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Ms Abdiwahab not only represents women but also the marginalised communities of Northern Kenya, where the party enjoys a massive following.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
Ruth First , in full Heloise Ruth First (born May 4, 1925, Johannesburg, South Africa—died August 17, 1982, Maputo, Mozambique), South African activist, scholar, and journalist known for her relentless opposition to South Africa’s discriminatory policy of apartheid. In 1982 she was assassinated while living in exile.
First was the daughter of Latvian Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda First, who were founding members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA); First herself would also become active in the party as she grew older. In 1946 she received a bachelor’s degree in social studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. While there, she organized the Federation of Progressive Students with Ismail Meer, Joe Slovo (her future husband), Yusuf Dadoo, J.N. Singh, and others, creating a radical multiracial student organization that opposed apartheid. From 1947 First worked for the progressive newspaper The Guardian, specializing in exposés of black labour conditions. In 1949 she married Slovo, and by 1954 they had three daughters.
After CPSA was banned (an apartheid-era legal action that was used to suppress organizations and publications and severely restrict the activities of a person) by the South African government in 1950, First was involved in organizing its successor, the underground South African Communist Party (SACP), which emerged in 1953. That same year she also was involved in the founding of the Congress of Democrats, the white wing of the Congress Alliance, a multiracial group of organizations that opposed apartheid. She edited the journal Fighting Talk, which supported the alliance. First also worked on drafting the alliance’s renowned Freedom Charter, which called for nonracial social democracy in South Africa, but she was unable to attend the Congress of the People gathering held in 1955, where the document was approved, because of her banning order—one of several such orders First was subjected to while living in South Africa. In 1956 First and her husband, along with Albert
Mudavadi and Wetang’ula said the push for law reforms should not be used an excuse to postpone the 2022 general elections.
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Kofi Awoonor , original name George Kofi Awoonor Williams (born March 13, 1935, Weta, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died September 21, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya), Ghanaian novelist and poet whose verse has been widely translated and anthologized.
After graduating (1960) from the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana, Legon), Awoonor studied at University College, London (M.A., 1970), and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D., 1972), where he remained on the faculty until he returned to Ghana (1975) to teach at the University of Cape Coast. He also lectured in English and African literature at the University of Ghana, directed the Ghana Film Corporation, founded the Ghana Playhouse, and served as an editor of the literary journal Okyeame and as an associate editor of Transition. In the early 1970s he served as chairman of the department of comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He returned to Ghana in August 1975 to teach at the University College of Cape Coast, but that December he was arrested on charges of harbouring an army officer accused of attempting a government coup. He was found guilty, but his sentence was remitted in October 1976, and he resumed teaching. He later served as Ghana’s ambassador to Brazil (1984–88), Cuba (1988–90), and the United Nations (1990–94).
Awoonor sought to incorporate African vernacular traditions—notably the dirge song tradition of the Ewe people—into modern poetic form. His major themes—Christianity, exile, and death important among them—are enlarged from poem to poem by repetition of key lines and phrases and by use of extended rhythms. Each poem in Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964), for example, records a single moment in a larger pattern of recognition and rediscovery. Awoonor’s subsequent volumes of poetry include Night of My Blood (1971), Ride Me, Memory (1973), The House by the Sea (1978), and Latin American and Caribbean Notebook (1992). His collected poems (through 1985) were published in Until
Wangari Maathai , in full Wangari Muta Maathai (born April 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya—died September 25, 2011, Nairobi), Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.
The World Health Organization Africa regional head warns that a spike likely to result in the wake of improved and increased testing.
Whiles the figures remain very low in a number of countries, quite a sizeable number has passed the 100 mark with only a handful in the 1000+ bracket – South Africa, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco,Cameroon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Djibouti and Nigeria.
South Africa one of Africa’s most impacted country has been praised by some analysts for their dedication to mass and intensive testing which an African Union Centers for Disease Control, CDC, official has asked that all countries need to scale up if the magnitude of infection is to be ascertained.
The new entrants between April 22 and May 8 were: Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Chad, Benin and Uganda.
