By BBC An ambitious initiative to vaccinate all livestock in Kenya is due to kick off this week amid fierce resistance from farmers that is being driven by misleading claims about the vaccines. It will cost farmers nothing to get their animals vaccinated as the government says it is footing the bill. But Robert Nkukuu,…
By BBC President Donald Trump travelled to California on Friday to survey the destruction from deadly wildfires that devastated several communities in the Los Angeles area earlier this month. The visit, coming at the end of Trump’s first week back in office, took place as he continued to denounce the state emergency response being led…
President Donald Trump has ordered a crackdown on illegal immigration. The lawmakers green-lit a bill to expand pretrial incarceration for foreign criminal suspects. he Laken Riley Act — which mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with theft-related crimes — is named for a 22-year-old student murdered by a Venezuelan man with no papers who…
The County Government of Kirinyaga has partnered with the National Government in training ofbutchers on hides and skins handling as part of an initiative to grow the leather industry.The training that was conducted at Kibingo Slaughterhouse in Kerugoya brought together 197butchers and flayers as well as 20 members of staff working in the county’s livestock…
By BBC Donald Trump has warned he will impose high tariffs and further sanctions on Russia if Vladimir Putin fails to end the war in Ukraine. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, he said that by pushing to settle the war he was doing Russia and its president a “very big favour”. Trump…
The mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke ‘ It was the first time for the Kangunu factory to market its coffee at the NCE’ . A second time in a month the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) has earned the farmers Sh1.5 billion after the sale of 27,864 bags of coffee. The weekly sale was less than Sh1.7 billion…
Elon Musk has caused outrage over a one-armed gesture he gave during a speech celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump. Musk thanked the crowd for “making it happen”, before placing his right hand over his heart and then thrusting the same arm out into air straight ahead of him. He then turned and repeated the…
US President Donald Trump was sworn in for a historic second term, pledging a blitz of immediate orders on immigration and the US culture wars as he caps his extraordinary comeback. “Welcome home,” Biden said to Trump as he and First Lady Jill Biden greeted their successors at the front door to the presidential residence….
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Murang’a County Government has initiated the Inua Masomo Programme, to transform and enhance access to education. The programme rolled out in the 256 day schools will promote academic excellence among students in Day Secondary Schools. Launching the programme at Kiria ini Girls High school, Governor Irungu Kang’ata said the programme will…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Tea factories generated Sh1.6 billion after the auction of 5,119,905 kilos at the Mombasa Tea Auction. The report states that in 70 tea factories, in this year’s second weekly auction, a kilogram of tea fetched an average of Sh331 per kg. In the auction conducted on January 13 and January 14,…
