Nairobi City county assembly majority chief Whip Moses Ogeto at Baba Dogo Primary School on August 28, 2023For years, Nairobians have endured long queues, overworked medical staff and empty pharmacy shelves at public hospitals and clinics.Better days could be ahead for struggling health facilities if a proposed bill passes in the county assembly.This is premium contentSubscribe to Continue ReadingHelp us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations, and diverse perspectives. Your subscription keeps our mission alive and empowers us to provide high-quality, trustworthy journalism. Join us today to make a difference!Already Subscribed? Sign in Published Date: 2025-07-01 04:25:19 Author: by GORDON OSEN…
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NEMA officials display some of the banned plastic bags recovered from the arrested persons during a raid at Kyumbi in Athi River, Machakos County on April 3, 2025.Despite a formal single-use plastic ban in the country, the problem won’t go away, with a new report showing Nairobi leading the daily producer of plastic garbage.This as United Nations Environment Programme says the negotiation for a joint international instrument for dealing with plastic waste is continuing a pace, with a key summit slated for early August in Korea. The negotiation was commissioned in Kenya in 2022.World Vision says that Kenya generates 22,000 tonnes…
GavelJust like the biblical rage that caused Cain to kill his brother Abel over land, a man’s burning anger against his grandmother drove him to behead her.He will serve 35 years in prison for the crime committed in 2013 in Nyakach, Kisumu county. This is premium contentSubscribe to Continue ReadingHelp us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations, and diverse perspectives. Your subscription keeps our mission alive and empowers us to provide high-quality, trustworthy journalism. Join us today to make a difference!Already Subscribed? Sign in Published Date: 2025-06-10 13:27:48 Author: by GORDON OSEN Source: The Star
A pregnant schoolgirl /AI ILLUSTRATIONThis is premium contentSubscribe to Continue ReadingHelp us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations, and diverse perspectives. Your subscription keeps our mission alive and empowers us to provide high-quality, trustworthy journalism. Join us today to make a difference!Already Subscribed? Sign in Published Date: 2025-06-10 10:46:43 Author: by GORDON OSEN Source: The Star
Mary Wanjiru during an interview at UN complex, Gigiri, on Tuesday /DOUGLAS OKIDDYIn homes across Kenya, girls grow up fearing shadows cast by deep-rooted bias—where protection often means control, and hope for equality battles against a culture that still silences their voices. According to Mary Wanjiru, team lead of the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Unit at UN Women Kenya, this harsh reality fuels a scourge of violence against women that goes far beyond the alarming wave of femicide, rooted deeply in cultural norms that elevate men above women.In an interview with the Star at the UN complex, she illustrated this with a common…
Recognising the silent scourge of assault against little boys, a court has upheld a life sentence for a man who lured a curious boy with fairytales, leading him into a Rongo forest where the child was sodomised. It was a Saturday, a major day of worship in southern Nyanza for Seventh Day Adventists. The boy T.A.O was 11 years old in 2012. He and his younger brother P.O. were going to church when S.O.O met them and told them stories about a rabbit.This is premium contentSubscribe to Continue ReadingHelp us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations, and diverse perspectives. Your subscription keeps…
Members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda are handed over to the Rwanda Defence Force at the Grande Barriere border post between Rwanda and DRC on March 1 /CYRIL NDEGEYA /XINHUAA global human rights lobby has blamed tension between Kenya and the DRC for the failed Nairobi process that aimed to establish peace in the mineral-rich but war-torn country.Human Rights Watch, in a detailed brief on African peace and security sent to the African Union, deplored that strained diplomatic relations between Nairobi and Kinsasha undermined the East African Community initiative that had shown promise.This is premium contentSubscribe to…
A man walks on cracked surface of a dried up Kishenyi Dam in Wundanyi, Taita Taveta on November 3, 2022 /FILESome 2.8 million Kenyans face life-threatening starvation in coming months due to depressed rainfall in late 2024, an alarming increase from 1.9 million recorded the previous year, a new report has warned.The 2025 Global Report on Food Crises, published by the Food Security Information Network, attributes the worsening situation to poor rains in the last quarter of 2024, which have plunged many into deep food insecurity.This is premium contentSubscribe to Continue ReadingHelp us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations,…
ICJ chairman Protus Saende gifts lawyer PLO Lumumba a plaque after he gave a key note address during ICJ’s conference on civic participation in Nairobi on Wednesday. Present are ICJ council members /HANDOUTElection experts are warning the build up of political stakes ahead of the 2027 elections is becoming increasingly dire and could plunge the country into a crisis similar to what was witnessed in 2007.They say recent developments in the country, particularly the handling of protests and preparations for the 2027 polls, are deeply troubling.This is premium contentSubscribe to Continue ReadingHelp us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations,…
Cattle graze at Lang’ata cemetery /FILEThe current tiff between the Ministry of Health and the Nairobi government over the Lang’ata cemetery is not the first controversy that has rocked the public interment facility.From being turned into a disposal site for human waste by a rogue developer in 2020 to its current concerns of serious health risks it poses to the city, the dead in Lang’ata have not known peace.Declared full in early 2000s by the defunct Nairobi City Council, the cemetery is yet to be closed hence, the current stacking of bodies in shallow graves.Last week, Public Health Principal Secretary…