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1 month ago

The West, the ICC, and ‘mtu wetu’ in Israel

The mobilisation of an imagined identity is very effective in scaring off prosecutors and intimidating judges. The arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, issued by the International Criminal Court, have brought back not-so-fond memories to many Kenyans. Similarly, when he applied for warrants for the Israeli leaders in May, ICC Prosecutor Karim …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress objects to Adani Group pipping Chinese firms to secure airport project in Kenya

Op India

On Tuesday, the Congress party objected to the Adani Group’s proposal to upgrade an airport in Kenya as the Indian conglomerate could pip Chinese firms who have also been eyeing the same project. The Adani Group’s proposed takeover of the airport in Nairobi, Kenya, has led to widespread protests in the country, with the Kenya Aviation Workers Union calling for …

India China Sri Lanka Airport Protests Bangladesh Congress

4 months ago

Passion for Sinology grows in Kenya

China Daily

A student from Eritrea learns Chinese calligraphy at a booth set up by the Confucius Institute of Kenyatta University during a Chinese New Year cultural event in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb 10. The university has recently received more than 1,000 books about Chinese language and culture from China's Shandong Normal University to help students better understand Chinese culture and language, …

Culture Language China Students University Schools Kenya

4 months ago

Passion for Sinology grows in Kenya

China Daily

A student from Eritrea learns Chinese calligraphy at a booth set up by the Confucius Institute of Kenyatta University during a Chinese New Year cultural event in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb 10. The university has recently received more than 1,000 books about Chinese language and culture from China's Shandong Normal University to help students better understand Chinese culture and language, …

Culture Language China Students University Schools Kenya

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Sun Tzu inspires new generation of Kenyans

China Daily

The seminal publication of The Art of War by Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu has provided inspiration to Kenyan youth, keen to confront present challenges and chart a brighter future. Students from the Confucius Institute at Kenyatta University, Kenya's second-oldest university, say that after reading Sun Tzu's works, they feel a sense of urgency to be optimistic, courageous and agile …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Ruto’s moment of decision

Al Jazeera

In Kenyan political mythology, 1982 was the year it all went wrong. In that year, a failed military coup transformed the previously genteel ruler Daniel arap Moi into a brutal and kleptocratic dictator who would spend the next two decades making life miserable for his countrymen. From the bravado and viciousness of his initial response, in the form of a …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

African Union observer mission declares S. African elections peaceful

China Daily

Uhuru Kenyatta, former President of Kenya, looks at the result board at the National Results Operation Centre of the Electoral Commission of South Africa, which serves as an operational hub where results of the national election are displayed, in Midrand, South Africa, May 30, 2024. The South African elections were held in a peaceful environment, said African Union Election Observation …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Gender Question | When the erased wife meets the restoring narrator

Hindustan Times

If you, like me, are on a journey to understand how and why liberal heroes must fall, I’d really recommend these two pieces of reading. One is a slightly older article about George Orwell’s wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy. We know she wrote “emendations” to his drafts, and we know she contributed to Animal Farm, his novel satirising the Soviet Union that …

English Wife Wrote Orwell Eileen Kenyatta Mukoma

1 year, 1 month ago

Shandong and Kenya jointly open traditional medicine center

China Daily

Paul Wainaina, Kenyatta University's vice-chancellor, addresses local staff and guests during the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Kenya's Kenyatta University have signed an agreement to jointly establish the China-Kenya Traditional Medicine Center. Li Kejian, president of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that the …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Kenya research center set to boost TCM

China Daily

A new joint traditional medical and drug research center bringing together expertise from China and Kenya is set to boost R&D in the growing field, analysts said. The center, in Kenyatta University of Kenya's capital Nairobi, will involve the research of traditional medicine in Kenya, the development of related drugs and the promotion of local pharmaceutical industries, Li Kejian, president …

China Medicine University Traditional Traditional Medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine Kenya

1 year, 1 month ago

Kenya research center set to boost TCM

China Daily

A pharmacist weighs ingredients to produce traditional Chinese medicine decoctions at the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in North China's Tianjin, Jan 12, 2022. The center, in Kenyatta University of Kenya's capital Nairobi, will involve the research of traditional medicine in Kenya, the development of related drugs and the promotion of local pharmaceutical industries, Li …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Ruto unmasked: Breaking the rules of Kenya’s game of thrones

Al Jazeera

At the end of January 2018, Kenya’s veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga took the oath of office as the self-described “people’s president”, barely three months after boycotting a repeat election called following the annulment by the courts of the initial poll in August. That event neatly illustrates one of the challenges facing Kenya today and the reason why the current …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Kenya braces for 3 days of anti-gov’t protests: All the details

Al Jazeera

The latest round of anti-government protests in Kenya has been scheduled after tax hikes add to soaring cost of living. The latest demonstrations are against tax hikes and follow two previous sets of protests this year against the soaring cost of living in East Africa’s economic hub and alleged malpractice in last year’s presidential election, which Odinga lost. Odinga announced …

Tax Protests Opposition Kenya Nairobi Ruto Tax Hikes

1 year, 5 months ago

Kenya’s Ruto is coming up against the limits of his power

Al Jazeera

At the beginning of this year, William Ruto seemed on top of the world. His main opponent in the race, Raila Odinga, had self-destructed not just in the run-up to the election when his 2018 handshake deal with Ruto’s former boss, Uhuru Kenyatta, had become a millstone around his neck, but also in the months afterwards when his challenge to …

