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…
A section of Lol Daiga Conservancy which the British soldier helped to putt after a fire broke in 2021. By BBC A British soldier accused of raping a woman near a controversial army camp in Kenya has been sent back to the UK, as investigations continue, the BBC understands. The alleged rape happened last month close…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Smallholder tea factories earned the farmers Sh 1,224,011,360 following the auction of 5,884,670kgs. Report from the Mombasa tea auction reflects that the last week’s performance was higher compared to the previous sales of Sh1,137,972,780 following the sale of 5,418,918 kgs. In the weekly market, the factories that auctioned their tea at…
By BBC/Farouk Chothia Microsoft founder Bill Gates says that most of his fortune will be spent on improving health and education services in Africa over the next 20 years. The 69-year-old said that “by unleashing human potential through health and education, every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity”. Speaking in Ethiopia’s…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Teacher Service Commission (TSC) CEO Nancy Macharia has begun the journey to retirement in anticipation to leave the office on June 30, 2025. The commission has appointed Evaleen Mitei as to replace her in acting capacity, as search for the replacement starts. She has been at the helm since 2015 after taking…
