By BBC Landlords have been illegally raising prices due to the Los Angeles wildfires, says Selling Sunset star Jason Oppenheim. The LA property mogul, who owns the luxury real estate brokerage at the centre of the Netflix reality show, said one client had been asked for thousands over the original asking price to rent a…
By BBC Firefighters are battling to control huge wildfires in Los Angeles that have killed at least 24 people, devoured thousands of buildings and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. It’s a rapidly changing situation – these maps and pictures show the scale of the challenge, where the fires are and…
By BBC At least 16 civilians in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara State have been killed in a military air strike, apparently after being mistaken for criminal gangs. Residents told local media the victims were members of local vigilante groups and civilians defending themselves from armed gangs notorious for kidnapping people for ransom. The strikes targeted militant…
BY BBC Professional chef Daron Anderson always tells people he was “born in the kitchen” – quite literally. The 45-year-old was delivered by homebirth at 295 West Las Flores Drive, where he lived with his mother until this week. On Thursday, he stepped over charred debris where his kitchen once stood in Altadena, a tight-knit…
The County Government of Kirinyaga has trained officials of recently launched Ward Basedmulti-value chain Saccos in order to enhance their capacity to run the cooperatives effectively.The 172 officials drawn from the 20 wards were trained on money lending, insurance andcollateral on loans among other Sacco management good practices.The capacity building was carried out in partnership…
By BBC /Kayla Epstein in New York Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to halt his sentencing in the criminal hush money case, which is set for Friday. The eleventh-hour filing comes after two lower courts rejected Trump’s efforts to block the proceedings. The president-elect’s lawyers have now asked the nation’s top court to consider…
By BBC/Hafsa Khalil The time of day you drink a cup of coffee may lower the risk of an early death, new research suggests. The study found that people who drank coffee in the morning had a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and had a lower mortality risk than all-day coffee consumers –…
In 2024, Kenyan tea made a significant leap in the Russian market, securing the second spot in terms of tea imports, surpassing Sri Lanka. This notable shift was reported by TASS, citing data from Rosselkhozbank. According to the report, India remains the dominant tea supplier to Russia, accounting for approximately 30% of the imports. However,…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.kei Coffee auction resumed after a break, with 12 local and international dealers buying 18,138 bags of coffee for Sh957,358,702. The earnings at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) registered a decline compared to Sh1.1 billion netted on December 17, after the sale of 21,636 bags. In the NCE report, Baragwi cooperative society’s…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Tea farmers have received Sh3.2 billion for the payment of green leaf processed in the month of December by smallholder factories across the counties. KTDA Holding Chairman Enos Njeru said the monthly payment for 131.5 million kilogrammes of green leaf delivered for processing in the 70 tea factories. Njeru said the…
