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Tigania gang terrorises residents
Residents of Buuri sublocation in Tigania East district staged demonstrations protesting against a gang that has been kidnapping people fighting archaic traditional practices. The gang kidnaps people who oppose female genital mutilation and support an alternative rite of passage for boys. They have been harassing human rights activists and kidnapping women who have refused to undergo the cut and men who have not passed through traditiona...
Amref launches project in Garissa
Amref has launched a five-year health project in Iftin sub district hospital in Garissa district. Officially launching the programme yesterday, country director Lennie Kyomuhangi said, “People living in semi-arid lands are bedevilled by a life characterised by social and gender inequalities within a hierarchical clan system. “There is an unequal labor force, early marriages, polygamy, female genita...
Kitui clerk to clarify market dispute
The Kitui County Council clerk will issue a statement on an alleged scam in which a plot at Mutomo Market has been grabbed. Douglas Obiria said he will clarify the issue. “This issue has been in the public domain for long and in the next one or two weeks I will make a public statement even if it means having a public baraza at Mutomo,” Obiria said. The media has for the last two months carried stories on the alleged grabbing ...
Pay Machakos town squatters – aspirant
Machakos county senator aspirant Boniface Kabaka has urged the government to compensate hundreds of Kiima Kimwe squatters who have been driven out of government land in Machakos town. Kabaka said the squatters had been living there for decades and need alternative land or monetary compensation. He said it is absurd that the squatters are engaging the police in frequent run-ins where people have been injured and crops destroyed and that an amic...
Ministry launches fish farming plan
The government has constructed more than 300 fish ponds in 160 constituencies in five years, the Fisheries ministry has said. Speaking during the launch of the National Fish Farming Programme in Learning Institutions at Kithirune Girls Secondary School in Meru Central district, Fisheries PS Micheni Ntiba said the government has spent Sh6 billion on fish farming. “We have experienced enormous economic benefits from the fish farm...
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