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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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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…

Radio France Internationale

Projects like Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway can unlock development

Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, which links Nairobi and Mombasa, East Africa’s largest port, was built to ease the pressure on the road network. Construction started in 2013 and was completed in 2017, with an extension in 2019. The line transports passengers as well as cargo. It makes the trip between…

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The Kenyan company turning trash into cash

Finding a gap in the industry, Kenyan entrepreneurs Mohamud Omari and Rashid Omari founded a Kenyan-made pencil company, manufacturing hundreds of thousands of pencils every year from recycled newspaper at their factory in Nairobi.

Radio France Internationale

Six people killed in suspected bomb blast in Goma, DR Congo

In this edition of Eye on Africa, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where six people have died following an explosion in a military camp in Goma. Meanwhile, the DRC's president travels to Nairobi to sign his country’s treaty of accession to the East Africa Community. And we…

France 24

Abortion in Spain: Despite being legal, many doctors refuse to perform them

Abortion is legal in Spain yet a number of doctors in the public system still refuse to carry out the procedure, calling themselves "conscientious objectors." Their stance forcing women to use private clinics. We also head to Kibera in the Kenyan city of Nairobi which is Africa's largest urban slum;…

France 24

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

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Ashun Wu rides dynamic short game to comfortable win at DP World Tour’s Magical Kenya Open

After the round, Wu was greeted by his wife and young daughter, both of whom made the trip to Nairobi.

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UN, Cairo Discuss Preparations for COP27 Climate Conference

Egypt’s Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad met on Thursday with Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group Amina Mohamed to discuss Egypt’s preparations to host the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh in November. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Global and grassroots come together as landmark plastics agreement signed in Nairobi

Tired of the poor improper plastic waste disposal in Nairobi, Kenya, Nzambi Matee, 29, took it upon herself to solve one of the world’s biggest environmental concerns by changing the world - one brick at a time.

Radio France Internationale

UN to Take First Step towards 'Historic' Plastic Treaty

The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address a plastic trash "epidemic" that supporters say is a historic moment for the planet. The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), convening in Nairobi, is poised to adopt a resolution creating an intergovernmental committee to negotiate…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kenya and Zimbabwe have been suspended from world football: what happens next

Kenya and Zimbabwe have both been suspended by the world’s football governing body, FIFA, owing to government interference in the operations of the national football federations. Nairobi and Harare dissolved their federations late last year and replaced them with government-appointed officials. The suspension, overshadowed for now by Russia’s dramatic banishment…

The Conversation

UN environment meeting in Kenya: a chance to finally act?

The United Nations Environment Assembly is gathering for three days in Kenya’s capital to find holistic solutions to today’s environmental threats. The fight against plastic pollution is one of the key topics to be tabled with the hope governments will agree on a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.

Radio France Internationale

Good hair day: Nairobi stylist's wigs lift morale of breast cancer patients

Hair stylist Diana Aketch felt helpless. She wanted to help a friend who was battling breast cancer but didn’t know how.

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UN to Agree on Plan for 'Historic' Plastics Treaty

More than 100 nations convening in Nairobi next week are expected to take the first steps toward establishing a historic global treaty to tackle the plastic crisis afflicting the planet. Plastic has been found in Arctic sea ice, the bellies of whales and Earth's atmosphere, and governments have been under…

Bangkok Post

'Historic’ global plastics treaty in pipeline

More than 100 countries will gather in Nairobi next week to take the first steps toward establishing a historic global treaty to tackle the plastic crisis afflicting the planet.

The Guardian - UK

Plastic summit could be most important green deal since Paris accords, says UN

World leaders to gather in Nairobi next week to discuss first global treaty to combat plastic waste

Asharq Al-Awsat

75% of People Want Single-Use Plastics Banned, Global Survey Finds

Three in four people worldwide want single-use plastics to be banned as soon as possible, according to a poll released on Tuesday, as United Nations members prepare to begin talks on a global treaty to rein in soaring plastic pollution. The percentage of people calling for bans is up from…

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Twitter in Kenya's last poll: a great way to reach voters, but not a game-changer

Kenyans will head to the polls in August this year for what is expected to be a hotly contested presidential election. Opposition leader Raila Odinga is running for the fifth time, but on this occasion with the support of his former rival, President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is ineligible to stand…

Daily Mirror

Platinum Jubilee: How Queen Elizabeth II found 'classic look' as a young monarch in 1952

As part of a series celebrating the Platinum Jubilee after 70 incredible years on the throne, we look back at some standout styles from the year Princess Elizabeth became our Queen

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Varughese obituary

Other lives: Fine art and English teacher whose love of painting and drawing pervaded all parts of her life

Al Jazeera

Kenya beefs up security after warnings of possible attacks

Police operations come after several European embassies warned of risk of possible attacks.

The Conversation

Kenya Airways is in financial trouble (again). Why national carriers have a hard time

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, offers flights to over 56 destinations in 39 countries. This should be a remarkable feat in these waning days of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Daily Record

Wigtown home carer heading to Kenya on one-woman mercy mission

Ann Todd is heading to Nukuru and Nairobi after spending two years fundraising to help people in the country

Newslaundry

NDTV’s founders prevented from leaving country, LOC issued in June

On August 9, NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy were prevented from leaving the country. The basis of this was a lookout circular (LOC) issued in relation to a two-year-old case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The couple was supposed to board a Kenya Airways flight…

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