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For Kenyans, Jamhuri Day 2016 is shadowed by sadness over Naivasha tragedy

12/12/2016

Kenyans everywhere are celebrating this 53rd Jamhuri Day with a heavy heart and a shadow of sadness hanging over us. On Saturday Dec 10, 2016, a tanker carrying inflammable [...]

Striking Kenyan doctors threaten to shut private hospitals

12/08/2016

Kenyan doctors and nurses warned Thursday they will extend a strike crippling public hospitals to private clinics as well next week, unless the government offers them more in [...]

Viola Desmond chosen as first Canadian woman to grace banknote’s face

12/08/2016

Viola Desmond, often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre, will be the first [...]

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

12/06/2016

December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. Established in 1991 by the Parliament of Canada, this day marks the anniversary [...]

KCPE 2016 results released

12/01/2016

The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education results are out. For the first time in Kenya’s KCPE history, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said all candidates [...]

HIV vaccine clinical trial begins in South Africa

11/30/2016

A new vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is being tested in South Africa in what scientists say is the first large study of an HIV vaccine’s effectiveness [...]

The Hand

11/24/2016

Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment – to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful. Most of the class [...]

Priscah Kemunto Mokua death & funeral

11/23/2016

We are saddened to announce the death of omongina Priscah Kemunto Mokua of Sengera village, Manga, Nyamira County, which occurred on November 10, 2016 in Toronto Canada. [...]

Health ministers meet in Ottawa to develop opioid crisis plan

11/18/2016

Health experts from across the country will meet in Ottawa today to work on a plan to curb the crisis of opioid-related overdose deaths. The summit is hosted by federal [...]

Heartprints

11/15/2016

Whatever our hands touch… We leave fingerprints! On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There’s no escape. As we touch we leave our identity. Oh God, [...]

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