Portus Chege/The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The recent death at the hands of Kenyan police of a teacher-cum-blogger painfully recalls the assassination in 2009 of an outspoken human rights activist and brings into sharp focus the spectre of police extrajudicial killing in Kenya. Albert Omondi Ojwang’, a teacher and social media influencer, was tortured before being…
Photo/ President William Ruto in a talk with Murang’a Governor Irungu Kang’ata whil they toured investors booth at the Murang’a Investiment Conference at Thika Greens Resort and Exclusive Golf Course The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Investors trooped to Thika Green Resort for deliberations on how to make Murang’a great through investment within 800 acres of land,…
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….
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Twenty-five families living in deplorable conditions in Gachagi, Murang’a County, are urgently calling for their resettlement by Kakuzi PLC Limited. The families live in a congested area, sharing latrines and bathrooms, without space for a kitchen garden, seeking government intervention to get justice. The squatters’ chairman, Mr Michael Mburi, said they…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Murang’a County government has disbursed support to day secondary school learners as leaders castigated the controller of budget for discontinuing the programme despite its importance. Governor Irungu Kang’ata disbursed in excess of Sh50 million to support learners in the Inua Masomo programme initiated to created competition among themselves. Speaking at General…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Above 102.92 million kgs of tea have been sold between January and March through the Mombasa Tea Auction, to 58 destinations around the globe. In a report by the Tea Board of Kenya (TBK), in March the KTDA factories, independent producers and estates produced 37.9 million kgs, compared to 54.3 million…
