Former ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo is among the high-profile political leaders who graced the wedding ceremony of Siaya Governor James Orengo’s son, Michael Orengo. In a statement on Saturday, October 26, 2024, Owalo who was recently appointed as the Deputy Chief of Staff in the Executive Office of the President, indicated that Michael Orengo…
Adani group Chairman Gautam Adani speaks during the inauguration of the 9th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, India on Jan 18, 2019. [File, AP Photo] In an interesting coincidence, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson in the same week that key indicators showed ordinary Kenyans sinking…
IOC President Thomas Bach, planning to retire in 2025, has opened up on what he plans to achieve before retirement, while also encouraging African nations to bid for future Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has opened up about his plans for retirement as he looks to achieve some of the projects…
Abdalla Ali, a lecturer at a university in Mogadishu, recently checked on Mohamed Osman, a relative who had lately come down with illness. The visit became some kind of trip to a museum. Osman was a civil servant in Somalia’s good years in the 1970s and ‘80s. He rose through the civil service ranks before…
Israel said its strikes against Iran Saturday were in retaliation for Tehran’s strikes on Israel on Oct 1, the latest exchange in an escalating conflict between the arch-rivals. This was the latest in a wider escalation since the war in Gaza began last year, but Israeli- Iranian enmity stretches back decades through a history of clandestine wars and attacks by land, sea, air and…
His motivation stems from the gold-medal winning exploits the sportsmen and women have brought to the country President William Ruto has committed Kenya to support refugees to participate in sports to the highest level. The president says Kenya will work with the International Olympic Committee as well as the United Nations and Refugee Agency in…
Engineers from KETRACO repair one of the six electricity towers along the Olkaria-Lessos-Kisumu power line that was vandalized by unknown people in Kayole estate in Naivasha. [File, Standard] President William Ruto’s government suffered a major blow after the High Court suspended the controversial multi-billion-shilling electricity transmission deal. Yesterday, Justice Bahati Mwamuye of the High Court issued the orders…
Africa is increasingly investing in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as part of the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The main aim of the Sendai Framework, which replaced the Hyogo Framework in 2015, is to achieve a substantial reduction in disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods, health, and the economic, physical,…
President William Ruto has underscored his commitment to uniting Kenyans and rejecting divisive, ethnic politics, asserting that Kenya should never again endure politics based on tribalism. Speaking at the Turkana Tourism and Cultural Festival in Lodwar, he emphasized the need for cohesion, adding that his diverse Cabinet reflects his resolve to unite all Kenyans, regardless…
National Olympics Committee of Kenya’s coffers will be boosted following confirmation that the International Olympics Committee will increase its grants to the country by 10 percent. National Olympics Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) is set for a shot in the arm after the International Olympics Committee (IOC) increased its funding to Kenya by 10 percent. The…
Authorities overseeing Tanzania’s upcoming local government elections this week published preliminary voter figures breaking past records, amid opposition claims of foul play in favour of the ruling CCM party, including the register being padded with ineligible voters. According to the statistics rolled out on October 22 by the Ministry of Regional Administration and Local Governments (Tamisemi),…
A cohort of 467 Forester Trainees and 102 Inspector Cadets will graduate from the Forest Law Enforcement Academy in Gilgil on Monday, marking a historic milestone for Kenya’s forest conservation efforts. The pass-out ceremony, to be held on October 28, will be presided over by President William Ruto, underscoring the national importance of forest protection…
The deadline for submissions has also been extended to Saturday, October 26 at 5 p.m. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] The Senate’s official email system crashed after receiving over 200,000 submissions on the Constitution of Kenya Amendment (No. 2) Bill, 2024. Thousands of Kenyans sent feedback on the proposal to extend the presidential and other elected leaders’…
Kenya is set to deploy a second contingent of 300 police officers to Haiti to strengthen efforts to counter gang control in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. The remaining officers are scheduled to depart in early 2025, ahead of a full United Nations mission expected later in the year. This was announced on Friday by Cabinet…
Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi has announced that Kenya is set to deploy a second contingent of 300 police officers to Haiti. In a statement posted on his official X account on Friday, October 25, 2024, Mudavadi, stated that the deployment aims at reinforcing efforts to combat…