All figures valid as of May 8 at 07:00 GMT
Major African stats: May 8 at 6:00 GMT:
\t
\t\tConfirmed cases = 54,083
\t\tNumber of deaths = 2,073
\t\tRecoveries = 18,412
\t\tInfected countries = 53
\t\tVirus-free countries = 1 (Lesotho)
North Africa
\t\tAlgeria – 5,182
\t\tEgypt – 7,981
\t\tMorocco – 5,548
\t\tTunisia – 998
West Africa
\t\tBurkina Faso – 736
\t\tGhana – 3,091
\t\tGuinea – 1,927
\t\tIvory Coast – 1,571
\t\tMali – 650
\t\tNiger – 781
\t\tNigeria- 3,526
\t\tSenegal – 1,492
\t\tLiberia – 189
\t\tSierra Leone – 231
\t\tTogo – 135
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 564
\t\tCape Verde – 218
\t\tBenin – 140
Central Africa
\t\tCameroon – 2,267
\t\tDR Congo – 897
\t\tCongo Republic – 274
\t\tGabon – 504
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 439
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 187
\t\tChad – 253
East Africa
\t\tDjibouti – 1,133
\t\tKenya – 607
\t\tMauritius – 332
\t\tRwanda – 271
\t\tTanzania – 480
\t\tSomalia – 928
\t\tEthiopia – 191
\t\tSudan – 930
\t\tUganda – 101
Southern Africa
\t\tSouth Africa – 8,232
\t\tMadagascar – 193
\t\tZambia – 153
\t\tEswatini – 153
\tVirus-free = Lesotho
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May 10: 239 cases, Abiy appreciates US support
\tSunday May 10 new cases were 29 raising the total national tally to 239.
May 7: Tigray’s first cases takes tally to 191
\tEthiopia’s northern Tigray region recorded four cases of COVID-19, the first in the region.
May 6: Record 17 new cases take case count to 162
\tEthiopia recorded its highest single-day spike with 17 new cases confirmed today, it brings the national tally to 162.
May 1: Ethiopia’s recoveries passes active cases
\tEthiopia recorded two new cases in over 900 tests run as at close of day April 30.
April 23: Tigray region relaxes state of emergency
\tNorthern Tigray regional state, the first to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency have announced a relaxing of the measure, the regional information outfit reported.
IMMINENT CHANGES
The meeting, which is said to have the blessings of President Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, also discussed imminent changes in the leadership at the National Assembly, revival of stalled projects, the challenges in the sugar and maize sectors and appointment of the members of the community to the government.
While the lawmakers tasked Mr Oparanya to provide political leadership, they prevailed upon the CS to ensure the interests of the community in government are secured.
Mr Wamalwa is also supposed to ensure all stalled projects in the region are completed, take deliberate steps to ensure the government waives debts in ailing public sugar mills and that maize farmers are cushioned from cartels in the fertiliser supply chain and with regard to high taxation.
Mr Oparanya, confirming the meeting took place, said they are preparing for another to be held today, which will bring together the MPs, senators and governors from the region, even as he promised to ensure the interests of the community are secured in the government.
The hastily convened meeting took place just hours after Mr Mudavadi, in an interview with a local newspaper, ruled out any possibility of working with President Kenyatta in any political deal.
revolt
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowes 1852 novel, Uncle Toms Cabin.[1] The term Uncle Tom is also used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person is aware of their own lower-class status based on race. However, the use of the epithet is the result of later works derived from the original novel, and does not reflect Mrs. Stowes actual depiction of Uncle Tom himself.
At the time of the novels initial publication in 1851, Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows; Stowes melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for white audiences by portraying Tom as a Jesus-Christ-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because he refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who had escaped from slavery.[2] [3] Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Toms passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery.[2]
The novel was both influential and commercially successful, published as a serial from 1851 to 1852 and as a book from 1852 onward.[2] [3] An estimated 500,000 copies had sold worldwide by 1853, including unauthorized reprints.[4] Senator Charles Sumner credited Uncle Toms Cabin for the election of Abraham Lincoln, an opinion that is later echoed in the apocryphal story of Lincoln greeting Stowe with the quip, So youre the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! (See American Civil War.)[2] [5] Frederick Douglass praised the novel as a flash to light a million camp fires in front of the embattled hosts of slavery.[2] Despite Douglasss enthusiasm, an anonymous 1852 reviewer for William Lloyd Garrisons publication The Liberator suspected a racial double standard in the idealization of Uncle Tom:
Uncle Toms character is sketched with great power and rare religious perception. It triumphantly exemplifies the nature, tendency, and results of Christian non-resistance.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1896 with a separate but equal status for African Americans in railroad cars. Public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War. This principle was extended to public facilities and transportation, including segregated cars on interstate trains and, later, buses. Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those which were then available to European Americans; sometimes they did not exist at all. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages. De jure segregation existed mainly in the Southern states, while Northern segregation was generally de facto—patterns of housing segregation enforced by private covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory labor union practices. Jim Crow was a pejorative expression meaning Negro.
