BY DPCS Deputy President Kithure Kindiki says coffee farmers will earn more this year owing to key interventions by the government that have improved production and increased returns. The Deputy President said the estimated projection is at Sh110 per kg of cherry this year which is almost double what farmers received when the Kenya Kwanza…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) this week auctioned 2,092,764 kilograms of coffee earning the farmers in cooperatives and estates Sh1.9 billion. Nyeri based Kiundu factory affiliated to Mutheka cooperative society attained the highest price of Sh57,494 per bag of Grade AA, brokered by the Alliance Berries Limited. Other factories that achieved…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Provision of clean water has uplifted Maragua town to grow after decades of stagnation owing to shortage of the commodity sourced from Maragua In two years have benefited with water after Maragua was neglected in the supply. Two years ago, President William Ruto in a tour of Murang’a county directed that…
Scores of people in Majengo area in Nairobi have been wounded after a street battle with the police following killing of one person yesterday. Today, in revenge, protestors torched a police vehicle and burned police houses, as the chaos intensified four people were shot dead.
ByNalini Sivathasan, Patrick Clahane & Debula Kemoli BBC News Investigations & Africa Eye TikTok is profiting from sexual livestreams performed by teens as young as 15, the BBC has been told. We spoke to three women in Kenya who said they began this activity as teenagers. They told us they used TikTok to openly advertise…
Confusion has gripped the macadamia sector after the government outlawed export of their raw nuts to the foreign markets. Already, the farmers are feeling the pitch after the price of the lucrative commodity has dropped from Sh140 per kilogramme to between Sh 110 and Sh90 per kilogramme. The fluctuating price follows a directive by Agriculture…
Kirinyaga County is set to revolutionize emergency care system with the construction of a post-crash trauma center at Sagana Subcounty hospital.The new cutting-edge facility is being constructed with the aim of providing rapid, life-savingtreatment to accident victims mainly along Murang’a-Sagana, Kenol-marua, Sagana-Kagio-Kutus and Makutano-Embu highways among others.The groundbreaking project that is expected to be complete…
Jennifer McKiernan Political reporter, BBC News Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK and France is to work with Ukraine “on a plan to stop the fighting” with Russia – and will then “discuss that plan with the United States”. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is due at a summit of European leaders, two…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke A Chief in Mathioya has been engaging the youth in his location in a strategy to reduce crime and other antisocial behaviours. David Waiganjo, has managed to transform the young in his Gitugi location through regular engagement. Waiganjo is a role model to the youth who serves the residents between 8am …
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Mombasa tea auction has auctioned 11,387,803 kgs from five neighbouring countries with Kenya presenting 9,402,749 kg sourced from KTDA factories and independent producers. In the auction market, the KTDA factories earned Sh 1,380,167,589 from the sale of 5,169, 167 kgs as Ngere factory growers fetched Sh 64,988,976 after the sale of…
