A UK company, Camellia Group, agreed to settle legal claims from a number of Kenyan and Malawian women over gross human rights abuses and rape allegations. The firm’s guards have been accused of committing atrocities ranging from killings, rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence. The Macadamia, tea …
Read More »Kenya: panic in the parliament after a MP carries gun
There was a scare on Thursday when a Kenyan member of parliament said colleagues were unsafe during proceedings because one member was armed. The MP, Elisha Odhiambo, informed the speaker that he had seen what looked like a gun behind the coat of his colleague, Mohamed Ali. Speaker Justin Muturi …
Read More »More virus cases recorded at British military camp in Kenya
In a British military training camp in Kenya, the number of positive Covid-19 cases has risen from 4 to 11, amid concerns from locals about its spread. The British army says all soldiers who arrived at Nanyuki base last month were still in isolation. An army spokesman says 320 military …
Read More »Gregory Dow jailed for sex crimes in Kenya orphanage
An American has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for abusing underage girls in a Kenyan orphanage. Christian missionary Gregory Dow set up the orphanage with his wife in 2008. “Gregory Dow was the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing,” said the FBI’s Michael Driscoll. Last year, Dow …
Read More »Doses of Oxford vaccine are expected in Kenya next month
According to the Reuters news agency, Kenya expects to receive 24 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University next month. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said the vaccines were ordered through an African Union (AU) initiative. The British Foreign minister, Dominic Raab, who is in the …
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