Jim Crow laws—sometimes, as in Florida, part of state constitutions—mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was already segregated. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southerner, initiated segregation of federal workplaces at the request of southern Cabinet members in 1913.
These Jim Crow laws revived principles of the 1865 and 1866 Black Codes, which had previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. Segregation of public (state-sponsored) schools was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in
KATHY SLEDGE will release her much anticipated new single titled KEEP IT MOVIN’ on iTunes and all digital platforms on December 1. The song was first released as an Aristofreeks feat. Kathy Sledge EDM single on Pacific Electronic Music last Fall, hitting #2 on the Billboard Club chart. The GRAMMY® nominated artist collaborated with producer/duo Aristofreeks on the tune in which she co-wrote with Max Martire, and released it to the club and EDM festival circuit. Now, the original radio mix of the song will be available to fans worldwide.
Additionally, a new concert tour titled “Kathy Sledge Presents: My Sisters and Me” featuring KathySledge, Deniece Williams, Karyn White and CeCe Peniston, will launch on November 14 at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut (additional dates to be announced). More than a concert, this “sisterhood” experience unites the legendary artists in story and song – connecting with the audience both individually on stage, as well as a group.
Kathy recorded KEEP IT MOVIN’ after releasing the EDM-powered remake of WE ARE FAMILY with Aristofreeks (Max Martire and Shanti Matkin) in 2013. With the EDM release of KEEP IT MOVIN’, Kathy received the “Outstanding Contribution Award” at the 2013 Ibiza DJ Awards. Says Kathy, “There is a true sense of liberation through the lyrics of Keep it Movin.’ My personal catharsis has become a journey for many…a ‘Mantra in Motion.”
Kathy has also been partnering with talented songwriters and producers in both rock and urban genres for studio projects that span elements of R&B, rock and EDM; and launched the critically acclaimed showThe Brighter Side of Day: A Tribute to Billie Holiday. She also recently appeared on BET’s “Black Girls Rock,” where she performed in front of First Lady Michelle Obama, and other notables; and at the UNESCO Center for Peace’s first Nelson Mandela International Birthday Celebration.
The GRAMMY® nominated artist’s career includes chart-topping hits and platinum albums spanning several genres of popular music as a solo artist, and with her
Kenya is rolling out the red carpet for Hollywood.
A group of senior officials in the Kenya government traveled from Nairobi to Los Angeles last week on a mission to promote more filming in the East Africa country.
Kenya has landed its share of high-profile movie credits, most famously Sydney Pollack’s 1985 romantic epic “Out of Africa,” with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. More recent films that have shot in Kenya include the 2005 Oscar-winning thriller “The Constant Gardener” with Ralph Fiennes.
But spurred on by South Africa’s growing film sector, the country is eager to win more of Hollywood’s business.
At a luncheon last week at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, senior government officials and business leaders from Kenya touted a new effort to boost the country’s film industry.
“We’re bigger, better and with more incentives — we’re ready for business in the film sector,” said Hassan Wario, Kenya’s Cabinet secretary for sports, culture and arts, at the luncheon. “We say, ‘Forget South Africa and welcome to Kenya.”
Wario and his colleagues said the country is poised to enact new incentives that would provide up to a 32% rebate to filmmakers. South Africa offers a 25% reduction in qualified film expenses for foreign productions.
Filmmakers also would be exempt from paying taxes on capital expenditures. Fees for filming in national parks also would be waived.
The proposed incentives will be introduced in a finance bill in June and are fully supported by President Uhuru Kenyatta, said Kenya Film Commission Chairman Chris Foot.
He touted other advantages, such as low-cost labor and the country’s diverse geography and wildlife.
“We’re very fortunate that we’ve got everything from waterfalls to beaches,” Foot said. “We have snow, we’ve got deserts, tropical rain forests…. We’re the only country in Africa which represents every single African culture.”
Foot spoke to an audience that included executives from CBS, Disney, Lionsgate and the talent agency UTA. ___
Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
There are now more than over 60,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when.
