Agriculture - Nutrition
Kenya drought could create 5 million needy
afrol News, 19 January - Already, 1.6 million Kenyans are receiving food aid to compensate for drought and poor harvests. Government however warns the number could skyrocket to 5 million within a few months, as rains have kept failing.
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Agriculture - Nutrition | Gender - Women
Kenyan women milk fortunes from camel
afrol News, 13 January - Safia Kulow, in the arid centre of Kenya, is in firm control of her economy after she and other traditional Anolei women made big business of camel milk. Now they consider which investments to make to increase revenues from their industry.
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Politics
Kenya assists Ethiopia fight Oromia rebels
afrol News, 9 December - The Ethiopian government is hailing Kenya for its registration of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as "an organised criminal body." Several OLF rebels have already been killed and arrested in Kenya.
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Technology | Agriculture - Nutrition | Health
E-payment for a cup of water in Kenya
afrol News, 22 October - In a rural district grossly neglected by Kenyan authorities, private actors have introduced groundbreaking technology to provide basic services. E-payment, microfinance and solar energy secure safe water for villagers.
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Technology | Science - Education
Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops
afrol News, 21 October - Gladys Lokilamak is always cheery in the afternoons. This is the time that she and her colleagues at the remote Asilong Primary School in north-western Kenya normally find fun in education - through laptops.
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Economy - Development
One in 7 Kenyans receive money from abroad
afrol News, 19 October - A new survey reveals that over 14 percent of Kenyans receive substantial money transfers from abroad each year. For Africa as a whole, remittances currently reach up to US$ 30 billion annually.
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Society | Human rights | Labour
Nairobi, Dar es Salaam attracting trafficked children
afrol News, 12 October - A new study into human trafficking trends in East Africa reveals that the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania are the region's main magnet for children and adults tricked into exploitative labour including prostitution.
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Technology | Environment - Nature | Science - Education
Most Kenyans say no to cleaner energy
afrol News / SciDev.Net, 11 October - The majority of Kenyans are unwilling to abandon their traditional energy sources in favour of cleaner or renewable ones, unless their incomes rise significantly, a new study has found.
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Society
Kenya increases control on Somali border
afrol News, 24 September - A mobile border control unit is now to intensify Kenya's control with the porous Somali border. Hundreds cross the border uncontrolled every day, some of which are militants or victims of human smuggling.
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Politics
Kenya demands UN engagement in Somalia
afrol News, 23 September - Since the US military defeat in Somalia in 1994, Africa has been left alone to send troops to the failed nation. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki today demanded more UN and Western engagement in Somalia.
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Travel - Leisure | Environment - Nature
East African national parks see mammals' decline
afrol News, 15 July - One of East Africa's main tourist attractions, the density of large mammals in its famed national parks, is rapidly declining, a new study shows. The "Big Five" are especially threatened.
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Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
Kenya's Mombasa to get luxury marina
afrol News, 2 July - The Kenyan city of Mombasa is setting up East Africa's first-ever luxury marina. The giant project, developed by a consortium of Kenyan investors, is to open in 2012.
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Science - Education | Agriculture - Nutrition
Scientists find cure for Kenya's toxic maize
afrol News, 4 June - In Kenya, at least 2.3 million bags of maize are this year rendered unfit for consumption and trade due to high toxic levels produced by a fungus. Scientists now try to prevent future contamination.
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Science - Education | Agriculture - Nutrition
Maasais' good health surprises scientists
afrol News, 20 May - The nomadic Maasai people of Kenya are known for their limited diet of mostly milk and blood, which nutritionists expected would result in a poor health situation. The opposite proved true.
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