A man flees from teargas fired by anti-riot police in Nairobi after Kenya’s 2017 elections.
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To predict - and prevent - election-related violence, it’s important to first understand the key drivers of conflict.
Livestock buyers and sellers should co-design markets to address common needs.
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A functioning market eases pressure on rangelands, lowers animal mortality, and stabilises prices.
Emilio Mwai Kibaki, the recently deceased third president of Kenya
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Kibaki gave Kenya’s higher education sector a free market capitalistic orientation, endearing him to the World Bank and the IMF
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Kibaki’s goals were to expand access to education, and to make universities more efficient and self-sustaining.
Kenya is expected to import 700,000 tonnes of maize for 2022/23.
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Changes in maize production could create complications for Kenya, sub-Saharan Africa’s major importer, because of its policy on genetically modified maize.
Mwai Kibaki.
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He will be remembered as the leader who plunged the country into unmitigated chaos
A child in the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
A Kenyan policeman stands next to a painted sign reading “keep peace stop violence” during protests in Nairobi in 2008.
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Every five years, underlying ethnic rivalries are rekindled through songs, words, euphemisms, epithets and slurs.
Flags of India and African countries at the 2015 India Africa Friendship Summit in New Delhi.
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A new book places the responsibility of African growth on its leaders, people, and civil society, while also recognising the role partners like India can play in achieving its goals.
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Development corridors have the potential to stimulate economies.
A woman breastfeeds her baby.
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Kenya wants parents to be able to make more informed choices about feeding their babies.
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500 million people live in 19 African countries deemed “water insecure”.
3D printing is an excellent match for smaller operators.
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3D printing doesn’t need high-volume centralised production and large inventory stocking.
William Ruto
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As an outlier in Kenya’s political power matrix, Ruto was elbowed out by the establishment. But he has somersaulted back by appealing directly to the masses.
A river flows through Nairobi’s Kibera slum. Communities should be engaged in environmental management to reduce mosquito breeding sites.
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The country’s urban centres where unvaccinated people live in crowed settlements are key risk areas.
Boda boda riders carry passengers at Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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The entire transport sector in Kenya is extremely chaotic and in need of urgent policy and legal interventions.
The destroyed main building of a school in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
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No state in the global community should have to earn Russia’s compliance with the law. If the rule of law is not respected, the entire global community becomes as vulnerable as Ukraine is now.
WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during a visit at Afrigen Formulation Facilities in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Moves by Moderna and BioNTech to make vaccines themselves in African countries signal that the companies aren’t considering licensing its technology to a third party for local manufacture.
A mural along Haile Selassie avenue in Nairobi, Kenya.
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It’s a huge cause for concern that, two years into the pandemic, the disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact.
Lolampa, a Turkana herder, with his goats and sheep.
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Uncertainty must be embraced and harnessed for the better because stability never lasts long.