Lesotho is the country holding out as of May 12.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 1,000 mark
Major African stats: May 12 at 7:00 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 66,319
\t\tNumber of deaths = 2,344
\t\tRecoveries = 23,143
Countries in alphabetical order
\t\tAlgeria – 5,891
\t\tAngola – 45
\t\tBenin – 319
\t\tBotswana – 24
\t\tBurkina Faso – 760
\t\tBurundi – 15
\t\tCameroon – 2,689
\t\tCape Verde – 260
\t\tCentral African Republic – 143
\t\tChad – 322
\t\tComoros – 11
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 333
\t\tDR Congo – 1,024
\t\tDjibouti – 1,227
\t\tEgypt – 9,746
\t\tEritrea – 39
\t\tEswatini – 175
\t\tEthiopia – 250
\t\tGabon – 802
\t\t(The) Gambia – 22
\t\tGhana – 4,700
\t\tGuinea – 2,146
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 761
\t\tIvory Coast – 1,730
\t\tKenya – 700
\t\tLesotho – 0
\t\tLiberia – 211
\t\tLibya – 64
\t\tMadagascar – 186
\t\tMalawi – 57
\t\tMali – 712
\t\tMauritania – 8
\t\tMorocco – 6,281
\t\tMozambique – 103
\t\tNamibia – 16
\t\tNiger – 832
\t\tNigeria- 4,641
\t\tRwanda – 285
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 208
\t\tSenegal – 1,886
\t\tSeychelles – 11
\t\tSierra Leone – 338
\t\tSomalia – 1,089
\t\tSouth Africa – 10,652
\t\tSouth Sudan – 156
\t\tSudan – 1,526
\t\tTanzania – 509
\t\tTogo – 181
\t\tTunisia – 1,032
\t\tUganda – 121
\t\tZambia – 267
\t\tZimbabwe – 36
Idi Amin , in full Idi Amin Dada Oumee (born 1924/25, Koboko, Uganda—died August 16, 2003, Jiddah, Saudi Arabia), military officer and president (1971–79) of Uganda whose regime was noted for the sheer scale of its brutality.
A member of the small Kakwa ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, Amin had little formal education and joined the King’s African Rifles of the British colonial army in 1946 as an assistant cook. (Although he claimed to have fought in Burma [Myanmar] during World War II, his military records show that his service began in 1946.) He quickly rose through the ranks, and he served in the British action against the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya (1952–56). Amin was one of the few Ugandan soldiers elevated to officer rank before Ugandan independence in 1962, and he became closely associated with the new nation’s prime minister and president, Milton Obote. He was made chief of the army and air force (1966–70). Conflict with Obote arose, however, and on January 25, 1971, Amin staged a successful military coup. He became president and chief of the armed forces in 1971, field marshal in 1975, and life president in 1976.
Amin ruled directly, shunning the delegation of power. He was noted for his abrupt changes of mood, from buffoonery to shrewdness, from gentleness to tyranny. He was often extreme in his nationalism. He expelled all Asians from Uganda in 1972, an action that led to the breakdown of Uganda’s economy, and he publicly insulted Great Britain and the United States as well as numerous world leaders. A Muslim, he reversed Uganda’s amicable relations with Israel and befriended Libya and the Palestinians; in July 1976 he was personally involved in the hijacking of a French airliner to Entebbe (see Entebbe raid). He also took tribalism, a long-standing problem in Uganda, to its extreme by allegedly ordering the persecution of Acholi, Lango, and other ethnic groups. Amin came to be known as the “Butcher of Uganda” for his brutality, and it is believed that some 300,000 people were killed and countless
Father Divine (c. 1876 – September 10, 1965), also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an African American spiritual leader[2] from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was also known as the Messenger early in his life. He founded the International Peace Mission movement, formulated its doctrine, and oversaw its growth from a small and predominantly black congregation into a multiracial and international church.
Father Divine claimed to be God.[3] He made numerous contributions toward his followers economic independence and racial equality. He was a contemporary of other religious leaders such as Daddy Grace, Charles Harrison Mason, Noble Drew Ali and James F. Jones (also known as Prophet Jones).
