TWO NEW NORTHERN WHITE RHINO EMBRYOS CREATED AT CHRISTMAS. NOW THERE ARE 5!

Nairobi, Kenya – The international consortium of scientists and conservationists that is working towards preventing the extinction of the northern white rhino through advanced assisted reproduction technologies is happy to announce that in December 2020, two new northern white rhino embryos were produced. On December 13, the team of Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), Safari […]

It was not until 2003 when land and freedom fighters Mau Mau was recognised as freedom fighters by then Mwai Kibaki’s government

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 […]

Are the Ameru of Kenya and waMeru of Tanzania related?

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 […]

Teachers shortage hits Mandera county in Kenya

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 […]

Covid-19 has killed 36 teachers in Kenya

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 […]

Santa Mukuru Kayaba Primary school

Mukuru Kayaba primary school is situated in the Mukuru kayaba slum in Nairobi. This school started in 1985 as Non-formal school with about 200 students and four teachers assisted by volunteers. At the time  the pupils who were admitted were children over ten years old who had either been out of school for various reasons […]

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