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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. Mahamoud Ali Youssouf of Djibouti was on Saturday elected Chairperson of the African Union, AU, Commission. Youssouf emerged winner of the election after five rounds of voting. He defeated Odinga Odinga of Kenya in the 4th round. 2. A self-acclaimed cleric, AbdulRahman Bello,…
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In the arid expanses of Kenya’s northwest Baringo County, Doris Loruk Chepalat’s modest homestead comprises a two-room semi-permanent house set amid sparse vegetation, a testament to the region’s prolonged dry spell. The 40-year-old Chepalat, along with her husband and five children, share the humble abode and rely on subsistence farming and goat herding for their…
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Kenya on Monday marked the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, with the country on track to combat the crises, having surpassed 10 percent forest cover. Soipan Tuya, cabinet secretary for the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, who led the celebrations in Laikipia in Kenya’s Rift Valley, said the country’s tree cover…
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President William Ruto says he will be departing for a second trip to South Korea on Sunday, June 2 evening. This comes a week after jetting back to the country from a four-day state visit to the United States of America, a trip that was highly criticized on social media majorly for the expenses incurred.…
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Kenyan President William Ruto vowed Thursday that his country’s upcoming deployment to Haiti will seek to crush gangs that have ravaged the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. Ruto was speaking on a state visit to Washington alongside President Joe Biden, who saluted Kenya’s willingness to assist and promised that the United States would provide intelligence and…
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Three foreigners, from Brazil, Kenya and India, and eight Tanzanian technicians were killed early Thursday, and two others seriously injured, following an explosion at a sugar factory in Morogoro region in eastern Tanzania, a local official said. Shaban Marujugo, Morogoro region commander for the Tanzania Fire and Rescue Force, told Xinhua over the phone that…
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Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, has refused to grant bail to an Executive of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Nwite held that Gambaryan is likely to jump bail if bail is granted to him. The company and its executive were arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on money laundering before…
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Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday called on the country’s military to help the government intensify efforts to tackle climate change. Ruto, who was speaking during the pass-out parade for Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) officers at the Recruits Training School in Eldoret, about 300 km west of Nairobi, the country’s capital, said climate change is…
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Heavy rains have left 23 counties in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are normally prone to drought, severely flooded, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) said on Wednesday. The NDMA said in its latest report that the regions that had fully recovered from the recent drought are now grappling with flooding. “Enhanced rainfall…
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The Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit kicked off on Tuesday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with senior officials renewing a call for eco-friendly regeneration of farmlands to boost food and nutrition security in the continent. More than 1,500 delegates, including agriculture ministers, representatives of regional blocs, donor agencies, the private sector, academia and civil…
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Rains and floods in Kenya have claimed 66 more lives in the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 169 since March 1, with 91 people still missing, officials said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, Kenya’s government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura said the deaths on Tuesday from a mudslide that swept away villages killing…
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In the Senate chamber in Abuja, Nigeria, four nominees to lead military service branches took turns making the case that they were fit for the job. Each presented his credentials and outlined a vision for improving security in the country. “Under my watch, the armed forces shall continue to serve the Nigerian people dutifully and in…
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The immediate past Nigerian ambassador to Kenya, Ambassador Yusuf Yunusa, has passed away at the age of 73. He died at the Yobe University Teaching Hospital, Damaturu, on Friday after a brief illness. Governor Mai Mala Buni, represented by Secretary to the State Government, Baba Malam Wali, was among dozens of dignitaries of who attended…
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A woman has been found guilty of handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) during a trip to Kenya 17 years ago, in the first conviction of its kind. Amina Noor, 39, was convicted of assisting a non-UK person to mutilate the girl’s genitalia overseas at the Old Bailey on Thursday. This is the…
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A Kenyan pastor who appeared in court Tuesday will face terrorism charges over the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre,” prosecutors said. The deeply religious Christian-majority country has been stunned by the discovery of mass graves last month in a forest near the Indian…
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August 9, 2022 could have been a random day across the world; in faraway Kenya, it’s a special day for over 50 million citizens to vote for a president who will steer the affairs of their country for the next 5 years. The question of how President Uhuru Kenyatta’s two terms in power had fared…
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