The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke More than 4,500 foster parents have been registered in the country as the children’s rights advocates have discouraged the presence of charitable homes. In a forum to celebrate the foster parents, the advocates and department of children underscored the need of raising children in the families rather than in charitable homes…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke More than 5,000 residents of Murang’a county benefited from medical services sponsored by Royal Media Services jointly with the county government. Inooro TV celebrated its 7th birthday Governor Irungu Kang’ata backed by a section of leaders visited the medical camp at Maragi Primary School where the sick were treated and benefited…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Proffessor Kithure Kindiki was sworn the Deputy President as Pesident William Ruto urged him to help fulfill the Kenya Kwanza agenda, calling for unity and equal service to all Kenyans. The head of state speaking after Kindiki was was sworn in at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), expressed frustration over the past…
President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s Botswana Democratic Party loses parliamentary majority in shock defeat. Botswana’s governing party has suffered a shock election defeat after nearly six decades in power, preliminary election results show. President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) lost its grip on power on Friday after opposition parties won at least 35 of 61 seats…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Communities living in two endangered forests have partnered with government agencies ending the perennial animosity and embarking in planting indigenous trees to enhance forest cover. In the past 20 years, Nyeri Hill and Kilimambogo hills have been destroyed with impunity, as the neighbours fell trees, burned charcoal and massive livestock grazing,…
The Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof. Kithure Kindiki is set to be sworn the Deputy President, taking over from the impeached Rigathi Gachagua. The High Court allowed Kindiki’s swearing after it lifted the conservatory orders. The three-judge bench, comprising Justices Eric Ogola, Anthony Mrima, and Fridah Mugambi, cited the need to ensure continuity in office. “The…
Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) presidential candidate Duma Boko (L) casts his ballot in Gaborone on October 30, 2024, during Botswana’s general election. [AFP] BY AFP Diamond-rich Botswana voted in general elections Wednesday with the ruling party vying to extend its 58 years in power and hand President Mokgweetsi Masisi a second term amid concerns about…
The Mountain Journal Controversy surrounding human wildlife conflict in Umande ward, Laikipia County has taken a new twist, after private developers moved to the environment tribunal to stop the putting up of an electric fence along Timau river. In the suit before the tribunal, the 10 developers among them businessmen and a local, establish tourists…
The Mountain Journal Cooperative societies and estates affiliated to Alliance Berries Limited and New KPCU continued to reap better returns from the coffee auction at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE). The farmers earned Sh499,355,137 for the sale of 11,864 bags of coffee compared to the Sh397.1 million which was earned in the previous week upon…
Voters in the US go to the polls on 5 November to elect their next president. The election was initially a rematch of 2020 but it was upended in July when President Joe Biden ended his campaign and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris. The big question now is – will America get its first woman president…
