Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI, Mar 2, 2011 (IPS) – Mount Elgon in Western Kenya is one of the most marginalised regions in the country. It is so marginalised that it is the only area where not even an inch of tarmac road has been constructed. The area is [...]
KENYA – More Men Preventing HIV Transmission to their Unborn Children
October 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isaiah Esipisu VIHIGA, Western Kenya, Oct 18, 2010 (IPS) – Pastor Joseph Muhembeli and his wife, Beatrice, queue at the Vihiga health centre with their six-month-old daughter for their prevention of mother-to-child treatment (PMTCT). But before long, as per the clinic’s policy, the couple are whisked to [...]
KENYA: Room to Improve on Governance
October 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Oct 9, 2010 (IPS) – Kimani Wanyama*, a homosexual man living in Nairobi, knows what human rights violations are all about. His attempts over three years to receive treatment for reoccurring rectal gonorrhoea had resulted in verbal abuse and intense stigmatisation from the very [...]
KENYA: Resounding Yes to New Constitution
August 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI, Aug 5, 2010 (IPS) – Jubilant supporters say it is a new dawn for Kenya. Sixty-seven percent of votes cast endorsed a new constitution more than two decades after reform was first raised. Speaking to IPS soon after the results were announced, Senior Counsel [...]
KENYA: Misoprostol Can’t Shake Bad Reputation
August 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI, Aug 4 (IPS) – Precious Nabwire nearly died giving birth to her fourth child. If Kenyan gynaecologists have their way, a drug to control bleeding after childbirth will be licensed, offering greater protection to tens of thousands of women facing similar danger. Her daughter – [...]
KENYA: HIV Strain Among Gays Same as Strain in Heterosexuals
July 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Jul 20 (IPS) – Because of societal pressure and the criminality associated with men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kenya, Omondi Maina* married a woman. This is despite being involved in homosexual relationship for the last 10 years. And Maina is not the [...]
HEALTH-KENYA: Agency Unaware of Anti-Counterfeit Law Suspension
July 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Suleiman Mbatiah NAIROBI, Jul 1 (IPS) – The agency tasked with implementing the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 in Kenya is unaware of the Constitutional Court’s suspension of the law’s application to medicines. Moreover, a large multinational pharmaceutical company has offered to assist the agency in implementing the law [...]
EAST AFRICA: New Arsenal Against Armyworms
June 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Isaiah Esipisu Nairobi, Jun 3 (IPS) – Farmers across Eastern and Southern Africa will soon have a new organic insecticide effective enough to kill one of their most deadly foes û the armyworm. Armyworms or Spodoptera frugiperda, as they are known scientifically, are caterpillars that eventually develop into [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Market-Based Conservation Brewing in Nairobi
June 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy* NAIROBI, Jun 1, 2010 (Tierramérica) – The private sector could mobilise billions of dollars to halt the loss of biodiversity, just as it does through the Clean Development Mechanism for mitigating climate change. But the proposal presented at a recent forum in the Kenyan capital [...]
KENYA: Farming Butterflies Puts Food on the Table
April 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ntandoyenkosi Ncube KAKAMEGA FOREST, Kenya, Apr 24 (IPS) – For 10 years, Roselyne Shikami, sold boiled eggs at the bus station just outside the densely wooded Kakamega Forest in western Kenya, near the border with Uganda. Now she is selling butterflies. ”It was very difficult for me to sell [...]
