Day: October 15, 2024
Kericho Pupil Wins Prestigious First Lady’s Mazingira Award
Meet Joy Jerop Kibichii, a grade four pupil from Kericho Academy who received an award from First Lady Mama Rachael Ruto for emerging number one in the First Lady’s Mazingira Award (FLAMA) competitions in the spoken word category. The 10-year-old champion of conservation accompanied her teachers and fellow pupils to the FLAMA Awards ceremony in State House Nairobi during Mazingira
Clean energy campaign gathers momentum in Nakuru
The County Government of Nakuru has embarked on a promotional campaign to accelerate adoption of modern clean cooking technologies to mitigate the effects of climate change and help reduce rising cases of diseases occasioned by dirty fuels. This comes even as the County’s administration indicated that the public awareness campaign was a way of supporting the national government’s Clean Cooking
Kajiado Women Trained on Land and Property Rights
Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network (KELIN) has trained women in Kajiado on land and property rights in a bid to transform social norms regarding women rights. Caroline Oyumbo, a paralegal at KELIN noted that Maasai women do not have a say in matters land and properties in general and their main aim was to change this so that women
Imams want Tana clashes contained
The Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) wants the governments to expedite investigations to arrest perpetrators of clashes in Tana River County that has claimed at least 18 lives in a span of a week. The calls come after Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration Prof Kithure Kindiki in a gazette notice dated October 11, 2024, declared