Little is known about Father Divines early life, or even his real given name. Father Divine and the Peace Movement he started did not keep many records. Father Divine himself declined several offers to write his biography, saying that the history of God would not be useful in mortal terms. He also refused to acknowledge relationship to any family. Newspapers in the 1930s had to dig up his probable given name: George Baker. (This name is not recognized by the Library of Congress, and from 1979, there is no further use of that name as a heading for Father Divine in libraries catalogs.)[4] Federal Bureau of Investigation files record his name as George Baker alias God.[5]
In 1936 Eliza Mayfield claimed to be Father Divines mother. She stated that his real name was Frederick Edwards from Hendersonville, North Carolina, and had abandoned a wife and five children, although Mayfield offered no proof and claimed to not remember his fathers name. (Father Divine replied that God has no Mother.)[3]
Father Divines childhood remains a contentious point. Some, especially earlier researchers, suppose that he was born in the Deep South, most likely in Georgia, as the son of sharecroppers. Newer research by Jill Watts, based on census data, finds evidence for a
April 12: Cases hit 5,127; gold-rich Obuasi new hotspot
\tGhana’s case statistics passed the 5,000 mark after 427 new cases were recorded according to head of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Aboagye.
Ghana has undertaken 160,501 tests since the outbreak, a figure the president touted as highest per million people than any other country in Africa.
May 10: 4,263 cases, Accra prison ‘infected’
\tGhana’s case statistics as of close of day May 9 stood at 3,263 according tallies released by the health service.
May 9: 900+ new cases, tally hits 4,012
\tGhana returned to most impacted West African country after authorities disclosed a record one-day increase of over 900 cases late Friday.
May 7: 3,091 cases, police rolls out mass tests
\tGhana’s case statistics stood at 3,091 in the latest tallies released early Thursday by the Ghana Health Service.
Take the government’s modelling of COVID’s likely trajectory in South Africa.
Government statistics are publicly available according to the number of tests, cases diagnosed, recoveries and deaths.
As Professor Landon Myer, of the University of Cape Town‘s school of public health and family medicine, told the Sunday Times an interview, “If there is one massive criticism government, it is a lack of transparency … and details of the mathematical models they are using.
In both the United States Kingdom and in the United Kingdom, where the ethnicity of COVID victims is recorded and made publicly available, it has been discovered that African-Americans and people of so-called Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) origin are over-represented in the infection and mortality figures.
Speculatively, perhaps there is a genetic resilience among African people to COVID, if one considers the admittedly early trajectory of the disease on the continent.
Residents of Bura in Tana River County have opposed plans to evacuate them to safety, saying the government had not shown them alternative land on which to settle.
Ms Hussein said the government was fond of playing with their lives by making tough announcements and warned that the people would not be fooled easily this time round.
The locals, who had earlier been settled through a government initiative that saw the Kenya Red Cross Society build houses for them, were forced to move by raging flood waters.
Meanwhile, Tana River Governor Dhadho Godhana has appealed to the national government to support his administration in coming up with a lasting solution to the floods menace.
Mr Godhana said the government's priorities were misplaced and did not focus on solving any problems but simply making statements on the residents' plight.
Kenya has shut its borders with Somalia and Tanzania as the country strives to stem further spread of the coronavirus.
In a televised address to the nation on Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta said he was imposing more measures after it emerged that some of the cases had crossed the border from Tanzania and Somalia.
The President also announced that the number of Covid-19 cases in the country had risen to 830 after 49 more people tested positive.
\"As of yesterday [Friday], the cases across the border were distributed as follows, Wajir 14, Isebania 10, Namanga 16, Lungalunga 2 and Loitoktok 1,\" Kenyatta said, referring to border towns near Tanzania.
Tanzania later claimed the meeting was for the Northern Corridor, a reference to countries that mainly import goods through Kenya's Port of Mombasa.
Nairobi — The Sport, Arts and Social Development Fund has availed Sh30m that will go towards cushioning vulnerable sports people whose income has been hugely affected by the cancellations of sports events occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed has told Capital Sport that the money will be directly channeled to the vulnerable group of athletes as they look to remain afloat during this tough period.
CS Amina has in the meantime called on more partners and sponsors to come out and help athletes remain afloat at this difficult time even as they await news on the resumption of various sports seasons.
Last week, the CS partnered with the Eliud Kipchoge Foundation with the marathon world record holder distributing foodstuff and essential materials to over 1,500 families in the North Rift while the two also earmarked more than 900 vulnerable groups which they intend to keep supporting.
Eliud has been designated UNESCO goodwill ambassador for sports integrity and values and it's clear that his service to humanity goes beyond international reputation,\" CS Amina commented.
Uhuru Kenyatta , in full Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born October 26, 1961, Nairobi, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who held several government posts before being elected president of Kenya in 2013.
