KEPHIS Boosts Avocado Growers Eyeing the Chinese Market
March 27, 2022… Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services (KEPHIS) has stepped up field audits and facility inspections for more than ten avocado growers and exporters planning to explore the Chinese market. In a strategic trade facilitation effort, KEPHIS has completed the required phytosanitary assessments. The trade facilitation undertaking by KEPHIS is expected to unlock the […]
China’s ‘No. 1 central document’ a lighthouse for Africa’s rural development
The release of China’s “No. 1 central document” for 2022 on rural vitalization on February 22 has drawn a lot of interest from Africa’s policy makers, particularly those in the agricultural sector and rural development. The document is a blueprint of the country’s intentions in rural development focusing on agriculture and farmers. The annual ritual […]
BRI steadily releases Kenya’s socio-economic potential
Due to its geopolitical strategic position and stable political environment, Kenya is a darling of many foreign partners. The country has survived civil turmoil in a region that has occasionally been fraught with both internal and cross-border violence.
China’s footprint in the fight against climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic has diverted the world’s attention from the previous focus on environmental destruction. In addition, a lot of resources aimed at fighting climate change were reallocated in alleviating the social and economic damages of the pandemic.
Philippines Conducts First-Ever Book Donation To Kenya National Library Service
Philippines Ambassador Alex Chua (right) and KNLS Acting Deputy Director Dr. Charles Nzivo during the handover ceremony of the Philippine book donations. Nairobi – The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi donated a total of 76 Philippine-published books and musical compilation albums to the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) on 29 October 2021, marking its first-ever book […]
New IPCC report – What we must do to stop the imminent climate Armageddon
It is not the first time that environmentalists have warned about the impending catastrophe awaiting the human race as a result of climate change. But there is renewed urgency in the “devastating” newly released UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report on Monday. The IPCC report warns that we are running out […]
Why the attack on indigenous people is leaving the world poorer
May will remain etched in the memory of the world as the month when more unmarked graves of indigenous children were discovered at the site of what was once Canada’s largest residential school for them, compulsory, funded by the government and run by the church. At the last tally there were over 1,100 such graves […]
Vaccine colonialism meets vaccine cooperation
The “First Meeting of the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation” is set for August 5. For obvious reasons, the conference will be held by video link. Not all countries are at par yet in containing the coronavirus pandemic, which necessitates social distancing and restriction on travelling across borders. The theme for this inaugural event […]