DROUGHT CRISIS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA

Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday. An extreme months-long drought has left the Horn of Africa on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, destroying crops and livestock and forcing huge numbers of people to…

GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST PUMP STATIONS OVERPRICING

Energy Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma says the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has opened investigations into non-compliant Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) and retail station operators that were reported to have failed to maintain minimum operational stocks or to hoard petroleum in the past two weeks. On Tuesday,  Juma that the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority…