The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The celebrated Smart City initiative that has transformed rural markets in Murang’a has been recognised by the town planners. The two year old initiative spearheaded by the county government was described as the enya’s top-performing devolved units and Governor Irungu Kang’ata received the County and Towns Excellence Award 2025 in recognition…
By BBC Protesters have taken to the streets in Tanzania for a third day, defying warnings from the country’s army chief to end the unrest. Demonstrations have been taking place in major cities with young protesters denouncing Wednesday’s election as unfair as key opposition figures were excluded from contesting against President Samia Suluhu Hassan. An…
By James Wakahiu, Thika editor@themountainjournal.co.ke National Assembly Committee on Housing, Urban Planning and Public Works visited of ongoing National Government Projects in Thika Town constituency. The committee was taken around the projects by area MP Alice Wambui Nga’ng’a inspected the Bustani and Kings Boma Affordable housing projects that she said once completed they will be…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) generated Sh 411.8 million after the auction of 7,135 bags of coffee during the weekly market. The market fetched less compared to Sh 565.4 million of last week after the sale of 8,674 bags of coffee. In the auction, 10 coffee brokers participated offering 1,069 bags…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The directors from the east of the rift have accused the Agriculture Principal Secretary Dr Kiprono Rono for playing politics misleading the farmers in the west on the bonus payment. The KTDA directors led by Gatundu South MP Gabriel Kagombe are calling for his exit from the Ministry of agriculture for…
Photo/PLO Lumumba addressing students at the Mwai Kibaki Convention Hall, Mount Kenya University. By James Wakahiu Renowned legal scholar and governance expert Prof PLO Lumumba has raised alarm over the rising cases of tribal rhetoric and political polarization in the country, warning that the country risks slipping into dangerous ethnic divisions if the trend is…
Photo/Left to right: Siani Malama, Business Development Director – Insurance, VisionFund International, María Mateo, CEO & Co-Founder, IBISA with Jacobeth Barno, Principal Officer, APA Microinsurance , Joseph Ogutu, Chairman, APA Microinsurance, and Reuben Mwaura, CEO, VisionFund Kenya, at the launch of ClimaCash+ and AfyaCash. The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Nairobi, Kenya 23 October 2025 – APA Microinsurance, in partnership with VisionFund Kenya, the financial…
Photo/Judy Ngayu, the Director MKU Institute of International and Development Law (IIDLAW) with Suluhu Mediation Center Director Maina Migwi during the graduation ceremony of 27 Certified Professional Mediators in Nairobi. By James Wakahiu editor@themountainjournal.co.keStakeholders have raised concerns over shortage of mediators in the country amid a growingdemand for mediation services.The country, with a population of…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Coffee farmers with the larger Kangema, Murang’a boycotted harvesting their coffee demanding immediate closure of a coffee pulping factory, implicated with coffee hawking. The farmers drawn from Iyego, New Kiriti and Kangunu cooperative societies among others accused the authorities over allowing the establishment of Marga factory and purchase of coffee cherries,…
By James Wakahiu editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Eight years after introduction of the Competence Based Curriculum to replace the 8-4-4 education system, the country is now breeding a generation of critical thinkers and problem solvers. Josephine Wanjiku, an educationist and a don at Kenya Methodist University (KeMU) says that the new curriculum, now referred as Competence Based Education…
