Photo/ Photo of the recent floods By Sean NgiriciKenya has recently been in the middle of two extremes: severe drought and deadly floods. Theimpact of climate change is no longer a distant threat – it is a lived reality.In 2023, we experienced the worst drought in four decades. According to the National Drought Management Authority,…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Kenya has raised concern over the low quality teas mixed with Kenyan tea and marketed under Kenyan brand names. In a high level meeting, they deliberated on the shelf life of tea, a matter that has been a sticking point in recent years. The Pakistan Tea Association calls for a one-year…
BBC News, Kakuma Hundreds of thousands of people are “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, a United Nations official has told the BBC. The impact is starkly visible at a hospital in the sprawling Kakuma camp in the north-west of the East African…
By France 24 An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India‘s western city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said on Thursday, without specifying whether there were any fatalities. The plane was headed to London‘s Gatwick airport in the UK, Air India said, while police officers said it crashed in a civilian area near the airport. The 242 people…
By BBC Non-essential US embassy staff and their dependants in Baghdad are to be evacuated from Iraq due to heightened security risks, US government sources have said. Officials did not say exactly what prompted the removal, but have been told Israel was ready to launch an operation into Iran, the BBC’s US partner CBS reported….
