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“Kenya”

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refugee business
May 13th, 2019
Does refugees’ self-reliance policy really work?
by:Bob Koigi
It is a tough call for refugees who have set up businesses as they struggle to access markets and easily do business.
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refugees blockchain
April 22nd, 2019
Blockchain innovation connects refugees to global economy
in:Humans, Economy, Technology
by:Bob Koigi
Millions of refugees struggle with loss of identity, dignity, access to basic services and recognition as they are mostly identified by numbers.
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UN Environment Assembly
March 13th, 2019
Why the world should pay more attention to the UN Environment Assembly
by:Bob Koigi
The global chemical industry continues to dominate virtually every sphere of our lives now more than ever.
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raising
February 02nd, 2019
This NGO gives thousands of Kenyan youths a ticket to a better future. Support their efforts today.
type:Donation, Volunteering
by:Yair Oded
Raising Futures Kenya tackles the country's rampant unemployment and gives vulnerable youths a chance at a better future and an independent life.
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Figueiral, Ribeira do Paul, Santo Antao, Cabo Verde
January 03rd, 2019
The Gap in Global Guidelines on Human Milk Banking
in:Humans, Economy
partner:NewsDeeply
In 2016, the Nairobi-based Africa Population Health Research Center (APHRC) set out to determine just what Kenyans thought about human milk banking.
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no violence
November 17th, 2018
Kenyan children are being taught the definition of “no means no”
by:Shira Jeczmien
Kenya is grappling with its rife sexual assault against women, but there is hope as school children are taught the definition of "no means no".
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pipelines_kenya
November 12th, 2018
Kenya goes underground to power homes and economies
in:Nature, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
The geothermal energy being tapped in the Kenyan rift, is said to be capable of powering 150 million homes.
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kenya_land
June 27th, 2018
Women's land right and what men have to do with it
in:Humans, Economy
by:Israel Bionyi
Gender equality means many things to different people. A research initiative is now putting men picture and changes the debate architecture.
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corruption
December 12th, 2017
Anti-corruption war: Leaving no one behind
by:Bob Koigi
The war on corruption will be won if we make everyone a part of it.
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internet africa2
September 13th, 2017
Trending altruism: Philanthropy in the Internet age
by:Bob Koigi
Isn't it high time that internet is placed at the heart of any African country’s agenda?
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A community court in session
August 30th, 2017
Oiling the wheels of justice the community courts style
by:Bob Koigi
Community-based courts play an important role in most African countries, blending between traditional and modern restorative justice mechanisms.
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Kenya Elections
August 08th, 2017
Elections in Kenya: a new wave of political hope
in:Humans
by:Cherotich Kenei
Kenya in motion: Today, the reigning President Uhuru Kenyatta will fight against his perennial rival Raila Odinga for the power over the country.
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dhow Kenya
August 04th, 2017
World’s first: The plastic-only boat to fight pollution
in:Humans, Nature, Economy, Technology
by:Bob Koigi
What do over 30 tonnes of recycled plastic waste, a dhow and an African coast have in common? In Kenya, a lot.
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LPT-Kenya
July 29th, 2017
Kenya: Lighting a Candle of Hope
type:Donation, Education, NGO, Project
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
Lukenya Pillars of Transformation is a Kenyan Non-profit, that seeks to build a people’s capacity for self-reliant skills.
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violence women
July 07th, 2017
Combating gender-based violence in Kenya
in:Humans
by:Cherotich Kenei
The United Nations Assembly in 1993 adopted a declaration on the elimination of violence against women; further defining gender-based violence as: ‘Any act of violence that results [...]
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April 05th, 2017
Kenya’s tweeting chief fights crime and improves community lives
in:Humans, Technology
by:Bob Koigi
Chief Francis Kariuki whose uses the twitter handle @Chiefkariuki ‏is a household name in his area for averting catastrophes and mobilizing the [...]
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March 15th, 2017
Butt lifting for Africa’s middle class
in:Humans
by:Bob Koigi
It is an industry spawning creams, surgeries and padding, and it has now seen an unprecedented surge in the number of plastic surgeons and clinics across [...]
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March 03rd, 2017
The Kenyan coffee thefts
in:Humans, Economy
by:Thanh Hoang
The Kenyan coffee variety, Arabica, has always attracted high premiums in international markets due to its high quality, fruity notes and strong acidity. It is used in [...]
