

The Great Wildebeest Migration in Masai Mara: A Budget Safari Guide for Indian Travellers

What the Crossing Actually Looks LikeNothing prepares you for the sound. Before you see a single wildebeest, you hear the herd, a low, collective grunt that builds like a crowd outside a stadium. Then the bank opposite fills with bodies, thousands of them pressed together, and the animals at the…

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Tanzania Serengeti and Zanzibar: The Africa Safari Indian Travellers Keep Postponing and Should Book

The list that never becomes a ticketYou have had this trip on your mind for a while. Maybe since you watched a wildlife documentary and the Serengeti looked so enormous and so quiet that you felt something shift. Maybe since a colleague came back from Tanzania and you asked too…

Times Life

The Indian Heritage Trail in Kenya: How a Railway Built a Diaspora That Never Left

The Line That Cost 2,500 LivesBetween 1896 and 1901, the British colonial government shipped roughly 32,000 workers from India, most of them from Punjab and Gujarat, to build a railway across 900 kilometres of East African terrain. They called it the Uganda Railway. Winston Churchill, who visited the finished line…

Bangkok Post

Ecuador intel chief, five Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash

NAIROBI - Ecuador's intelligence chief and five US citizens died when a tourist helicopter crashed in central Kenya on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, officials said.

Bangkok Post

Ebola cases in Congo exceed 5,000

NAIROBI — The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic ‌Republic of Congo (DRC) now exceeds 5,000, government data showed late on Tuesday, as health officials warn that response efforts are failing ⁠to contain the deadly disease.

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14-year-old Dineth Fernando moved to Australia seven months ago and studied 200 Scrabble words a day; recently he became world youth Scrabble champion

Hard work takes you a long way and 14-year-old Dineth Fernando has already found that 200 words a day can take you very far. The Melbourne teenager has only been in Australia for seven months but has already been to Nairobi and back with one of the biggest prizes in…

The Guardian - UK

London to face Rome, Munich and Nairobi after confirming 2029 World Athletics bid

London has submitted its bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships after reaching an agreement with West Ham to allow it host the event in September

The Conversation

Pregnant and parenting teens in Nairobi’s informal settlements: the hidden mental toll of stigma

Pregnancy is demanding at any age. But for adolescents, it comes on top of everything else they are dealing with: school, relationships, and the passage into adulthood. Add the hormonal shifts and shock of an unplanned pregnancy, and the weight of societal disapproval, and it is little wonder that pregnant…

The Conversation

Nairobi’s largest informal settlement is getting an upgrade. But who will actually benefit from new apartments?

Bulldozers and construction crews are reshaping parts of Nairobi’s best-known informal settlement, Kibera. In a video shared by President William Ruto, new apartment blocks rise alongside existing corrugated-iron structures, while new roads cut through the settlement. The message is clear: Kenya’s affordable housing programme is bringing modern housing to one…

The Independent UK

Women are dying in Africa as US ramps up its global battle against abortion

The Trump administration's new, sweeping restrictions on U.S. funding for nongovernmental organizations, foreign governments and U.N. agencies that promote access to abortion overseas is delivering new momentum to U.S. anti-abortion groups

Bangkok Post

Kenya's goons: a world of political violence and desperation

NAIROBI — Kenyan politicians are hiring armed thugs for as little as US$4 per day, as poverty and ruthless political competition threaten to unleash uncontrollable violence ahead of elections next year.

Euronews

Nairobi man shares home with rescued birds

Nairobi's 'Birdman' Rodgers Magutha rescues injured birds and lives with them, while defending his unusual bond with wildlife and conservation work.

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