Kenya

Kinangop Grasslands Kenya: A birds paradise now lost to farming

Njambini Kenya: The Kinangop Plateau is located about an hour and a half’s drive from Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city. It is located in the midst of the catchment region between the Aberdares/Nyandarua mountain range and Lake Naivasha. The grassland was originally 70 000 hectares of treeless tussocky grasses, bogs, and marshlands. Today, only around 10%…

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Slow climate disaster recovery dims hope in Kenya and Mozambique

Intense floods, cyclones, and drought, have devastated many sub-Saharan African countries, this year. As temperature rise, so does the losses in livelihoods and damages to key infrastructure hampering development and country planning. In Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, rains have failed consecutively. By March 2022, more than 13 million people were severely food insecure. Tropical storms…

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A Kenyan school taking the extra mile to raise school fees for its needy students.

A recent report on education by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) shows that 1 in every three families in Kenya and Uganda borrows money for school fees. Meet vulnerable students from Njumbi High school in Murang’a county in central Kenya whose parents cannot afford to raise their school fees since joining…

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No, Mental Illness is not Madness

In today’s episode, we talk to Elias Fondo, the Kilifi County Mental Health Clinical officer, Leonard Nasoro, a mental health specialist, and a nurse at the Kilifi County Hospital. They tell us that uncertainty due to changing weather leads to anxiety and fear, dragging communities deeper into poverty. How?. why is there is no health…

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Climate change dragging Kenyans into poverty killing them?

Aftermaths of a landslide in Muranga county after heavy rains. Nearly three years ago, on a rainy Thursday night at around midnight, 39-year-old Mary Wambui clung to her unborn baby.  “The rain was too heavy! The lightning and thunderstorms were terrifying. My husband was not at home. I felt an unexplained fear for my sons,”…

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