Kenya

NAIROBI, Jan 7 - Six journalists in South Sudan have been detained over the circulation of footage showing President Salva Kiir appearing to wet himself at an official event, the national journalists union said on Saturday.

The footage from December showed a dark stain spread down the 71-year-old president's grey trousers as he stood for the national anthem at a road commissioning event. The video never aired on television but subsequently circulated on social media.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police were investigating the death of an LGBTQ activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box, as human rights groups on Friday decried the killing.

Edwin Chiloba’s body was found on Wednesday on a road in Uasin Gishu County in the west of the country.

Police say a motorcycle taxi operator reported seeing the box being dumped by a vehicle with no license plates.

The rider reported the incident to police officers who were manning a nearby roadblock.

NAIROBI, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), a state-owned utility, on Thursday announced plans to add 3,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to the national power grid in the next ten years.

KenGen's Acting Managing Director Abraham Serem said the strategy will be largely driven by deploying geothermal and hydropower sources to stabilize the country's energy sources, thereby diversifying away from expensive thermal sources.

NAIROBI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - U.S. air safety experts say Ethiopian inspectors investigating the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines' crash that killed nearly 160 people in 2019 did not pay enough attention to crew training and emergency procedures in their report.

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in dissenting comments included in the Ethiopian report, disagreed with at least two key findings of the investigation into the crash of a Boeing 737-MAX flight.

NAIROBI, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were shot and killed by suspected al-Shabab militants in Kenya's coastal region of Lamu on Sunday evening, a government official confirmed on Monday.

Several houses in the area were also torched by the attackers in the Pandaguo area, Coast Regional Commissioner John Elungata said.

The assailants, who attacked the village at around 8 p.m. Sunday, were repulsed by police reservists after a heavy gunfight, the commissioner said.

NAIROBI, Dec 22 (NNN-NEWVISION) — The Chinese community in Kenya donated foodstuffs to drought-affected households at a ceremony held in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

The foodstuffs, including maize flour, wheat flour, beans, green grams, salt, and cooking oil, are destined for the southeastern Kenyan county of Makueni, which is reeling from a food crisis linked to a prolonged dry spell.

NAIROBI, Dec 21 (NNN-KBC) — President William Ruto on Tuesday met with Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Zhou Pingjian at State House.

In a statement, Ruto said Kenya is interested in exploring various areas of partnership with China.

“Kenya is committed to strengthening its mutually beneficial bilateral relations with China, expanding trade and exploring various areas of partnership between our two nations,” he said

Ruto acknowledged China’s crucial role in the development of infrastructure in Kenya and access to markets.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — As one deadly conflict in Ethiopia begins to calm, another is growing, challenging a government that’s eager to persuade the international community to lift sanctions and revive what was once one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.

Even as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attends the U.S.-Africa summit this week to promote last month’s peace agreement between his government and authorities from the country’s Tigray region, the larger region of Oromia appears increasingly unstable.

NAIROBI, Dec 7 (NNN-KBC) — Over 3.5 million children in Kenya will be out of school when schools reopen for the first term in January 2023, due to the ongoing drought, Save the Children said.

NAIROBI, Dec 1 (NNN-KBC) — 10 counties have reported cholera-related cases in recent days with Nairobi, Garissa and Machakos recording highest number of cases. 

This was disclosed by Acting Health Services Director General Dr. Patrick Amoth during the launch of Kenya’s Status Report on infection prevention and control in health care facilities launch, in Machakos County.

Dr. Amoth revealed that all the 17 sub-counties of Nairobi had reported cases of cholera outbreak with a total of 1,094 cases reported nationally and 25 fatalities.