ActionAid Kenya has launched a nationwide month-long campaign aimed at creating more awareness against FGM and raise funds to build Safe Houses for rescued girls in West Pokot and other areas across the country where girls consider schools safe havens. Speaking during the launch event in Nairobi, ActionAid’s head of fundraising, Ms Susan Otieno said that although awareness against the vice has increased in recent years, some communities are crafting new ways of ensuring their daughters are circumcised without the law catching up with them. “We were very disturbed when we found out that in some counties like Taita Taveta,…
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Kenya introduced a master plan for the development of Islamic Finance in the country thanks to the 6th Global Islamic Microfinance Forum that was recently inaugurated in Nairobi by Dr. Geoffrey N. Mwau, Director General, Budget, Fiscal & Economic Affairs, National Treasury, Kenya, Raza Bashir Tarar, High Commissioner of Pakistan in Kenya, Dr. Amjad Saqib, Founder Akhuwat and Zubair Mughal, CEO, AlHuda CIBE. The salient topics that were discussed at the conference included bringing together the Islamic Microfinance Institutions on a single platform, role of Islamic Microfinance in poverty alleviation, Shariah and related issues of Islamic Microfinance Institutions and their…
A car infotainment company, Pioneer Gulf FZE, has unveiled its 2017 in-car equalizer aimed at enabling more advanced features and enhanced audio reproduction. The Pioneer EQ-6500V2 model is seemingly a legend product, being re-launched with new features and a fresh look and feel. “Through continual research and development, we now allow our customers to conveniently customise their preferred music, while giving them a retro feel with full control over the equalizer settings,” said Muralidhar Masala, General Manager, Product Planning & Marketing Department, Pioneer Gulf FZE. With the equalizer, users can enjoy not only in-depth sound personalisation but also high degree of…
By David Wanjala Many people reckon that they had put in place what they wanted to achieve in 2016 but so far, there is little to show. We make resolutions year in year out: of clearing all debts, getting married, paying outstanding land rates, or even building a house, but end up not even achieving half of them, and in the unlikely turn that we manage to pull through, we wonder how we made it. This gives us more reasons to state our resolutions; primary objective of resolutions is to ensure that you realise your dreams. If you can make…
BY DAVID ONJILI The greatest misfortune of being a professional athlete is how your failures are inevitably caught on camera. The ubiquity of the media is it can capture the essence of triumph or immortalise the depths of despair. They valorise or vilify in equal measure, yet when the story of Kenyan football will finally be documented, Dennis ‘The Menace’ Oliech will hold a special place in the hearts of Kenyan soccer lovers for years. The chants of Oliech, Odinga Obama still echoe in the ears and hearts of soccer lovers, a striker with a love hate relationship, a genius…
BY KENYATTA OTIENO Recently I visited my local printer; let us call him Mr Wacopier, to print some reports. A client walked in and jokingly teased him how he must be pushed to deliver in anticipation for an excuse only to find his work ready. He went into his wallet and paid happily. Wacopier then began to look for balance to give him. I jumped in and told him he can’t give the man his balance after that tongue lash. He saw wisdom in my opinion and told his friend off. The guy turned smiling and said, “ndathii ngiumaga” –…
BY TERRY MWANGI Well, it will be, as soon as jingle bells start to play. If you are keen on getting into the holiday mode, you will definitely need a good outfit to go along! Christmas means a calendar full of parties, family, good food and of course good clothes. Deciding what to wear to each event is definitely no small feat; here are few tips to get you by Focus on Fit No matter how good you really want to look during this season, good fit should be the number one priority. This is the most important factor to…
BY AMBROSE KIRAGU There is a wonderful record of a revival in the days of godly king Hezekiah in the book of 2nd Chronicles chapter 29. The Lord stirred this king, whom the scriptures record as the greatest of all kings, even above mighty David. Every word of that wonderful chapter is beautiful to behold, in a book where everything else is sacred. Indeed, a faithful Christian cannot endorse parts of scripture above others, though it is true that in times of spiritual mess like ours, every jot and title that records a revival is of utmost pertinence. Hezekiah ruled…
By Victor Adar Diaskédasi, the Greek word for fun, is the best description for the Greek Food Festival that happened last month and sponsored by the upscale DusitD2 hotel (Nairobi) and Qatar Airways. The week-long festival was a great experience aimed at promoting Greek culture to Kenyans who came in numbers to have a taste of fine dishes. In the kitchen were two chefs from Greece who are masters on Greek cuisines; they always leave their customers wanting more and more, something which has been attributed to their tradition of practicing culinary arts for a period of over 4000 years.…
Facebook had a strong presence at AfricaCom 2016 in Cape Town, in line with its commitment to fostering a strong relationship with its connectivity partners and application developers across Africa. In addition to hosting its first-ever African FbStart workshop for developers, Facebook also shared how it is empowering local retailers and entrepreneurs with Internet.org’s Express Wifi programme. Chris Daniels, VP of Internet.org at Facebook, said: “Our mission is to give people the power to share and to make the world more open and connected. Only half of the planet is on the Internet – our aim with Internet.org is to…