The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) leadership has welcomed the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) national scale-up efforts to all 47 counties and confirmed its organizational readiness to support the rollout of affordable healthcare. Following the success of the UHC pilot project in 2018, President Uhuru Kenyatta, on Monday, launched the national UHC Scale-Up, an essential…
Confusion has rocked political parties in the country over the implementation of the requirement that Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) with aspirations for higher office in the August 2022 polls should resign by midnight of February 9, 2022. The Constitution, Article 99 (2) d stipulates that a person is disqualified from being elected a member…
The World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that about 13 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are facing severe hunger during the first quarter of this year due to drought. WFP’s Eastern Africa Regional Director Michael Dunford on Tuesday said the situation is as a result of three consecutive failed rainy seasons which have…
Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo has called for the strengthening of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) in a bid to enhance the continent’s readiness to address emerging and future health crises. Omamo made the appeal on Thursday during the 40th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council in Addis Ababa. She emphasized on…
A court in Eldama Ravine has sentenced a man to 15 years imprisonment for defilement. The Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (ODPP) said Thursday that the convict, identified as Michael Waswa was accused of defiling a 15-year-old girl who was his wife’s friend when she visited their home in Baringo’s Mogotio sub-county. “It…
Migori County Assembly Speaker Boaz Okoth and seven other county officials were freed on Sh200, 000 surety bond on Thursday following their arrest over theft of finance records. Okoth and seven co-accused persons were released on a bond of Sh200, 000 and one surety or alternative cash bail of Sh100, 000 each. The Assembly Speaker,…
Migori County Assembly Speaker Boaz Okoth has been arrested by DCI officers alongside seven other officials after staging a night raid during which they reportedly carted away files and computers for the finance office. The eight were booked at the Migori Police Station following the arrest on Wednesday. The Speaker is alleged to have broken…
The National Treasury has substantially increased the allocation to the Petroleum ministry to enable it continue with a subsidy programme that has been cushioning Kenyans from the high cost of petroleum products. The Petroleum ministry’s allocation for the financial year to June has gone up by Sh24.7 billion bringing the total that the ministry has…
Maize farmers from Lugari sub-county are a happy lot landing a market for their produce. The World Food Programme (WFP) started buying maize from the farmers on Tuesday at Sh3, 000 per 90 kilograms bag. According to Majengo farmers’ Cooperative Society chairperson Alice Adage, So far, WFP has bought 2, 200 bags of maize that…
Hope came knocking for an estimated 200,000 locals facing starvation due to drought that has continued to ravage families and their livestock. This is after the county government started distributing some 10,000 bags of dry food to the hunger-stricken families. According to Daniel Lesaigor, the county’s special programs chief officer, a total of 30,000 households…