The coal plant would be about 20km from Lamu town - a Unesco world heritage site.
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The court case highlighted that key environmental challenges were not adequately covered by the Environmental Impact Assessment
Higher education remains a significant challenge for refugees.
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Just 1% of refugees in the world are able to continue education beyond secondary school.
People gather to look at the debris from a building that collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2017.
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The more people come to a city, the more demand for buildings is amplified.This demand creates pressure from which a range of agencies, motivations and causes arise.
Some parents hide their children’s HIV status.
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Secrecy around the HIV-positive status of young children in school is denying them the care and support they need for a good start.
A Kenyan journalist has an altercation with a police officer.
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Although Kenyan media houses have various accountability systems in place, their implementation is weak and inconsistent.
Border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
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Kenya appears prepared for Ebola outbreaks, but a lot more can be done.
Henry Rotich - Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury
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Some areas of concern remain. These include the mobilisation of local resources, reduction of the fiscal deficit and stabilisation of the national debt.
People from non-Western cultures use different words to speak about mental health.
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The aim was to understand intense social problems that accompany people’s medical problems.
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Researchers around the world are working hard to find a vaccine that is safe and effective.
Botswana’s LGBTI community is celebrating the decriminalisation of gay sex.
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By placing less emphasis on public opinion, and questioning public morality as the basis of its decision, the latest High Court decision shows that times have indeed changed.
A male lion with a porcupine quill lodged in his cheek.
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The team found evidence of about 50 lions that had been injured or killed by porcupines since the 17th century.
Without proper assessment and evaluation, a university’s grants wheel can grind to a halt.
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Evaluation is a critical tool for decisions on improving performance. It also assures that African universities are getting value for money from grants, donations and the like.
Nairobi is one of the most congested cities in the world.
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Sustainable and efficient transportation is essential for cities, communities and individuals to thrive.
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Poor understanding can be put down to the content in Kenyan schools’ curricula.
A Kenyan LGBT activist campaigning for a change to the country’s Penal Code.
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The High Court’s ruling goes against the trend of greater liberalisation in a number of African countries.
Private security guard in Nairobi.
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There’s been a rise in partnerships, over the past 20 years, between private security companies and police units in Kenya
Binyavanga Wainaina.
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Binyavanga Wainana was a brilliant writer and sharp thinker, creative and unruly.
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge on his way to wining the London Marathon in April 2019.
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Many factors have been suggested to explain the dominance of Kenyan middle and long distance runners, and many have been disproved
Burnt shacks after a fire in a Mumbai slums. Adolescents are deeply affected by traumatic events in their lives.
The data suggest that boys experience as much disadvantage as girls.
Smoking is a threat to public health.
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Ghana is the latest country in Africa to mandate the use of pictures on cigarette packages to convey health warnings.