NAIROBI, Kenya — Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike Thursday, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union said they went … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Kenyan court on Friday blocked the deployment of some 1,000 police officers to Haiti, putting at risk the future of a multinational security force to break the stranglehold of armed gangs that have taken over vast swaths of the Haitian capital. The U.N. Security Council approved the force in October, a … Read more
Shamba Pride has since 2016 worked to enhance last-mile distribution for farm inputs and tackle price exploitation and quality issues for farmers through its merchant network dubbed digishops. The agtech has, so far, built a network of merchants (agro-dealers) extending across 24 counties in Kenya, which represents just over half of the country. It now … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan authorities will allow cargo flights from Tanzania after its neighbor threatened to ban Kenya Airways passenger flights to Tanzania’s commercial capital. The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority in a statement Tuesday said its Kenyan counterpart had given approval to operate cargo flights between the East African countries. The issue around aviation restrictions … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan lawyers Friday demonstrated peacefully in Nairobi against what they say is judicial interference by President William Ruto, who has said he will disregard court orders from allegedly corrupt judges blocking his key development projects. In recent days, Ruto has also repeatedly threatened to remove judges he accuses of teaming up with … Read more
Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental data gap in Africa, has raised $4 million seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and the Female Founders Fund. Climate-tech VC Satgana also participated alongside other investors, including Pale Blue Dot and Superorganism, who had previously backed the startup in its $2 million pre-seed … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — The widow of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was killed a year ago in Kenya filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against an elite Kenyan police unit she accuses of the wrongful death of her husband. Javeria Siddique said she filed the lawsuit in Nairobi to get justice for her husband Arshad Sharif, … Read more
Kenya’s government has announced that it won’t renew a deal that saw Cuban doctors employed in Kenya while those from the East African country travelled to Cuba for specialized training ByEMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press October 11, 2023, 9:55 AM NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s government announced Wednesday it would not be renewing a 6-year-old deal that … Read more
FlexPay Applied sciences is a Kenyan fintech out to allow shoppers to afford merchandise that might have in any other case been out of attain for them. The startup permits prospects to buy at accomplice retailers, reserve merchandise and pay over a time frame, at no added value. It initially partnered with a Kenyan retailer … Read more