Sudd is the largest wetlands in Africa and second in the world, with an estimated area of 57,000 km², located in South Sudan. The extent of Sudd wetlands depends on the seasons and yearly. During wet seasons the the size of this wetland increases up to 90,000km² and gradually decreases to about 42,000 km² depending […]
This lake is among the lakes found on the floors of Great Rift Valley. It is the world’s largest permanent desert Lake ( lake neighbouring Chalbi desert) and the world’s largest alkaline lake. It is also the word’s fourth-largest Salt Lake by volume. The cradle of human beings Some of the fossils of the earliest […]
A man who sexually abused and impregnated his two underage daughters was on Thursday jailed for 140 years by a Baricho court in Kirinyaga. The 51-year-old Akorino ‘pastor’ John Gichini was convicted on his own plea of guilt. During the sentencing, Senior Principal Magistrate Anthony Mwicigi said the pastor destroyed the lives of his daughters […]
Carolyn Elkins now assistant professor at Harvard University, spent ten years researching the real history of the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya and the systemic brutality that British colonial bureaucracy put it down. Elkins says: When I presented my dissertation proposal to my department in the winter of 1997, I was intending to write a […]
The waMeru The Meru (waMeru) people are also known as the Warwa, are Meru-Speaking Tanzanian Bantu ethnic and linguistic(different from Ameru of Kenya) group native to the slopes of Mount Meru in Arusha Region. Quick facts: –Person —Mmeru –People —Wameru –Language —Kimeru The waMeru are known for their intensive agricultural practices, a feature common with the Ameru of […]
Most schools in Mandera County risk closing just a week after re-opening, following a nine-month break occasioned by the Covid-19 outbreak, for lack of teachers. The Nation has established that schools with more than 200 learners from Grade One to Standard Eight only have a teacher each running the show. For example, in Banisa Sub-County, 35 full-fledged […]
Africa has share of natural disasters, from the most dangerous volcanoes in the world to the most dangerous lakes in the world. Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the northwestern part of Cameroon meaning that the water there poured in long after the incredibly explosive volcanic eruption that made it ended fore more than […]
Thirty-six teachers have died of Covid-19 since the pandemic hit Kenya in March last year, Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has said. Kenya’s Teachers Service Commission (TSC) data shows that 209 teachers have recovered from the virus, 92 teachers are on home-based care and nine are hospitalised. “All efforts are being made to ensure that all […]
Six park rangers have been killed after an attack at the famous Virunga National Park in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Officials have blamed the attack on a militia group known as Mai-Mai, one of many that operate in the region. The rangers were ambushed while on foot patrol inside the park, […]
As of 2021, US and South African born, Elon Musk is the richest person on earth with a net worth of $209 billion followed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with a net worth $184 billion. Kenya’s GDP is projected to be approximately $89.5 billion in 2021 from 2020’s $70 billion, with 65% of GDP owes to […]
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