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February 22nd, 2017
Money before country? Kenyan athletes changing the nation
in:Humans
by:Bob Koigi
The 20 year old Kenyan-born Ruth Jebet had managed to earn the oil rich gulf state its first ever Olympic gold medal. The previous day another [...]
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February 10th, 2017
The karate grandmas of Kenya
in:Humans
by:Bob Koigi
She has been taking care of her three grandchildren who were left by her parents after they died of AIDS. She would learn about a new school that was training women of her age on self-defense. “I [...]
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smartphone
February 08th, 2017
Youth and Innovation - Africa’s saving grace
by:Bob Koigi
At an ICT incubation center in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, a group of young people who spends about three quarters of their day next to computers continue to everyday come up [...]
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katikati_01
December 19th, 2016
Tom Tykwer: "Africa is so foreign to us because it is so rarely mentioned"
in:Arts
by:Nicole Sagener
fairplanet: Mr Tykwer, you set up the One Fine Day association with your wife Marie in 2008. It supports young Kenyan filmmakers with workshops, [...]
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Opening celebration for a new Fresh Life Toilet spot in Kenya © Medora Brown (Sanergy)
November 23rd, 2016
Turning slum toilets into viable businesses
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Sanitation has become a global eyesore with an estimated 2.5 billion, or over one third of the world population, lacking adequate sanitation. As a result [...]
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November 07th, 2016
Kenyan author robbed of the Nobel Prize in Literature
in:Humans, Arts
by:Chuma Nwokolo
This story was first published on JournAfrica. For Ngũgĩ, the estate of writing and thinking definitely go hand-in-glove, resulting in substance [...]
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Kakenya enjoys a moment with some of the girls
November 04th, 2016
An education warrior against female circumcision
in:Humans
by:Bob Koigi
Statistics show that approximately 200 million girls and women alive today have been undergone female genital mutilation. In her native Maasai [...]
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October 24th, 2016
Africa’s first bike sharing scheme against economic loss
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
The scheme being trialed by the University of Nairobi also targets entrenched mindsets among Kenyans who associate bicycles and cycling with poverty [...]
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October 14th, 2016
Sex for fish
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Women haggle for the best catch and the fishermen, mostly men, shove them around. Once in a while the well-built men will have some hushed conversations with some specific women who later get the [...]
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WBR-Students-01
August 24th, 2016
Bicycling out of poverty, towards development
in:Humans, Economy, Technology
by:Vanessa Ellingham
For anyone who hasn’t heard of World Bicycle Relief before, what’s the back-story, in your own words? In 2005, in response to the Indian Ocean [...]
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August 03rd, 2016
Kenyan women grow their way out of poverty with table banking
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
It is a story that reverberates across thousands of Kenyans, the majority of them women, who remain without bank accounts, but who have found a new [...]
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May 12th, 2016
The "Google Man" connects Kenya to the world
in:Economy
by:Bob Koigi
In a nondescript village in Western Kenya, Zack Matere has been on a mission; to connect the local population to the internet, the majority of them farmers and [...]
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Massai_warrior
May 05th, 2016
Support the Maasai protect their lands!
type:Crowd Funding, Donation, NGO, Petition
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
The iconic Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania have been fighting for decades to survive and defend their environment. Lately, they're losing the battle: [...]
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April 27th, 2016
How Kenya’s ten houses concept is taming crime and terrorism
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Every Wednesday evening Joel Kirui, a banker in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, joins other families in the South C estate, predominantly occupied by the [...]
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April 08th, 2016
Kenya turns to lifestyle audits to tame runaway corruption
in:Humans
by:Bob Koigi
The corruption is so entrenched that a report by the Kenya’s auditor general’s office which tracks spending of public funds, indicated that up to [...]
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February 29th, 2016
A stich in time
in:Humans, Economy
by:Cherotich Kenei
Despite the governmental strides that have been made by African states and the various economic empowerment programs funded through donor aid, the lack of well-structured and transparent channels have [...]
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February 19th, 2016
The Youtube athlete
in:Humans
by:Cherotich Kenei
Since the Olympic debut in 1956, a total of eighty-six Olympic track and field medallists came out of Kenya’s world-renowned athletes and record holders more than any other [...]