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1 year, 7 months ago

US Surgeons Carry Out First-Of-Its-Kind Brain Surgery On A Fetus

News 18

Babies being born with genetic disorders are a common occurrence around the world. However, doctors in the US have performed remarkable brain surgery on an unborn baby for the first time, saving it from suffering a deadly genetic disorder. Things started to look bad when Derek, 39 and Kenyatta went for their 30-week ultrasound and the doctor told the mother …

Brain Baby Kenyatta

1 year, 9 months ago

Kenyatta enters 2024 race for Pennsylvania auditor general

Associated Press

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Democratic state lawmaker said Thursday he is running for Pennsylvania auditor general in next year’s election, getting an early start on the campaign to lead the state’s fiscal watchdog agency. The auditor general generally serves as the state’s fiscal watchdog, auditing how money is spent and getting a say in approving general obligation bond issues and …

General Pennsylvania Democratic State House Kenyatta Enters

2 years ago

M23 says ready to ‘withdraw’ in eastern DRC, yet clashes reported

Al Jazeera

The armed group, which was absent from the latest peace talks, has requested a meeting with regional mediators over the continuing conflict. The M23 rebel group says it is ready to withdraw from occupied territory in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and will support regional peace-making efforts despite not being represented in talks. The Tutsi-led armed group widely seen …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Rwanda agrees on ‘immediate ceasefire’ in eastern DR Congo

Al Jazeera

Former Kenyan president and Rwandan leader agree on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from eastern DRC. Kenya’s former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwandan leader Paul Kagame have agreed on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from captured territories in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the East African …

Kenya Rwanda Drc Goma Congo Congolese M23

2 years, 2 months ago

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

China Daily

Editor's note: A survey among China Daily's overseas readers ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China shows that the nation's ecological progress, economy, diplomacy, science and technology, and the Belt and Road Initiative are among some of the most closely observed issues. Despite having to pay a toll, many commuters in Nairobi are using the …

Kenya China Daily Nairobi Belt Expressway Road Initiative Murrey

2 years, 2 months ago

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

China Daily

Editor's note: A survey among China Daily's overseas readers ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China shows that the nation's ecological progress, economy, diplomacy, science and technology, and the Belt and Road Initiative are among some of the most closely observed issues. Despite having to pay a toll, many commuters in Nairobi are using the …

Kenya China Daily Nairobi Belt Expressway Road Initiative Murrey

2 years, 2 months ago

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

China Daily

Editor's note: A survey among China Daily's overseas readers ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China shows that the nation's ecological progress, economy, diplomacy, science and technology, and the Belt and Road Initiative are among some of the most closely observed issues. Despite having to pay a toll, many commuters in Nairobi are using the …

Kenya China Daily Nairobi Belt Expressway Murrey

2 years, 2 months ago

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

China Daily

Editor's note: A survey among China Daily's overseas readers ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China shows that the nation's ecological progress, economy, diplomacy, science and technology, and the Belt and Road Initiative are among some of the most closely observed issues. Despite having to pay a toll, many commuters in Nairobi are using the …

Kenya China Daily Nairobi Belt Expressway Murrey

2 years, 3 months ago

What Ethiopia and Tigray need for peace talks to succeed

Al Jazeera

An impartial mediator, political will and a fraction of the world’s attention that Ukraine has received would help. On September 11, 2022 – the Ethiopian New Year – the government of Tigray expressed its readiness to resume negotiations brokered by the African Union, effectively putting the ball in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s court. Ethiopia needs to recognise the TDF as …

International War Ukraine Mediation Negotiations Region Million

2 years, 3 months ago

William Ruto sworn in as Kenya’s president

The Hindu

William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya's president on Tuesday after narrowly winning the Aug. 9 election in East Africa’s most stable democracy, and quickly signaled that his leadership will be a strongly Christian one. Ruto is taking power in a country heavily burdened by debt that will challenge his efforts to fulfill sweeping campaign promises made to Kenya’s poor, …

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The West, the ICC, and ‘mtu wetu’ in Israel

Congress objects to Adani Group pipping Chinese firms to secure airport project in Kenya

Passion for Sinology grows in Kenya

Passion for Sinology grows in Kenya

Sun Tzu inspires new generation of Kenyans

Ruto’s moment of decision

African Union observer mission declares S. African elections peaceful

Gender Question | When the erased wife meets the restoring narrator

Shandong and Kenya jointly open traditional medicine center

Kenya research center set to boost TCM

Kenya research center set to boost TCM

Ruto unmasked: Breaking the rules of Kenya’s game of thrones

Kenya braces for 3 days of anti-gov’t protests: All the details

Kenya’s Ruto is coming up against the limits of his power

US Surgeons Carry Out First-Of-Its-Kind Brain Surgery On A Fetus

Kenyatta enters 2024 race for Pennsylvania auditor general

M23 says ready to ‘withdraw’ in eastern DRC, yet clashes reported

Rwanda agrees on ‘immediate ceasefire’ in eastern DR Congo

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

Key projects launched as part of Belt and Road Initiative

What Ethiopia and Tigray need for peace talks to succeed

William Ruto sworn in as Kenya’s president