Mombasa

Dr. Worknch Gebeyehu speaks to African leaders during the State of African Region at the Whitesands Beach Hotel in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard] An intergovernmental agency has warned that conflict in the region has weakened the response to al-Shabaab and other terrorist groups. The Intergovernmental Authority for Development (Igad) also …

The Kenyan Meteorological Office warns of the threat of heavy rain that could lead to flooding. According to a weather warning, the intensity of precipitation on Tuesday will increase to 30 millimeters within 24 hours. Affected counties include; Embu, Meru, Murang’a, Nairobi and Nyeri. The others are; Kiambu, Kirinyaga, Tharaka …

ODM leader Raila Odinga. [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard] Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) will use consensus, delegates or opinion polls to select its candidate for Mombasa governor in the 2022 election. Yesterday, ODM chairman Raila Odinga, who precluded universal suffrage, said it had “failed to produce the desired results” in the past, …

A family in Mombasa seeks help after their loved ones went missing days after graduating from General Service Unit (GSU) Training School. According to the information, the graduate identified as Mohammed Daud went missing immediately after leaving the GSU Embakasi camp in Nairobi. The desperate family found that the new …

The Kenyan government has hired a US company, K&M Advisors, to conduct a feasibility study for gas power generation in Mombasa County. The move follows the country’s desire to reduce its reliance on Dar es Salaam for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), as a result of which the Tanga plant in …

Have you traveled widely by public transport? What’s more, at night? It is not the best time to learn evil lessons from the universe. I had an uncomfortable experience on a night bus from Mombasa to Nairobi. For some reason, we love to do each other good when we travel. …

A Chinese and Kenyan worker at the Mombasa Terminus on March 27, 2017. PHOTO / FILE Kenya‘s ambitious plan to run dozens of mega-projects across the country was dealt a severe blow by a decision by China to cut funding for projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, invented by …

December 8th – Where am I from? Where am I going? How do I get there? For people who have lived in different places, the hardest question to answer is usually the first: Where am I from? The opposite is the case with co-authors Bernadette Colicchio Dawson and Ted Dieffenbacher. …

Thirty-three members of the Embu County Assembly traveled to Arusha for a two-week training course to learn basic etiquette. This follows the rescheduling of the assembly sessions from December 1, 2021 to February 8, 2022 due to the Christmas vacation. It is the second time the MCAs travel to Arusha …

By Elias Biryabarema and Karin Strohecker KYANKWANZI, Uganda (Reuters) – Chinese private investment in Uganda is increasing as Westerners lose their appetite to invest money in the country, President Yoweri Museveni told Reuters and pledged to step up efforts to fight corruption, which have been slow . Museveni, in power …