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December 15th, 2015
Who run the world? Girls!
in:Humans, Economy
by:Vanessa Ellingham
As a response to sexual violence, a group of 15 Kenyan women created a women-only village in 1990 that continues to thrive today. The women had been raped by British [...]
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nairobi river pollution
November 10th, 2015
The Nairobi River: New face, same old problems
in:Humans, Nature, Economy
by:Cherotich Kenei
In recent years cleanup excersises have been carried out but the consistency of such initiatives have been hampered by corruption and the lack of continuous [...]
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termites
October 17th, 2015
Termite technology inspires green architecture
in:Nature, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Buffeted by extreme weather that fluctuates between 40°C during the day to lows of less than 1°C, the African termites have always managed to keep [...]
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October 10th, 2015
Kenyan prisoners fight with super crop
in:Humans, Nature
by:Bob Koigi
The innovation involves growing tomatoes and potatoes within the same stem through grafting. It was first trialed by the inmates in 2010, having been [...]
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Central Kenya
September 22nd, 2015
Kenya's climate refugees feel the heat of changing weather
by:Bob Koigi
Nowhere is the change of climate more pronounced than Africa where over 80 per cent of the population relies on agriculture for income and [...]
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Kiplimo-Chebotibin
September 05th, 2015
If dreams grow wings
in:Humans, Economy
by:Cherotich Kenei
The rural Keiyo is limited to the few who could garner high grades to warrant a university degree in major universities such as Moi University and University of Nairobi built [...]
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August 01st, 2015
Banana stalk hair extension
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
The company, made up of three engineers, has been responding to an incessant cry by farmers who have nowhere to discard their banana stalks after harvest. Kenya has approximately 390,000 [...]
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kenya-pest
July 07th, 2015
African farmers triumph over pests
in:Nature, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
The situation reverberates across Sub Saharan Africa where $4 billion is lost each year, even as 29 percent of the population remains hungry, according to and the Food [...]
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May 14th, 2015
Seeds for drinking water
in:Nature, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Rural families in Kenya have few or no sources of clean water, with studies by Water Link International showing that half of the population in Kenya, and a majority in the [...]
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young freddi shoes
April 30th, 2015
Start up to start over
in:Humans, Economy
by:Cherotich Kenei
FREDDIE GITARI - Young Freddie The inspiration for the Kenyan designer brand "YoungFreddie" came from Freddie Gitari's desire to promote local [...]
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kenya stateless
April 25th, 2015
In pursuit of belonging: the Nubian struggle
in:Humans
by:Cherotich Kenei
For the Nubians of East Africa, man’s greed and thirst for power during the scramble for Africa has left them in a predicament in modern day Kenya. [...]
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kenya-millionaire
April 07th, 2015
Value addition births millionaire farmers in Kenya
in:Humans, Nature, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Traditionally Kenyan farmers' obsession with certain crops has worked against them as evidenced in market oversupply. Farmers would produce the same [...]
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March 27th, 2015
The life of climate refugees
by:Bob Koigi
Ever heard about "climate refugees" and that people have to flee their countries as a result of changes in weather? Thanks to your great support this story is [...]
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March 20th, 2015
Progress for the Nairobi River
by:Cherotich Kenei
Kibera is the most populous slum in Africa. This is a story how the inhabitants of Kibera take a step for themselves and the various generations to [...]
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bush-university-1
March 20th, 2015
Kenya’s "University of the bush"
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Far from the comfort of the city conference halls, the researchers meet the pastoralists under acacia trees where the pastoralists feel at ease to [...]
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Mais-Kenia
March 16th, 2015
Fighting aflatoxins an orphan at a time
in:Humans, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
The Eastern area of Kenya is one of the driest in the country, receiving little or no rain which has seen locals predominantly rely on relief food. But a prolonged rainy [...]
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2015 hrw wr yezidi syria
January 29th, 2015
Human rights violations ultimately fuel crises
by:Murat Suner
Human Rights Watch reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries. Yesterday, it released its 656-page World Report 2015, its 25th [...]
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Malaria endemic countries of the Eastern hemisphere
December 05th, 2014
Rolling back Malaria in Kenya
by:Cherotich Kenei
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November 16th, 2014
Dossier
Malaria
by:Murat Suner
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite. The 2013 World Health Organization Malaria Report estimates that nearly 630,000 people die [...]
