Serfine Achieng

Serfine Achieng

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  • Patients remain stranded as doctors' strike enters week three

    Patients remain stranded as doctors' strike enters week three

    Patients in public hospitals remained stranded, with the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) insisting that no amount of intimidation and sacking threats will  have them backing down.

  • Agriculture CS Linturi says probe launched into fake fertiliser scandal

    Agriculture CS Linturi says probe launched into fake fertiliser scandal

    Speaking during a stakeholders' engagement on Edible Oil Crop Promotion in Naivasha town, Nakuru County on Saturday, Linturi stated that investigations into the alleged fake fertiliser scandal have commenced, warning of tough action aga...

  • 13-member committee formed to consider doctors' demands as strike enters day 9

    13-member committee formed to consider doctors' demands as strike enters day 9

    The talks were meant to resolve the impasse that has slowly brought the health sector to its knees due to a strike which started on March 14, 2024.The 7-hour meeting however ended without a deal for doctors to go back to work with the parties involved reading from different scripts....

  • KNUT up in arms as Govt fails to release school capitation

    KNUT up in arms as Govt fails to release school capitation

    KNUT is demanding the immediate disbursement of capitation funds to avert a crisis in learning institutions.This comes at a time when several school heads have decried the funding crisis which they say hampers smooth operations in the learning institutions.

  • Medical services partially disrupted in hospitals as doctors strike kicks off

    Medical services partially disrupted in hospitals as doctors strike kicks off

    At Kakamega County General Teaching and Referral Hospital, several patients in need of specialised care were turned away.It was a long hopeless wait for patients in Nakuru County, where about 160 doctors joined their colleagues in the nationwide strike.

  • Gov't deploys more GSU officers to Baringo after over 2,000 people displaced by bandit attacks

    Gov't deploys more GSU officers to Baringo after over 2,000 people displaced by bandit attacks

    Several schools have remained closed affecting hundreds of learners whose future has been interrupted by the blood-thirsty bandits.Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has sustained his tough talk leading efforts by the government to find a working strategy to weed out the ban...

  • Veteran publisher Dr. Henry Chakava dies aged 77

    Veteran publisher Dr. Henry Chakava dies aged 77

    Dr Chakavas legacy is decorated by the many iconic literary figures he published including Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Grace Ogot, Francis Imbuga, John Kiriamiti, Meja Mwangi, and Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye all from Kenya.

  • KHRC indicts 20 counties over rise in teenage pregnancies

    KHRC indicts 20 counties over rise in teenage pregnancies

    Nairobi, Kakamega, Bungoma, Nakuru and Kiambu are the top five counties listed for failing to put measures that prevent prevalence of the early pregnancies.

  • Education report reveals Mandera has largest number of school dropouts

    Education report reveals Mandera has largest number of school dropouts

    According to the latest Learning Assessment report by the Usawa Agenda, lack of school fees was cited as the most common reason for school dropouts followed by other factors like non-desire to go school, migration, insecurity, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence. ...

  • Ex-Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya faces Ksh.56M corruption charges

    Ex-Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya faces Ksh.56M corruption charges

    On October 12, 2023, EACC recommended to the ODPP that Oparanya, his spouse, some county officials and some of the directors of the companies be charged with conspiracy to commit an offence of corruption, conflict of interest, abuse of office and money laundering.