London, April 2, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Kenya is set for an additional $50 million credit from the World Bank to support the fight against Covid-19 as confirmed cases rose to 81, local publication Daily Nation reported. READ ALSO: KENYA APPROVES CHLOROQUINE FOR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS The paper reported that Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe made the announcement saying that the ...

London, April 1, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The Kenyan government has approved the use of one of the oldest anti-malarial drugs chloroquine to treat coronavirus, according to Citizen TV. But it will only be given to critical patients, Health Director General Patrick Amoth is quoted as saying. READ ALSO: TOP SOUTH AFRICAN SCIENTIST DIES OF CORONAVIRUS Algeria and ...

London, March 25, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nearly six million medical masks recently purchased by Germany have disappeared at an airport in Kenya, Der Spiegel a weekly German news magazine reported on its website on Tuesday. German customs are now trying to resolve the misery surrounding the disappearance of the face masks, ordered to protect health workers from ...

London, March 16, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Police in Kenya have arrested a 23-year-old man for publishing false information on the spread of coronavirus. Elijah Muthui Kitonyo was arrested in Mwingi town in eastern Kenya for claiming that the government gave misleading details on the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the country. READ ALSO: COVID-19 PATIENTS IN ...

London, March 13, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Kenya’s government has now suspended all public gatherings after the country recorded its first case of coronavirus. Church services are however not affected by the suspension but churches are expected to provide hand-sanitisers. RELATED: ALGERIA SHUTS SCHOOLS, 119 CASES, 2 DEATHS AS COVID-19 CASES CREEP IN AFRICA The minister of health, Mutahi Kagwe ...

London, March 11, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Police officers in Kisii County, a popular area in Kenya are hunting for a middle-aged a man who killed his elder brother after allegedly busting him having sexual intercourse with their mother. According to the police report filed at the Kisii Police Station, the fugitive had gone to his mother’s house ...

London, March 6, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Rockefeller Foundation has released a grant of $6 million for value addition initiatives in mango farming in Kenya through its YieldWise Food Loss initiative. Betty Kibaara, the Director in charge of Food Initiative at the Rockefeller foundation says the funding is aimed at helping reduce post-harvest losses of mangoes that currently ...

London, March 5, 2020 (AltAfrica)-High rate of teenage pregnancy in Kenya is giving the East African government sleepless after latest figure showed that last year (2019) alone 379,573 girls under eighteen became pregnant Of the figure, more than 20,828 of the minors are below 14 years.  Kenyan capital, Nairobi has the highest number of children ...

London, Feb. 20, 2020 (AltAfrica)-In Kenya, additional 250,000 households in 14 counties will have access to energy as part of the solar electrification program.  President Uhuru Kenyatta who made the announcement also said that 800 public institutions will also benefit from this program. READ ALSO: UGANDAN POLICE BOSS ORDERS ARREST, TRIAL OF TOP OFFICER HEAVILY ...

London, Feb. 19, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Okada, motorcycle taxi operators in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, have threatened to paralyse businesses after one of them was allegedly killed by a policeman after he had saved a young boy from drowning. The Okada hero, Daniel Mburu was shot at a city hospital where he had taken the boy. He apparently ...