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04 BM jim with ashanti chief
November 05th, 2014
Human Rights Watch film festival
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Next week the fourth Human Rights Watch film festival in Nairobi will begin, with a programme of films chosen to spark debate and encourage action. Nairobi, home to a [...]
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October 31st, 2014
Who really needs help here?
in:Humans, Arts
by:Vanessa Ellingham
It was at this moment Hussein Kurji first had the idea for The Samaritans, an online mokumentary series satirising the aid industry. Surrounded by [...]
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MDG : eviction the Sengwer community from their ancestral lands in the Embobut Kenya
October 03rd, 2014
World Bank fails to protect indigenous people
by:Vanessa Ellingham
The World Bank has failed to protect one of Kenya's last indigenous hunter-gatherer people, according to a leaked report from the Bank obtained by [...]
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IMG_9696
September 21st, 2014
A river and a hope: Nairobi has an attending vision
by:Cherotich Kenei
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Women-who-form-the-bulk-of-Kenya's-smallholder-farmers-are-bearing-the-brunt-of-changes-in-weather
September 16th, 2014
Kenya’s ticking time bomb: climate refugees
in:Humans, Nature, Economy
by:Bob Koigi
Nowhere is this effect more felt than in Africa where the bulk of the population relies on agriculture, the worst hit sector by climate change, for [...]
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July 25th, 2014
Albinos don’t die, they just disappear
in:Humans, Arts
by:Marc Hairapetian
Marc Hairapetian: How did you come to the subject of Albino hunting in East Africa? Noaz Deshe: „White Shadow“ is not entirely about the [...]
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beekeeping
January 07th, 2014
Press Review: Landless young in Kenya turn to beekeeping & A biofuel project in Kenya helps stop deforestation
in:Nature, Economy
type:Allgemein
by:Rebecca Silus
With youth unemployment at 30%, many are forced to take on dangerous work or go abroad where they often work in domestic servitude. The NGO Farm [...]
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photo 3
November 14th, 2013
Kenyan Government must end forced evictions
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
org:Amnesty International
On 10 May 2013, nearly 400 homes were destroyed in a forced eviction carried out at City Carton informal settlement in Nairobi, after the settlement was cordoned off by [...]
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October 04th, 2013
Kenya: Legislation urgently required to halt devastating forced evictions
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
org:Amnesty International
“Nearly half of Nairobi’s population live in slums and many are at risk of forced evictions which not only often make people homeless, but also [...]
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April 17th, 2013
UK and US Governments Turn Blind Eye to Forced Evictions in Ethiopia
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:FairPlanet Editorial Team
Over half a million tribal people in both Ethiopia and Kenya face the total destruction of their way of life as a result of large scale [...]
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March 28th, 2013
Maasai Youngster's Tech-Invention Saves Lives, Livelihoods, and Communities.
in:Humans, Economy
type:Allgemein
by:Jack Bicker
"I used to hate lions, but now because of my invention… we are able to stay with the lions without any conflict." Maasai youngsters are often given [...]
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outbreak responder
March 21st, 2013
Change You Can Play: Outbreak Responder
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:Code Sustainable
Code Sustainable’s Outbreak Responder is a time-management game that places the player in charge of malaria control projects. The game focuses on [...]
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January 28th, 2013
AFRICA'S AUDACITY OF HOPE? What might Africans expect from a second Obama Administration?
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:Jack Bicker
As Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term as US president, Fairplanet asked five young Africans about the ways in which US relations with their [...]
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somalia
January 26th, 2013
Somalia in Transition - An Interview with the British Ambassador to Somalia
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:Sara Jabril
After two decades without a stable government, Somalis witnessed open campaigning and were able to cast their vote in what was an important step in [...]
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November 25th, 2012
Somali business flourishes in Kenya but xenophobia threatens the peace in Eastleigh
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:Sara Jabril
The Somali Spring? Recently, however, there has been reason for hope. For the first time since 1991, when dictator Said Barre’s rule came to a [...]
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July 26th, 2012
Stealing from children: $46m of education aid goes missing in Kenya
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:Jack Bicker
The education of children in the developing world is not only a matter of future employment and economic success; for these children, education is [...]
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January 02nd, 2012
Why is M-Pesa so popular in Kenya?
in:Humans, Nature, Economy
type:Allgemein
org:Biovision
In our interview he explains the importance of the mobile phone in general and particularily M-Pesa, an SMS-based payment system with more than 17 million users in [...]
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