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IFFK to honour Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu with Spirit of Cinema Award

Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu to receive 'Spirit of Cinema' award at 28th IFFK. Award honours filmmakers who use cinema as a weapon of struggle against injustice. Kahiu's films challenge conservative values, fight legal battles for freedom of expression.

The Hindu

OPINION - Trapped in History by Nicholas Rankin review: The horrors of empire are within living memory

They used to say the sun never set on the British Empire because God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark. And when darkness fell on the empire after the Second World War, that was proven unsettlingly true. While politicians in the post-war period spoke of a “wind of change”…

Evening Standard

Death toll from floods in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia rises to 130

At least 130 people have died in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains that triggered what aid agencies describe as flooding seen only once every 100 years

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Kenyan court blocks police mission to Haiti despite parliament's approval

The Kenyan parliament on Thursday approved the deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help deal with rising gang violence in the Caribbean nation – but later on the same day, the High Court upheld its stay on the process.

Radio France Internationale

Indigenous people and climate change: With the Guna when the oceans rise (4/4)

FRANCE 24 brings you the stories of people on the front lines of climate change. From Kenya to Panama via Greenland and Australia, our reporters James André and Achraf Abid went to meet the Indigenous people who live in harmony with nature and whose daily lives are being turned upside…

France 24

Kenya's high court extends a block on sending police to Haiti even as parliament approves deployment

Kenya’s high court has extended orders blocking the deployment of police officers to Haiti

The Independent UK

Petrochemical industry joins global talks to agree plastic pollution treaty

The world is halfway towards a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, as negotiators in Kenya spend this week debating the best way to slash the waste building up in oceans and ecosystems. Plastic is largely made from fossil fuels, which means oil-rich countries have a significant stake.

Radio France Internationale

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Elephants give each other names — the 1st non-human animals to do so, study claims

Elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park appear to call to each other with individual names using low, complex "rumbles," a study has found.

LiveScience

Nations convene in Kenya to hammer out treaty on plastic pollution

Delegates mulling two options: a wide-ranging strategy that would target plastics production or a limited approach.

Al Jazeera

‘It was incredible to see’: Kenyans dig deep on first national tree planting day

Government sets up national holiday in hope of planting 15bn trees by 2032 to tackle climate crisis and deforestation

The Guardian - UK

Kenyans struggle to make ends meet despite election promises

Kenya’s president William Ruto has acknowledged that his government is having a tough time in delivering what it promised in the campaign leading up to the elections.

Radio France Internationale

Nations gather in Nairobi to hammer out treaty on plastic pollution

Efforts to create a landmark treaty to end global plastic pollution advance Monday in Nairobi as most of the world’s nations, petrochemical companies, environmentalists and others affected by the pollution gather to discuss draft language for the first time

The Independent UK

Negotiating an end to plastic pollution, with global treaty

Representatives from more than 170 nations are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, from Monday to negotiate what concrete measures should be included in a binding worldwide treaty to end plastic pollution.

Radio France Internationale

William Ruto's first year: he promised to make life easier for Kenyans, but things got worse

It’s more than a year since President William Ruto was sworn into office as Kenya’s fifth president. He assumed power at a time when Kenya was beset by rising food and fuel prices, high unemployment and a worrying debt burden.

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We need a global treaty to solve plastic pollution – acid rain and ozone depletion show us why

After years of discussion, international negotiations on a global plastics treaty resume this week in Nairobi, Kenya, at the UN Environment Programme headquarters.

The Guardian - UK

Countries meet in Kenya to thrash out global plastic pollution treaty

Delegates in Nairobi for talks in what experts say could be most important multilateral treaty since Paris accord

The Conversation

Africa-US trade: Agoa deal expires in 2025 - an expert unpacks what it's achieved in 23 years

African governments are seeking an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) beyond 2025. The law was enacted in 2000 to “encourage increased trade and investment between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa”. We asked David Luke, who specialises in African trade policy and trade negotiations, what benefits…

The Guardian - UK

‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter

Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother

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Kenya doomsday cult leader found guilty of illegal filming, but yet to be charged over mass deaths

The Kenyan preacher of a doomsday cult who was arrested after more than 400 bodies were found in mass graves on his property has been convicted of operating a studio and distributing films without a license

France 24

Indigenous people and climate change: With Aboriginal Australians when the bush burns (3/4)

The Conversation

Visa-free travel for Africans: why Kenya and Rwanda have taken a step in the right direction

President William Ruto of Kenya recently announced that Kenya’s borders would be open to visitors from the entirety of Africa, with no visas required, by the end of 2023. He said

The Guardian - UK

Lunch is served: meet the team behind Nairobi’s vast school meals kitchen

As the Kenyan city sleeps, chefs, cleaners, drivers and loaders get to work preparing 60,000 meals to serve children as part of the largest school meals programme in Africa

The Independent UK

Kenya says it won't deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding

Kenya says it won't deploy its police officers to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U

The Conversation

Turkana stone beads tell a story of herder life in a drying east Africa 5,000 years ago

On the shores of Lake Turkana in east Africa, about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, pastoralists buried their dead in communal cemeteries that were marked by stone circles and pillars. The north-west Kenya “pillar sites” were built around the same time as Stonehenge in the UK. But these places have…

The Guardian - UK

‘We are living in absolute fear’: call to stop Indigenous evictions in Rift Valley

Human rights groups demand Kenyan government halt forced evictions of Ogiek community from Mau forest

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