Policemen make way for a prison van after a security raid at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s headquarters in Islamabad on July 22, 2024. [AFP] By AFP More than 200 Pakistani inmates escaped from a jail in the mega coastal city of Karachi on Tuesday after several earthquake tremors, government officials said. Of the 216 inmates…
Photo/ People take part in a protest organised by the Sudanese People’s Alliance against US sanctions in front of the UN headquarters in Port Sudan on May 29, 2025.[AFP] By AFP More than four million people have fled Sudan since the start of the conflict in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, calling the figure…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke A section of residents in Gachagi village in Maragua constituency are seeking for state intervention to end a controversy on land ownership with Kakuzi PLC limited. The squatters in Makuyu recounts that an agreement entered between them and Kakuzi they all settled, which was not honoured. The recounted that out of…
Photo/MKU Pro-Chancellor and university council chairman, Dr Vincent Gaitho (left) during the conference held in Dunhuang, China, last week. Photo; courtesyBy James Wakahiu To achieve the tenets of global ecological actions, the world must rethink the desires for accumulation, conquest, domination, material and power supremacy. These ecological actions in the world today revolve around the…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Already 1,694 coffee farmers have received Sh93.3 million from the Coffee Cherry Fund kitty sourced from the New KPCU last month. In a report, New KPCU between May 19 and May 26, disbursed the amount to growers affiliated to cooperative societies in 17 counties, where farmers from Gatukuyu farmers cooperative society…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Murang’a County Government has unveiled a multi million shillings avocado packhouse, designed to add value to the internationally demanded fruit from Kenya. Governor Irungu Kang’ata said the unveiled a packhouse will assist in providing the farmers with better prices, owing to the value addition. The facility is located at Ng’araria following…
The Mountain Journal, Nanyuki editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Win for Nginyii residents in Laikipia after the National Environment Tribunal allowed the installation of solar powered electric fence along Timau river, to end the human wildlife conflict. It was a blow to the 10 investors under the Lolldaiga Southern Border Landowners as the tribunal ordered the Lolldaiga PLC Limited…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Kisii: Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has defended the government’s economic empowerment drive, pledging comprehensive support for thousands of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to boost growth and increase household incomes. He said the government is working for all Kenyans, regardless of how they voted thus initiating developments in all regions. Addressing…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Death of Prof Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has affected many Kenyans who recounted how they encountered him during their early years. Hundreds of Kenyans took on their social media platforms to celebrate the deceased as a brave person who communicated through literature. Mlife President Mwangi Mukami says he met the Ngugi in…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The British High Commissioner to Kenya Neil Wigan held talks with Murang’a Governor Irungu Kang’ata that centred on strategies to promote development, focusing at value addition of agricultural produce. The envoy was briefed on the county government strategy to industrialisation focusing on job opportunities ahead of the Murang’a investment conference slated…
