Although experts continue to debate over the impact of loans and trade between China and Kenya, the Asian country’s embassy in Nairobi, the capital of East Africa, recently launched a food festival with the goal of strengthening the cultural ties between the two.
With one of the biggest school lunch programs in Kenyan history, a non-profit is addressing the issue of parents finding it more difficult to afford food for their school-age children due to rising inflation in the country. Partnering with county governments, Food4Education provides 165,000 hot lunches a day at a cost of KSH 15 ($.10). The organization was founded in 2012, and its primary goal is to give students nutritious meals.
The Talai tribe of the Kipsigis community is petitioning the King Charles III to help them in receiving compensation for land lost during the colonial era, ahead of the king’s scheduled visit to Kenya with Queen Camilla.
With the use of artificial intelligence technology, sometimes known as A.I., Longhorn Publishers, a publishing company based in Kenya, is helping students with different financial backgrounds to attend high-quality education.
Mburu Wanyoike’s journey from gang member to nationally recognized swordsman, despite growing up in an impoverished neighborhood in Kenya, is as unlikely as it is inspirational.
When a renowned Sudanese filmmaker captured the journey of the country’s martial arts team as they travelled by road to Kenya for an international competition in 2019, he had no idea that four years later he would be travelling along the same route, but for entirely different reasons.
According to the International Coffee Organization, Kenya is Africa’s fifth-largest producer of coffee. But much like other farmers, Kenyan coffee farmers are being squeezed by climate change, price fluctuations, and now a real estate boom.
TikTok, one of the most popular applications in the world, is under growing scrutiny in Kenya over what some critics see as hate speech and explicit and obscene content. Even though millions of young Kenyans use the Chinese app for entertainment, social connections, or even to make money, an activist has petitioned parliament to ban the app.
After a series of deadly attacks by al-Shabab terrorists, hundreds of nonlocal teachers in Kenya’s northeast are demanding transfers out of the region, which is largely Muslim causing an education crisis in the country. Schools reopened August 28, but most students have not yet resumed classes.
Shelters for survivors of human trafficking are being built by the Kenyan government. Authorities say that the goal is to help victims in moving past their traumatic experiences, rebuild their lives, and prosecute human traffickers.