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Hyundai strengthens gear levers after bizarre Tanak failure

Hyundai Motorsport has strengthened its gear levers after Ott Tanak suffered a bizarre failure that prompted an impressive on the road fix to keep his Safari Rally Kenya hopes alive.

Autosport

Loeb retires as Rovanpera takes early Safari Rally lead

Naivasha (Kenya) (AFP) - Former world motor rally champion Sebastian Loeb retired from the Safari Rally in Kenya with engine trouble on Friday, making a second successive early exit to his selective WRC campaign.

AFP

Between Kenya and Uganda, an undecided border (3/4)

Located on Lake Victoria in East Africa, Migingo is the most densely populated island in the world. Covering an area smaller than a football pitch, the tiny island is home to several hundred people from Uganda and Kenya. Both countries have territorial claims on this piece of land located near…

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Tribal Tensions Challenge Christian Unity During Kenyan Elections

This round, the church is in a unique position to be an agent of healing and reconciliation.

Zenger

Belgium returns tooth taken in 1961 from slain Congolese icon

Relatives of murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba attend a sombre ceremony in Brussels as Belgium returns his tooth. It's all that remains of him after his assassination in 1961. Also, Kenya has no reproductive health legislation but the public is going to have its say on a regional bill…

France 24

Autosport Podcast: WRC Safari Rally preview

This weekend the World Rally Championship is set for arguably its toughest event of the season, courtesy of an annual trip to Safari Rally Kenya.

Autosport

How Kenya's degree requirement for top political posts turned into a fiasco

The rush for academic credentials is nothing new ahead of a Kenyan election. Candidates are challenged about the existence or validity of their university degrees, and controversy is common.

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Roam To Roll Out Budget-Friendly Utility Electric Motorbikes Soon

Kenyan-Swedish startup Roam Motors hopes to launch a budget-friendly, utility-focused electric motorcycle soon.

InsideEVs

Tanzania charges 20 Maasai with murder after police officer dies during protests

Lawyers say government is attempting to intimidate pastoralists as thousands flee to Kenya amid escalating row over evictions

The Guardian - UK

Young women's memoirs of migration, dispossession and Australian 'unbelonging' demand to be heard

Akuch Kuol Anyieth was born into a world of violence. Her memoir begins at the age of five, when she fled with her mother and her three siblings from civil war in South Sudan to a refugee camp in north-west Kenya.

The Conversation

How Nairobi police failures let people get away with murder

At least one person gets killed every two days in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Most of these cases are never resolved. Only 94 murder cases were registered in Nairobi courts in 2021.

The Conversation

No limits: Campaign spending spikes ahead of Kenyan elections

The Parliamentary Budget Office has warned that campaign spending could lead to possible inflation in the country.

Al Jazeera

M-Sport: Permanent WRC cockpit heat solution shouldn't be rushed

The World Rally Championship and the FIA shouldn’t rush to find a permanent fix to address increased cockpit temperatures with Rally1 cars, according to M-Sport boss Richard Millener.

Autosport

Africa to soon produce its own Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa

In tonight's edition: A new deal paves the way for the development of the first African-owned Covid-19 vaccines. Cape Town-based Afrigen is working with a Belgian biotech company to develop mRNA shots. Also, Kenya has no reproductive health legislation but the public is going to give its input on a…

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Want to run for office in Kenya? Here's how much it'll cost you

Kenya’s constitution provides for election of the president and 47 governors to head the executive organs at national and county levels, respectively. Also to be elected are legislators: 47 senators, 290 MPs and 1,450 members of county assemblies. There is fierce competition for these posts, not just between parties but…

Autosport

WRC Safari Rally: Everything you need to know

The World Rally Championship heads to Africa as Safari Rally Kenya hosts Round 6 of the 2022 season this weekend. Here's everything you need to know.

Al Jazeera

Analysis: How Kenyatta won over a foe and lost his deputy

Instead of healing rifts, a 2018 truce between the president and his longtime rival opened up new faults.

Reuters

Odinga's running mate in Kenyan election promises corruption crackdown if elected

The alliance led by Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga will come down hard on corruption if it wins in August, his running mate Martha Karua said, but dismissed her nickname "Iron Lady" as a sexist trope directed at tough women leaders.

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Loeb expecting "complicated" WRC Safari Rally return

Sebastien Loeb says a lack of experience of the revamped Safari Rally will make a long awaited return to the iconic World Rally Championship event complicated.

Al Jazeera

Fifty days to D-day: The men vying to become Kenya’s next president

The two main challengers remain opposition leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto.

Zenger

Choosing Joy Over Happiness: Why An American Doctor Remained In War-Torn Sudan

Should happiness be the focus of one’s life, or something deeper?

Radio France Internationale

Kenyan farmers test 'smart' fences to curb elephant invasions

Francis Kamau boasts a large farm in the beautiful Laikipia County plains in Kenya. Each year as he prepares his land for the next crop season, a nagging question refuses to leave his mind: “Will my crop survive an elephant attack?”

The Guardian - UK

Blind Kenyan singer goes to court over rejected presidential candidacy

Reuben Kigame’s campaign team claims the Electoral Commission discriminated against him because of his disability

Asharq Al-Awsat

Child Malnutrition Soars in Ethiopia as Drought Worsens

Tens of thousands of children in Ethiopia are suffering from the "most deadly" form of malnutrition as prolonged drought ravages the east and south of the country, British charity Save the Children said Thursday. Four consecutive rainy seasons have failed in the Horn of Africa, with a fifth also expected…

Reuters

Kenya calls for immediate deployment of regional force to eastern Congo

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called for the immediate deployment of a new regional military force to try to stop rebel violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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