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Devastating Fire Destroys Toi Market, Millions in Losses

Adewale A. — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 07:57:34 +0000

This morning, A catastrophic fire devastated Toi Market in Kibra, Nairobi, resulting in extensive property damage valued at millions of shillings. The blaze erupted early in the day, rapidly engulfing the market and obliterating stalls and goods. Despite the valiant efforts of residents and traders to control the flames, the fire proved too powerful, leading [...]

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President Tinubu back to Nigeria after AU Summit in Kenya, Nairobi

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:30:38 +0000

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after spending the weekend in Kenya for the African Union’s 5th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting. At 4:20 on Monday afternoon, his plane landed at the Presidential Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, was among the crowd of [...]

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Cholera Outbreak: Kenyan Government shuts Two Hotels

Alaba Rotimi — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:49:24 +0000

Two major hotels in Nairobi, Jacaranda and San Valencia, have been closed down indefinitely in the wake of cholera outbreak. According to Africa Review, Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Cleopa Mailu on Wednesday announced the closure of the hotels. The two hotels are said to have offered catering services at events where participants were later [...]

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2baba To Take Lucky Fans On Trip To Nairobi

David Folami — Fri, 06 May 2016 09:42:12 +0000

Music legend, 2Face Idibia has announced that he will take some fans to Nairobi, Kenya on an all-expense paid, week-long trip. 2Face who made this announcement yesterday, Thursday, May 5, 2016 on his Instagram page says he will select the fans via a dance competition tagged “Trip and Treat Trip 2016”. According to him, rather [...]

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Kenyan Police blame Nairobi university for failed Terror Drill

AMA — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:45:01 +0000

Kenyan police have blamed a Nairobi university for failing to gain the appropriate authorisation from authorities prior to holding a simulated “terror” drill that led to the death of a staff member. Strathmore University apologised “unreservedly” on Tuesday for the incident a day earlier, where local police helped the school test its emergency procedures by [...]

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Mass Panic among Staff and Students as Kenyan university stages Terror Drill

AMA — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:56:55 +0000

A security drill at a Nairobi university has caused mass panic among staff and students after security forces used what many thought was live ammunition to stage a pretend attack on the school. Social media went into overdrive on Monday afternoon as security forces simulated an attack against Strathmore University’s Madaraka campus in the Kenyan [...]

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Kenyan Government arrests two men linked to Iranian Spy Network

AMA — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:27:58 +0000

Kenya has arrested two men it says are connected to an Iranian intelligence network that was planning an attack inside the country. A Twitter account run by the Kenyan interior ministry said the men were planning a “terror attack” in the capital Nairobi and had travelled to Iran last month. The men were identified as [...]

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Pope Francis kicks off Africa Trip with Peace Message

AMA — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:21:57 +0000

Pope Francis has called for ethnic and religious reconciliation after arriving in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, at the start of his landmark three-nation Africa tour. In what is his first official trip to the continent, the pope called all Kenyans on Wednesday to work for peace and forgiveness and warned of the need to address [...]

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Recycling: Kenya Turns Rubbish Into Cash

AMA — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:21:42 +0000

Nairobi – Used plastic is being given a new lease on life in Kenya. It is melted and then used to make poles for construction and road signs. The concept is still new in Kenya – and expensive given the manufacturing costs – but the poles are slowly changing the landscape. http://bc05.ajnm.me/665003303001/201511/276/665003303001_4626741965001_20151122-KenRecycle-HMU-nostraps.mp4 By Haru Mutasa [...]

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The day they came to kill me – Abdalle Mumin

AMA — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 07:53:06 +0000

Nairobi, Kenya – Abdalle Mumin is still looking over his shoulder, even after months spent in what he calls “exile”. The Somali journalist rarely leaves his safe house. He checks his phone constantly. Sometimes he turns it off or switches sim cards, just to make sure. Sitting stone-faced in a darkened office – blinds drawn [...]

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Kenya police arrest more than 650 after bomb blasts

Ade Adewale — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:35:55 +0000

Kenyan police have arrested more than 650 suspects a day after six people were killed in bomb attacks in the capital Nairobi, the interior minister said Tuesday, in a crackdown on suspected Islamist insurgents. "This act of cowardice perpetrated against…

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IBM Brings Watson and other Cognitive Systems to Africa

Adewale A. — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:11:43 +0000

$100M "Project Lucy" Initiative Heralds New Era of Data-Driven Development LAGOS, Nigeria and NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa in a…

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How the US lost South Sudan

Ade Adewale — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:58:13 +0000

NAIROBI, Kenya — Few countries have invested as much goodwill and diplomatic energy in the birth of South Sudan as the United States. And few presidents have tied their legacies more tightly to the fledgling nation than George W. Bush, for whom the…

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In just four days, Nairobi will be the East African capital of the food processing and packaging industry

Adewale A. — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:40:00 +0000

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In just four days, Nairobi will be the East African capital of the food processing and packaging industry. From the 26th to 28th of November the KICC will be the venue for the first Food Processing & Packaging Exposyum – FPPE 2013 (http://www.fppe-ke.com). Logo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/banniere.png Download [...]

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