Riot police secure a supermarket in downtown Nairobi that was looted and vandalised during the anti-tax protests.
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There is a real prospect of the government missing its tax revenue target.
Les jeunes Kenyans ont été à l'origine des manifestations qui ont eu lieu dans tout le pays.
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La lenteur de la croissance économique du Kenya, l'importance de la population de jeunes instruits et les possibilités d'emploi limitées sont parmi les facteurs qui ont donné lieu aux manifestations.
Young Kenyans drove the protests across the country.
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Kenya’s slow economic growth, large educated youth population and limited job opportunities are some of the factors that gave rise to the protests.
Kenyan police officers manhandle a protestor on June 25, 2024.
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Kenya’s police have a long history of using excessive force.
Kenyan doctors protest outside the health ministry in Nairobi in April 2024, four weeks into a strike.
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Doctors are demanding the implementation of a 2017 agreement to improve working conditions.
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A well governed financial system is effectively supervised by the central bank.
Social sciences play a key role in preventing zoonotic diseases from spreading to people from animals.
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Pandemics often have animal origins, so prevention is often dominated by health and veterinary sciences. However, social sciences’ role in understanding human behaviour is also crucial to prevention.
The Nairobi skyline.
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The winds passing over Kenya flow in waves and periodically bring hot weather, the kind that has prevailed recently across east Africa.
Mpho Molutsi, de la Children’s Radio Foundation, lors d'une émission en direct à Johannesburg.
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Avec une histoire politique tumultueuse, la radio est aujourd'hui la première source d'information en Afrique.
Mpho Molutsi from the Children’s Radio Foundation during a live community broadcast in Johannesburg.
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With a dramatic political history, radio is today the number one source of news in Africa.
L'action en faveur du climat permettra de réduire la pollution de l'air en Afrique.
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L'Afrique peut limiter l'impact du climat sur la santé en prenant 37 mesures approuvées par les ministres de l'environnement.
Climate action will check air pollution in Africa.
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Africa can check climate impact on health by taking 37 actions endorsed by environment ministers.
Mosquitoes are the primary medium for contracting dengue.
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The Sahel region is grappling with an outbreak of the deadly mosquito-borne disease.
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Ruto’s administration continues to borrow, just like the previous regime.
People march with a banner that reads in Spanish ‘Stop the adjustment, out with the IMF,’ in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 9, 2023.
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The conditions placed on countries borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund have further disadvantaged these countries economically.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest level of pension savings in the world.
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The number of elderly people in need of support in Africa is projected to grow at annual rates above 3% up to 2050.
A shopper risks arrest in Nakuru, Kenya, for carrying groceries in banned plastic bags in 2022.
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No scientific monitoring was put in place to track the environmental benefits of banning plastic carrier bags.
Malaria transmission in Kenya has been largely limited to the coast and western parts of the country.
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This mosquito spreads very fast to new areas and can adapt to various climatic conditions, unlike the non-invasive malaria vectors.
There are fears that Kenya’s debt has been funding mostly government salaries.
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William Ruto is determined to reduce public debt by collecting more taxes to pay for what the country needs.
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Harmonising tariffs and standards is a big step.