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Christian Fraser. BBC News, The Context, BBC Election Coverage. Ben Brown. BBC News, BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, BBC Weekend News, The World Today, Verified Live, BBC News Now [4] Annita McVeigh. BBC News, BBC News at One, BBC Weekend News.
e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [1] Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. [2] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [3] including 62 civilians, five ...
Focus on Africa (TV programme) Awards. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Africans. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Kenyans. Sophie Ikenye is a BBC news presenter from Kenya. [1] She is a main presenter for Focus on Africa (TV programme) on BBC World News. She worked in the broadcasting industry in Kenya for 12 years before joining the BBC.
Kenyan journalist Rukia Bulle has won the 2024 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. The 26-year-old, who is the ninth recipient of the award and works for Kenya’s Nation Media Group, specialises in human ...
Focus on Africa is a BBC news programme broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel, and on local partner channels of the BBC in African countries. [1] The programme was presented by Komla Dumor each weekday from its inception until his sudden death, aged 41, in January 2014. [2] The programme includes news, sport and business ...
BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces a bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa, Swahili and French. The series focuses on topics that are of interest and concern to young and ...
2024 Mai Mahiu flash flood. On 29 April 2024, a blockage in a culvert beneath a railway embankment led to a catastrophic failure and inundation in Kenya, killing at least 50 people. [2] The event was initially described as a 'dam failure'. [3] The flood occurred following heavy rains in the previous month that killed over 110 people.
Turner served as High Commissioner to Kenya from 2012 to 2015. [6] [7] During his time in Kenya he led the UK response to the Westgate Mall terrorist attack [8] and the UK's reconciliation with the MauMau. [9] [10] On his return to the UK in 2016 Turner led the London Syria Conference for No 10, raising $12 billion for Syrian refugees. [11]