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Challenges faced by journalists during the covid-19 pandemic

Did you as a journalist face any major challenges during the covid-19 pandemic? We clearly had little time to review and research about the pandemic before i...

What you need to know about the new Omicron covid-19 variant

In the past week, there's been growing concerns about the new Covid-19 variant dubbed the "Omicron variant" that has originated from South Africa although other...

How covid-19 influenced consumer spending habits

In some ways, the covid-19 pandemic has shifted our shopping and spending patterns positively. Fear of Covid-19 infections, the strict social distancing meas...

The future of work after the covid-19 pandemic

What is the future of work after the pandemic? The covid-19 pandemic caused a huge shift on to full-time remote working after many offices were closed down ...

Kenya receives additional doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

Kenya has yet again received a consignment of 504,000 additional doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine just two weeks after receiving another consig...

Kenya receives 880,460 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, a major boost to vaccination efforts

Kenya on Monday received 880,460 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in yet another boost to the ongoing vaccination drive that targets to vaccinate 10 million p...

Africa CDC to Host the Inaugural Annual Conference on Public Health in Africa from 14-16 December

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (www.AfricaCDC.org) has announced that the 1st International Conference on Public Health in A...

Kenya’s Post Covid Recovery has to be People -Centered NOT Coal- Centered

A post covid recovery plan should prioritise people and not a polluting coal industry, this is according to Greenpeace Africa. The Kenyan budget outlining the g...

CMA and KEPSA sign MoU to support market deepening and uptake of capital market products

The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) to support market deepening a...

Culture among the sectors badly affected by Corona pandemic- UNESCO

90% of countries were forced to close or partially close their World Heritage sites at the height of the Corona pandemic. In 2020, a 66% drop in site visitation...

The Impact of Covid-19 on Women and Girls with disabilities

Covid -19 has really affected people in a hard way and among the badly hit are women and girls with disabilities who have struggled to meet their basic needs, a...

Kenya decries inequalities in the availability, access and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

The government of Kenya has decried the inequalities in the availability, access, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines as the numbers stand at 166,000 confi...

Solving the digital health divide in Africa through scaled up public-private support for digital innovation

Digital innovation is vital for the advancement of African economies and their health services, but to make this possible certain large stumbling blocks need to...

The Rising Covid-19 Cases in The Third Wave of The Pandemic

In the past few weeks, Kenya has registered an increase in the positivity rate of covid-19 up to about 22 per cent from 5 per cent in the previous period. De...

Most Kenyans state that they will be worse off financially if the spread of Covid-19 continues

The negative impact of Covid-19 on the country’s economy continues to be felt across the country in almost all households. It is said that nine out of ten Kenya...