A form Two student of Malava Girls’ Secondary School in Kakamega County has allegedly committed suicide after her transfer request was rejected. The 15-year-old student, Dorothy Kageha, allegedly took poison on Tuesday, July 12, at her parents’ home in Kimang’eti Village, Malava Sub-County. She’d been taken to Kimang’eti Health Centre, where first aid was administered...
Some exes usually do not go away quickly. It is almost as if they don’t understand what it means for a relationship to be over. So they keep texting you and reaching out in other ways as if everything is still the way it used to be as if that breakup never happened. \We have...
The United Republic of Tanzania and the Sultanate of Oman have joined and agreed to establish a joint investment fund to invest in projects of joint feasibility in several sectors, including agriculture, fisheries and mining. The agreement by the two countries was reached on the sidelines of the official visit of President Samia Suluhu Hassan...
Urbanization, Industrialization, population, and job opportunities promote rapid growth in any place in the world. Similarly, as the population of Africa has increased over the years, cities with high levels of Industrialization, urbanization, and economic activities experience immigration and a fast-growing rate. According to Brahima Coulibaly, director of Brookings’ Africa Growth Initiative, “About half of...
No more Turkey? The country has had bad jokes likening it to an ugly, gobbling bird. The UN has accepted its request to be Officially known as Türkiye in English. The country may be unusual for changing its name, but it is hardly the only one to have done so. Why do countries change names?...
According to Statista, “There were approximately 13,080 nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2021, and almost 90 per cent of them belong to two countries: the United States and Russia.” What are nuclear warheads? These are weapons of mass destruction that can wipe out an entire city in minutes and kill everyone. After the havoc they wreck,...
Sugar prices are expected to soar due to the export restrictions imposed by several key producing nations seeking to tame rising domestic food prices. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which seriously undermined global supply chains, has been dramatically aggravated by the crisis in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions imposed on Russia. The conflict between...
Relations between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda seemed to deteriorate Saturday after DRC barred RwandAir from its airspace. Patrick Muyaya, the spokesman for the Congolese government, announced that DRC has “immediately” suspended the flights, adding that a “stern warning is given to the Government of Rwanda” over its alleged involvement in the conflict...
“The is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is part of China,” declared China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, at a news conference in Beijing on March 8th. That is not quite the way that Taiwan sees it. At least, Taiwan does not accept that it is part of the People’s Republic of China,...
The US government has said that the FBI has identified the plot to assassinate the former US President, George Bush Jr, organized by one of the Islamic State Members. The culprit suspected of the plot is now held in custody and expected to face trial on Tuesday next week. According to court documents, the suspect,...