Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (second left) and Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta (second right).
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The legacy of colonialism’s unfinished business has now migrated to the Indian Ocean.
Churchgoers in Nairobi who support gay rights lit candles ahead of the court ruling.
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Kenya’s LGBTI community will have to wait a while longer for the High Court’s ruling on whether it will decriminalise homosexual relationships.
Early education based on a child’s mother tongue gives them a head start in their literacy and language learning.
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Research shows that mother tongue teaching is the most ideal tool for early child education.
Choosing when to harvest as well as storage poses big problems for African farmers.
Once crops have been harvested, farmers experience wastage and loss of food all over Africa.
In 50 years, Kenya has experienced an overall decline in under 5 mortality.
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Only half of Kenya’s 47 counties achieved the 2000 goal on reducing child mortality
Kenya poverty.
Millions of people in Kenya still face poverty. But there's hope.
There is a balance to be struck between data privacy and citizens’ safety.
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Kenya needs to tread carefully. It must avoid placing the country’s security ahead of people’s privacy rights.
When girls in Kenya fall pregnant, they must often deal with stigma, fear and shame.
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Mental health care for teen mothers is not part of routine health facilities in Nairobi’s informal settlements.
Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup.
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Gene sequences can be manipulated to prevent certain diseases and improve public health.
Early childhood education can equip kids for later learning.
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Cost-effective, scaleable early childhood development and education programmes can make a huge difference.
Kenya’s tourism industry is heavily focused on its beaches and wildlife.
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Each terror attack has a different impact on tourism and this is influenced by variables, like the type of facilities targeted
Many children got burn injuries because of poor housing.
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Research found that burns were most common among children under five years.
Kenyan police continue security measures a day after the terror attack in Nairobi.
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Kenya needs to disseminate and implement intelligence so that it can effectively prevent and counter future terror attempts.
People had to run for cover during the exchange of fire between al-Shabaab and Kenyan security forces.
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Kenya has done a great deal to prevent and manage terror attacks but there are still many problems that need to be addressed.
Evacuations during the Riverside terror attack in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Foreign press took away the dignity from victims killed in the Nairobi terror attacks by publishing their pictures.
Al-Shabaab’s first attack on Kenyan soil was in 2008. Since then the Kenyan government has responded with force.
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Kenya is attacked far more than Ethiopia or other eastern African states by al-Shabaab militants.
People can suffer terrible consequences from being bitten by sand fleas.
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Tungiasis, a disease caused by fleas, is neglected and needs action in sub-Saharan Africa.
President Xi Jinping at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation 2018.
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Too many African countries believe Beijing when they are told in negotiations that they must take it or leave it.
Solar panels in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
Medium-scale African farmers are relatively wealthy and influential.
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Medium-scale farms are an important driver of agricultural and rural transformation in much of Africa.