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Backlash in Kenya over livestock vaccines
|Published 12:00 PM ET, Thursday January 30, 2025| Kenya’s recent initiative to vaccinate 22 million cattle and 50 million sheep and goats has sparked significant debate among stakeholders. The government asserts that this mass vaccination campaign aims to control diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and Peste des Petits Ruminants ...Nigeria begins exporting to Kenya under key African trade agreement
Published 7:35 PM ET, Saturday January 25, 2025 Nigeria has started exporting goods to Kenya under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), marking a significant milestone in intra-African trade. This move aligns with the agreement’s goal of fostering economic integration, increasing trade among African countries, and reducing dependence on ...Kenya sends 217 more police to Haiti to help fight armed gangs
Published 12:25 PM ET, Sunday January 19, 2025 NAIROBI:Â Kenya has taken another significant step in its commitment to combat gang violence in Haiti by sending an additional 217 police officers. This move comes as part of an international effort to stabilize the Caribbean nation, which has been grappling with a ...Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim ...
Story by Lesley Stahl, Aliza Chasan, Shachar Bar-On, Jinsol Jung | CBSNews Published 11:10 AM ET, Monday November 25, 2024 Being overworked, underpaid, and ill-treated is not what Kenyan workers had in mind when they were lured by U.S. companies with jobs in AI.Kenyan civil rights activist Nerima Wako-Ojiwa said the workers’ ...Kenya saves $10 Million annually from Ethiopian electricity imports
Story by Muluken Yewondwossen | Capital Published 12:45 PM ET, Tuesday November 12, 2024 | Kenya saved USD 10 million in a single year due to electricity supplies from neighboring Ethiopia. Since late 2022, Kenya has been tapping into 200MW of renewable energy through a 1,045 km High Voltage Direct ...Kenyan Democrats are worried about what the next four years would bring following Trump’s victory ...
Published 3:00 PM EST, Wednesday November 6, 2024 | Nairobi: Members of Democrats Abroad in Kenya had been waiting for U.S. election results in the capital’s Westlands area, hoping for a blue victory. But disappointment began to set in as it started to become clear that Trump is winning the presidential ...Ex-Harambee Stars and Gor Mahia captain Austin Oduor Origi dies
Former Harambee Star and Gor Mahia Captain Austin Oduor Origi/HANDOUT October 16, 2024 | 03:50 PM ET | Nairobi:Â Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Performance and Delivery Management in the Executive Office of the President of Kenya Eliud Owalo announced the death of Kenyan legendary footballer Austin Oduor, popularly ...President Ruto praises Kenyan police force on visit to Haiti
September 23, 2024 | 11:25 AM ET | On Saturday, September 21, during his visit to the Mission base in Clercine, President William Ruto, during an exchange with Kenyan police officers from the Mission in support of the Haitian National Police (PNH), joked, “Congratulations… I have been told by commander ...Germany signs agreement with Kenya to bring in skilled workers and plug labor market gaps
The agreement was signed by German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Kenyan’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi in a ceremony at the chancellery in Berlin on Friday as Scholz and Ruto stood behind them. By The Associated Press September 13, 2024 | 2:30 PM | BERLIN — German and Kenyan officials ...Kenyan police deployed to Haiti haven’t received full promised salary in two months
Kenyan police patrol an area near the international airport as a man holds a sign with a welcome message and a plea for jobs, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 3, 2024. By Larry Madowo and Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN August 27, 2024  Hundreds of Kenyan police officers leading an international policing force in Haiti have ...