“[The Commonwealth] guarantees you a voice: you will be heard in all our fora, as much as a country of a hundred million people, or a hundred thousand,” he said recently, adding that “our voices together will go further: they will go to the world.”
On his recent visit to Rwanda, Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma met [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
EXPECTIONS of a bumper rice yield in parts of Western Kenya now lie in jeopardy after torrential rains and raging floods disrupted harvesting season rendering many roads impassable.
Farmers in key producing areas of West Kano, Ahero, Sondu and Bunyala say they are unable to access their land in order to harvest despite of [...]
By Caroline Kusa Kwatemba
As Kenya and the world gear up to celebrating the Earth day on April 22, 2010; we need to take cognizance of the fact that the world and its people have changed a great deal, most changes are man made. Man himself has decided to change, what God has made for [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
KENYA may soon produce affordable agricultural fertilizer using human urine through an ambitious but expensive initiative by a sanitation company and a local university.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in collaboration with Ecotact are conducting tests and trials on urine, which the researchers say is rich in urea – [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
NAIROBI traders believe a plot has been hatched by a clique of powerful and wealthy foreigners to edge them out of the city economy.
Officials of Nairobi Central Business District Association (NCBDA) claim aliens using uncouth means, want to drive members out. The aliens have allegedly, intentions of destabilizing through a serious of demonstrations [...]
By Luvei Times reporter
In Nairobi, troubled AFC Leopards football club has received financial and material help from a sympathizer.
The once famous club is steeped in leadership wrangles after surviving relegation in the premier league following fours years out of top flight football.
Maliza Umaskini director Sadat Muhindi donated Kshs 170,000, 15 boots and 10 balls at [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
Nairobi January 17 2010. KENYA has officially pulled out of next month’s Africa Handball Club Championship in Cairo, Egypt, due to financial constraint.
Kenya Handball Federation (KHF) fixtures secretary Charles Omondi says local clubs, starved of cash, unanimously decided to skip the tournament.
“Because of the financial problems the federation and clubs are facing, we [...]
NEW YORK, USA, 13 January 2010 – Despite heavy damage to its own offices in Port-au-Prince, UNICEF is ready to provide immediate support to the victims of the unfolding humanitarian crisis following the earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday.
“While relief efforts have begun, communications are extremely difficult and accurate information is still scarce,” UNICEF Executive Director [...]
By Carolyne Gichuki
Fish catches at Lake Victoria have declined, due to increased population pressure on the resource, too many people exploiting the resource, use of illegal gears and climate chage affecting the ecology of the lake.
Today the people who’s livehood depend on the Lake have turned to sand mining from the lake beach region [...]
Project Focuses on Data Service Bureau and Product Development Support
MADISON, Wis.—The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided US$2.1 million in funding to World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) to help establish and test new financial data processing and product development capabilities for savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs), or credit unions, in Kenya.
The new two-year [...]
