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31Mar

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local news

Kenya announces ban on feeding bottles

The Ministry of Health has announced the ban on feeding bottles from May 28. This comes after Parliament recently passed into law the Breast Milk Supplements (BMS) Regulation and Control Act of 2012 that listed the bottles used for feeding infants as designated products, to mean items that are within the scope of regulation by the law. While addressing delegates at the country’s first ever National Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Symposium, organised by the ministry, Ms Esther Mogusu, the principal nutrition and dietetics officer at Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS), praised the government’s position and maintained that feeding bottles do more harm than good. The reason they are regulated is whatever content is fed (to a baby) using bottles is not breast milk, bu...

Moses Kuria Before IEBC Over 2017 Vote Rigging Claim

30Mar

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Politics

Moses Kuria Before IEBC Over 2017 Vote Rigging Claim

The Gatundu South Member of Parliament sensationally claimed that he and a host of other Jubilee legislature rigging the 2017 presidential election in favour of President Uhuru Kenyatta He was summoned by the IEBC Electoral Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee for grilling and examination. On March 15, Kuria said he and other political leaders helped President Uhuru Kenyatta secure victory in both elections through dubious means.

30Mar

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International news

Five killed in latest attack in Israel

Five people have been shot dead on the outskirts of Tel Aviv in Israel, medics say, in the third deadly attack of its kind within a week. It happened in Bnei Brak, one of the country's most populous ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas. The gunman was shot dead by police, a paramedic at the scene said. At least five killed in shooting in central Israel A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire in a crowded city in central Israel late Tuesday, methodically gunning down victims as he killed at least five people in the second mass shooting rampage this week. The shooter was killed by police. (March 29) Five people have been shot dead on the outskirts of Tel Aviv in Israel, medics say, in the third deadly attack of its kind within a week. It happened in Bnei Brak, one of the count...

Expect heavy rains in several parts of the country, says MET

29Mar

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Expect heavy rains in several parts of the country, says MET

Several parts of the country are expected to receive rainfall in the next two months, the Met department has said. Isolated storms are likely to occur over some parts of the Highlands West of the Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Basin, the Central and South Rift Valley, the Highlands East of the Rift Valley, the Coast and the Southeastern lowlands. The forecast shows high chances of a strong rainy season up to May in many parts of the country However, rainfall intensities are expected to reduce during the second half of the forecast period. Mombasa, Eldoret, Nakuru, will experience sunny intervals while Nyeri, Marsabit, Kisumu, Nairobi will experience sunny and rainy intervals this week. Both daytime temperatures and nighttime temperatures are lik...

28Mar

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KCPE to be released today

KCPE results are to be released today at 11 am, Education CS George Magoha has said. Magoha is currently briefing President Uhuru Kenyatta before he makes the results public. The candidates can get the results by sending their index numbers to code 20076. Some 1.2 million candidates sat their 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams this year. This year the council registered 1,225,507 candidates in 28,316 KCPE examination centres as compared to 1,191,752 candidates in 28,467 centres in 2020. This reflects an increase of 33,755 representing 2.75 per cent. This comes even as the marking of KCSE exams begins across the country. The exam enters the third and final week. A number of teachers who will be marking English and Mathematics will be settled at their...

Suspected Fraudster Arrested For Allegedly defrauding Investors Millions of shillings.

23Mar

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Suspected Fraudster Arrested For Allegedly defrauding Investors Millions of shillings.

serial fraudster has been apprehended for allegedly defrauding Kenyans and foreigners out of tens of millions of shillings while posing as a senior procurement officer in various government ministries. The suspect, identified as David Ambuku alias General, is accused of fabricating fake tender documents and local purchase orders in order to persuade bidders and potential suppliers that they will be awarded lucrative contracts. Ambuku was apprehended on Tuesday morning, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), after attempting to flee by plunging into a water tank at his home in Kimathi estate along Jogoo road. Detectives were following leads to a fraud case in which two salespeople were allegedly duped out of Ksh.47 million by Ambuku, which led them to h...

HRW Urges Uganda To Shut Illegal Detention Sites Used For Torture

22Mar

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HRW Urges Uganda To Shut Illegal Detention Sites Used For Torture

Uganda's government must stop using illegal detention centres as a weapon against dissidents and close the facilities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday in a report documenting the prevalence of torture at the clandestine sites. The report featured interviews with 51 people, including 34 former detainees and eyewitnesses to abductions, who described a litany of abuses at the hands of police, army officials and Uganda's domestic intelligence agency, the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), between April 2019 and November 2021. The crackdown reached fever pitch during the two months leading up to and following Uganda's January 2021 general elections, which saw government critics, opposition politicians and protesters unlawfully detained and forcibly disappeared. In many ca...

Daddy Yankee Announces He’s Retiring From Music

22Mar

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Entertainment

Daddy Yankee Announces He’s Retiring From Music

Daddy Yankee, one of reggaeton's biggest names, announced Sunday he's retiring after 32 years in the music industry. "This race, which has been a marathon, finally sees the finish line. Now, I am going to enjoy what all of you have given me," the singer said in a video statement posted to YouTube. "People say that I made this genre worldwide, but it was you who gave me the key to open the doors to make it the biggest in the world." He will bid farewell to his fans with one last tour and album, "Legendaddy," out on March 24. "I'll give you all the styles that have defined me on one album. 'Legendaddy' -- it's fight, it's party, it's war, it's romance," the singer explained. n his extensive career, Daddy Yankee sold more than 30 million records. In 2017, Yankee collaborat...

Plane Carrying 133 Crashes In China, Casualties Unknown

21Mar

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International news

Plane Carrying 133 Crashes In China, Casualties Unknown

A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 133 people has crashed in southwest China with an unknown number of casualties, state broadcaster CCTV reported Monday. The Boeing 737 plane crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city, Guangxi region and "caused a mountain fire", CCTV said, adding that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. The report added that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. CCTV said a "China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 plane carrying 133 people has crashed in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi, and caused a mountain fire." Local media reported that China Eastern flight MU5735 had not arrived at its scheduled destination in Guangzhou after it took off from the city of Kunming shortly after 1:00 pm (0500 GMT) Monday, citing airport staff. There wa...

Kenya ranked the 27th unhappiest country in a new global happiness report.

21Mar

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Kenya ranked the 27th unhappiest country in a new global happiness report.

Kenya has been ranked the 27th unhappiest country in a new global happiness report. Kenya ranks 119th out of 146 countries in the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network's 2022 World Happiness Report. Kenyan respondents cited perceived government corruption as the main source of their dissatisfaction, according to the report. This is a slight decrease from last year's happiness index, which ranked the country 121st out of 149 countries. Kenya was ranked 23rd in Africa, behind Uganda, which led the East African Community (EAC) and was ranked 117th worldwide. Tanzania is ranked 139th out of 146 countries, while Ethiopia is ranked 131st. Rwanda is the most unhappy country in the EAC, according to the study, coming at the bottom 4 on the global index, just before Zi...