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News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called " hard news " to differentiate it from soft media .
Chama (investment) A chama is an informal cooperative society that is normally used to pool and invest savings by people in East Africa, and particularly Kenya. [1] The chama phenomenon is also referred to as "micro-savings groups". "Chama" (also spelled kyama or Kiama in certain ethnic groups such as the Gikuyu) is the Kiswahili word for ...
Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona (born 1 November 1966) is a Kenyan politician. She originally trained as a lawyer, and has been a member of parliament since 2008. She was first nominated and later elected as a Member of Mbita Constituency, (now Suba North Constituency).
Simon Gicharu is an educationalist and founder of Mount Kenya University, which is East and Central Africa’s largest private university. He is also the founder of Mount Kigali University in Rwanda. He was born in 1964 in Gathiruini village, Kiambu County, Kenya. He is the first in a family of seven.
The World Today, styled also as The World Today with Maryam Moshiri is a news programme that premiered on both UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 21 February 2024. The programme is mainly hosted by Maryam Moshiri. The show, dedicated to international news is said to "bring the best of the BBC's global journalism to audiences ...
Peter Mokaya Tabichi OFM (born 1982) is a Kenyan science teacher and Franciscan friar who teaches at Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani, Nakuru County. He is the winner of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize. Tabichi was listed as one of the top 100 most influential Africans by New African in 2019. [1]
Sumba Island is an island in Lake Victoria that is divided between Kenya and Uganda. It is located in the administrative area of Busia County in the western part of the country, 400 km west of the capital Nairobi. The average annual temperature in the neighborhood is 20 °C.
Konza Technopolis, previously called Konza Technology City, is a large technology hub planned by the government of Kenya to be built 64 km (39 mi) south of Nairobi on the way to the port city of Mombasa. It is marketed as a key driver of Kenya's national development plan, known as Kenya Vision 2030. As of January 2019, the project appeared to ...