A balloon of Google’s “Project Loon” to supply remote areas with Internet connections.
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Kenya’s new internet balloons could help to get more Kenyans online and drive new industry.
Trucks wait in line to enter Uganda in Malaba, a Western Kenyan border town. All truck drivers must take a COVID-19 test.
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The community’s response to the pandemic has been fragmented despite gestures of regional solidarity
A party agent listens to the radio as electoral officials confirm and tally votes from polling stations in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007.
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Radio stations with audiences at the grassroots have a key role to play in times of election violence.
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Kenya’s urban poor lack enough food and the little they can afford is often unsafe and of poor nutritional value.
City traffic on Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya.
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In independent Kenya, road renaming happened to erase the names of the colonisers and to celebrate the new heroes: Kenya’s political leaders and freedom fighters.
A member of the nursing staff at Chandaria Health Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, measures the temperatures of visiting patients.
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Most facilities prioritize COVID-19 cases. In addition, curfews are still in effect in Kenya, which affects the working hours of clinics providing hypertension care services.
Former President Mwai Kibaki [centre] smiles after being handed the new constitution document by former Attorney General, Amos Wako [right] in 2010.
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For democracy to work in Kenya the country needs good leadership. Politicians must uphold the constitution to infuse trust and confidence in state institutions.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (left), and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga
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The Building Bridges Initiative is best understood by recognising that Kenyan politics is fundamentally shaped by competition between political elites and their ethnic groups.
What South Africa’s West Coast might have looked like 5 million years ago. In the foreground, a giant wolverine feeds on a pig while chasing away a primitive hyena.
Maggie Newman, Geological Society of South Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand
The teeth and limb bones we studied help to understand the role and lifestyle of these species in extinct ecosystems.
A farmer carries farming tools to her sorghum field in the arid Turkana County, northern Kenya.
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A consistent, predictable and friendly policy environment can attract private sector investments in agriculture to drive transformation.
Kenyan miners have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the existing challenges facing artisanal and small-scale mining in Kenya.
The Mongu-Kalabo Road crosses the Barotse Floodplain in western Zambia.
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Road and rail construction is booming in sub-Saharan Africa, but the pandemic has brought a welcome pause for reflection.
On Bijilo Beach in the Gambia, there are no fruit sellers in sight.
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Developing countries that depend heavily on tourists need international support, and more sustainable offerings for the future.
Hands-on monitoring is key to fighting many plant diseases.
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Plant diseases require as much attention now as ever to ensure that food systems are in place in the next season. There are also serious implications for forestry and the environment more broadly.
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Online higher education can be a great lever for social change in refugee camps.
Parts of Kenya have flooded as a result of Lake Victoria’s rising levels.
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The flooding has affected water resources, agriculture and food security, health and sanitation, fisheries, and energy and infrastructure.
TV reporters prepare for a live broadcast during a strike by airline workers in Nairobi.
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Peace journalism is more than mediating or preventing conflict. It’s also about the dignity and agency of the affected populations.
Anopheles Stephensi, Sem.
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Mosquitoes that had Microsporidia MB - a tiny parasitic fungus - never became infected with malaria.
A group of men protest while pulling a cart carrying the body of Vitallis Ochilo Owino in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 4, 2020. Vitallis Ochilo Owino was allegedly beaten to death by police officers while walking in the streets after curfew hours.
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The level of accountability within police agencies in Kenya is very low. They operate with impunity, because they know they will get away with it.
A man pulls a cart through the early morning smog in Nairobi.
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We found that air pollution levels in Nairobi increased by 182% over the study period, Kampala by 162% and Addis Ababa by 62%.