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Puerto Rico’s drought crisis has widened into a federal disaster declaration covering 26 municipalities, giving farmers access to emergency loans as extreme dryness, rationing and aging water infrastructure squeeze the island at the peak of...
President William Ruto is due to unveil a new Kenya Police Service uniform in Kiganjo, Nyeri County, as more than 6,000 recruits pass out. The redesign may signal a fresh look for general duty officers, but critics say it will only matter i...
28 Aug, 2026 · 33 min read · 1,877 views
The government says it is combining more frontline police support with mobile public-service desks in Nairobi North, in a move officials describe as an attempt to bring administration, security and civil services closer to residents in fast...
28 Aug, 2026 · 37 min read · 8 views
Calls to abolish Kenya’s Social Health Authority are running into a harder reality: the agency sits inside a legal and policy framework built by Parliament, and any dismantling would require more than political outrage. As criticism mounts...
27 Aug, 2026 · 33 min read · 5 views
Kenya’s presidential contest is not limited by a university-degree rule, yet education remains a central issue in how voters judge competence, trust and leadership ahead of the 2027 polls.
27 Aug, 2026 · 22 min read · 32 views
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has dismissed claims of a falling-out with Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna, saying the chatter is meant to weaken their camp as the Linda Mwananchi movement expands its national reach ahead of the 2027 election.
27 Aug, 2026 · 31 min read · 14 views
Kenya’s teachers are once again pressing the Teachers Service Commission to create a formal political leave arrangement for educators who want to contest elective seats in 2027, arguing that the current rules force them to choose too early...
27 Aug, 2026 · 32 min read · 8 views
The Trump administration has intensified its economic pressure on Iran with new sanctions and broader secondary-sanctions threats, a move officials say is meant to squeeze Tehran’s revenue but which also raises the stakes for foreign firms...
27 Aug, 2026 · 27 min read · 4 views
African health ministers have endorsed a new decade-long workforce agenda in Addis Ababa as the Democratic Republic of the Congo battles the fastest-moving Ebola outbreak in its history, with WHO and Africa CDC pressing for faster, communit...
27 Aug, 2026 · 19 min read · 4 views
A debt ceiling would trigger automatic spending cuts, which conservatives could use to pare back social programmes.An economic adviser for the campaign of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has said that the candidate will institute a debt ceiling...
27 Aug, 2026 · 5 min read · 8 views