The son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president, Uhuru was raised in a wealthy and politically powerful Kikuyu family. He attended St. Mary’s School in Nairobi, where he played as a winger for the school’s rugby team. He then went on to study political science and economics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. After his return to Kenya, he started a horticultural business that became quite successful. He also assumed some responsibility for managing his family’s extensive business holdings.
Kenyatta became politically active in the 1990s. In 1997 he was chair of a local branch of the Kenya African National Union (KANU)—the longtime ruling party that his father had once led—and later that year ran unsuccessfully for a parliamentary seat. In spite of his loss, KANU leader and Kenyan Pres. Daniel arap Moi seemed intent on grooming him for a greater role in public service. He appointed Kenyatta to chair the Kenya Tourist Board in 1999, and the following year Kenyatta was given the additional task of chairing the Disaster Emergency Response Committee.
Kenyatta’s political profile rose considerably in October 2001, when he was nominated by President Moi to fill a parliament seat; Moi then elevated him to the cabinet as minister for local government a month later. In 2002 Kenyatta was elected as one of four vice-chairs of KANU. Also that year, he was named the KANU candidate for the presidency—a controversial move engineered by outgoing President Moi, who was ineligible to stand for another term and wanted someone of his own choosing to succeed him; many feared that Moi would continue to rule through Kenyatta if the younger man were elected. Moi’s machinations backfired, however, as some KANU members bristled at the lack of debate within the party regarding Kenyatta’s selection as Moi’s successor, and they left
A nurse in Meru was last week forced to improvise personal protective equipment (PPE) from a plastic garbage bag before he attended to a patient suspected of suffering from Covid-19.
Sources, who sought anonymity due to sensitivity of the matter, said the nurse resorted to use a plastic bag because there were no proper PPEs available at the hospital.
Health chief officer Kanana Kimonye said she had seen the photos but could not verify whether the incident happened in Meru.
The welfare of health workers in Meru is likely to improve after the county government received a consignment of medical supplies from Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) on Wednesday.
Last week, Kenya National Union of Nurses (Knun) Meru branch, in a letter to the county government, protested that its members have been left vulnerable and demotivated despite being in the frontline fighting Covid-19.
A non-profit group organized to teach entrepreneurship to youths in the U.S., hosted a weekend conference for young people in the U.S. Virgin Islands that kicked off Thursday at the Palms at Pelican Cove.
Secretary-General of Algeria’s National Liberation Front held a press conference Thursday in Algiers in light of the parliamentary election win.
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security on Thursday launched its ‘Young Influencers’ programme to prepare youths to make a difference within their communities and among their peers.
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Jamaicans are urged not to create an environment in which youth are stigmatised because they have been identified as the age group with the highest number of COVID-19 cases. Founder of the Balaclavia Youth Club, Jordan Dressikie, expressed his...
Upper Eastern counties will no longer take samples from suspected Covid-19 patients to Nairobi following the approval of Isiolo Referral Hospital's laboratory as a testing centre.
\"We are pleased to convey to you approval of the Isiolo Referral Hospital laboratory as a SARS Covid-19 testing site for Upper Eastern region,\" the letter from KMLTTB Registrar Abdulatif Ali reads.
Isiolo Heath Chief Officer Ibrahim Alio said officials from the board will from coming week train county health care workers before the services kick off.
Speaking to the Nation, Mr Alio said the county, with one Covid-19 case, will focus on mass testing in efforts to prevent spread of the deadly virus.
Some 23 people spread across the county who travelled in the same bus that the patient used from Isiolo town to his Garbatulla home have been quarantined bringing the total number of traced contacts to 48.
Nairobi — Local small scale farmers are set will benefit for Sh18million worth of technical support as part of a social-economic recovery initiative by an agricultural technology solutions provider.
The agricultural technology solutions firm UjuziKilimo has received support from Wadson Ventures; an Africa focused early-stage venture capital house.
Speaking when he confirmed the COVID-19 relief partnership agreement, UjuziKilimo Chief Executive officer Brian Bosire said the company will channel the support towards COVID-19 and locust invasion related interventions geared at facilitating swifter agricultural production recovery.
The partnership with Wadson Ventures will allow us to extend free access to digital tools to enable farmer support organizations to sustain smallholder farmer operations while fighting the pandemic and making our food production systems resilient during and post the COVID-19,\" said Bosire.
The solution to be provided to farmer support organizations countrywide provides cutting edge information technology, analytical and planning tools to help farmers enjoy faster recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and locust invasion impacts,\" Bosire said.
