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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.

Radio France Internationale

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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'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.

Bangkok Post

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

The Guardian - UK

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

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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

Daily Mirror

Elizabeth Varughese obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

Kenya beefs up security after warnings of possible attacks

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

Al Jazeera

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.

The Conversation

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

Daily Record

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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