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Google Shares Its African Product Development Center Debut Plans

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google invested in its Africa product development center debut in Nairobi, looking to host 800 million internet users and a third of the world's youth population by 2030. Its peer, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT), also invested in technology development hubs in Kenya and Nigeria, pumping $100 million and hiring hundreds of engineers…

Benzinga

20 million risk starvation as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN

Nairobi (AFP) - Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday.

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A day in the life of a worker at Dandora, Nairobi's main dumping ground

Kenyan Sharon Atieno, 23, considers herself a busy woman. She believes in the saying 'the early bird catches the worm', and every day she leaves her Nairobi home at the crack of dawn to go to work. She is one of the waste collectors at the expansive Dandora dumping site…

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S2,EP16: Kenya's waste-pickers, Cameroon's rising prices, and Uganda's antibiotic problem

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In Kenya, waste-pickers in Nairobi are worried about their livelihoods as politicians discuss a new dump site; Ugandan consumers are misusing antibiotics, which has had a knock-on effect for the country…

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Projects like Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway can unlock development

Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, which links Nairobi and Mombasa, East Africa’s largest port, was built to ease the pressure on the road network. Construction started in 2013 and was completed in 2017, with an extension in 2019. The line transports passengers as well as cargo. It makes the trip between…

The Conversation

The Kenyan company turning trash into cash

Finding a gap in the industry, Kenyan entrepreneurs Mohamud Omari and Rashid Omari founded a Kenyan-made pencil company, manufacturing hundreds of thousands of pencils every year from recycled newspaper at their factory in Nairobi.

Radio France Internationale

Six people killed in suspected bomb blast in Goma, DR Congo

In this edition of Eye on Africa, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where six people have died following an explosion in a military camp in Goma. Meanwhile, the DRC's president travels to Nairobi to sign his country’s treaty of accession to the East Africa Community. And we…

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Kenyan marathon champ Chepngetich eyes faster time at worlds

Nairobi (AFP) - Defending world champion Ruth Chepngetich predicted ever-advancing times in the women's marathon after being named Friday in the Kenyan team for this summer's World Athletics Championships.

AFP

Abortion in Spain: Despite being legal, many doctors refuse to perform them

Abortion is legal in Spain yet a number of doctors in the public system still refuse to carry out the procedure, calling themselves "conscientious objectors." Their stance forcing women to use private clinics. We also head to Kibera in the Kenyan city of Nairobi which is Africa's largest urban slum;…

France 24

Kenya unveils $28 billion budget to spur recovery

Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya's finance minister on Thursday unveiled a $28 billion budget aimed at helping the economy recover after the Covid-19 pandemic threw hundreds of thousands of people out of work.

AFP

DR Congo joins regional East Africa bloc

Nairobi (AFP) - The Democratic Republic of Congo was admitted Tuesday into the regional East African Community (EAC), a bloc with a single market allowing free trade and movement of citizens, the group said.

AFP

Kenya says over 800,000 Covid jabs have expired, blames hesitancy

Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya announced on Wednesday that nearly 840,000 Covid-19 vaccines received through donations had expired, blaming hesitancy and a short shelf life for jabs going unused.

AFP

A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people

The Guardian - UK

Four people die of yellow fever in Kenya

Nairobi (AFP) - An outbreak of yellow fever, an acute and contagious viral disease, has claimed four lives in Kenya since it was first detected in January, the health ministry said Monday.

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Moderna announces first African vaccine facility in Kenya

Nairobi (AFP) - US vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it would build its first mRNA jab-manufacturing facility in Africa after signing an agreement with Kenya's government to produce up to 500 million doses a year.

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China's Wu wins fourth DP World Tour title

Nairobi (AFP) - China's Wu Ashun captured his fourth DP World Tour title on Sunday with victory at the Kenya Open, overturning a four-shot overnight deficit to finish clear at the top.

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Ashun Wu rides dynamic short game to comfortable win at DP World Tour’s Magical Kenya Open

After the round, Wu was greeted by his wife and young daughter, both of whom made the trip to Nairobi.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN, Cairo Discuss Preparations for COP27 Climate Conference

Egypt’s Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad met on Thursday with Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group Amina Mohamed to discuss Egypt’s preparations to host the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh in November. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the…

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Global and grassroots come together as landmark plastics agreement signed in Nairobi

Tired of the poor improper plastic waste disposal in Nairobi, Kenya, Nzambi Matee, 29, took it upon herself to solve one of the world’s biggest environmental concerns by changing the world - one brick at a time.

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UN takes 'historic' step toward global treaty on plastic trash

Nairobi (AFP) - The United Nations on Wednesday agreed to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has been hailed as a watershed moment for the planet.

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UN agrees to create 'historic' global treaty on plastic trash

Nairobi (AFP) - The United Nations on Wednesday agreed to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has been hailed a watershed moment for the planet.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN to Take First Step towards 'Historic' Plastic Treaty

The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address a plastic trash "epidemic" that supporters say is a historic moment for the planet. The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), convening in Nairobi, is poised to adopt a resolution creating an intergovernmental committee to negotiate…

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UN to take first step towards 'historic' plastic treaty

Nairobi (AFP) - The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address the planet's "epidemic" of plastic trash, a moment that supporters describe as historic.

The Conversation

Kenya and Zimbabwe have been suspended from world football: what happens next

Kenya and Zimbabwe have both been suspended by the world’s football governing body, FIFA, owing to government interference in the operations of the national football federations. Nairobi and Harare dissolved their federations late last year and replaced them with government-appointed officials. The suspension, overshadowed for now by Russia’s dramatic banishment…

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UN environment meeting in Kenya: a chance to finally act?

The United Nations Environment Assembly is gathering for three days in Kenya’s capital to find holistic solutions to today’s environmental threats. The fight against plastic pollution is one of the key topics to be tabled with the hope governments will agree on a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.

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