Kenya
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By: Kalume Kazungu
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
A section of residents have called on the county government to intervene and help them recover their land which they claim has been grabbed by tycoons.
Mr Musa Aden who spoke on behalf of the residents of Nagele…
By: Ronald Matende Omwoma
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: Standard Media
OPINION
NAIROBI: The National Land Commission recently directed all county land management boards to forward their work to its headquarters for approval. I think this is a wrong move. Reforms in land administration were…
By: Johnston Keti
Date: March 28th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
Residents of Kirimon in Samburu Central Sub-County have demonstrated over what they say is illegal grabbing of 10,000 acres of public land meant to benefit their community.
The angry residents accused the Samburu County…
Date: 19 avril 2016
Source: Agence ecofin
Par Aaron Akinocho
Au Kenya, l’heure est à la reforestation. Le pays qui a perdu 30 000 km2 de forêts (soit 8% de son couvert forestier) entre 2001 et 2014, vient de lancer l’initiative «20 millions d’arbres pour les forêts du Kenya». Concrètement, il…
Date: May 22th 2016
Source: International Water Management Institute
Smart planning can ensure a sustainable future for Kenya’s longest river
Rising in the Aberdare Mountains, skirting the snow-capped peak of Mount Kenya, and descending 1,000 kilometers to the Indian Ocean coast, the Tana…
Author: Timothy Njagi
Source: Standard Digital
Date: May 25th, 2016
In Kenya, 67 per cent of land is under communal tenure and supports about 10 million people and 70 per cent of the livestock population. Largely, these lands are characterised by high temperatures and low rainfall and are…
By: Katy Migiro
Date: 23 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Millions of widows across Africa are left destitute after being evicted from their homes and are too poor or uneducated to seek legal redress, campaigners say.
65-year-old Juma Kalume Musunye is one of 19 elderly people…
By: Anthony Langat
Date: 24 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Kenya's Borana pastoralists are losing less livestock to drought, thanks to the revival of a centuries old traditional grazing management system, said the Adaptation Consortium initiative, which aims to support…
By: Shadrack Kavilu
Date: 30 june 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley are dotted with bustling shanty towns but it has not always been like this.
The local economy has grown dramatically since the late 1980s when the first…
By: Sophie Mbugua
Source: BRACED
SESIMWANI, Kenya – Birds sing, feet shuffle, as women and men of all ages emerge from spreading canopies of green.
Dressed in gumboots and carrying umbrellas, they hurry towards the Olodomut Nursery School in Sesimwani village, in Kenya’s Mau Forest. The community…
Source: MediaMax
Author: Charles Muasya
For four hours, Kitui women, both old and young, backed by a few men, braved the scorching sun as they scaled to the top of Ulonzo hills, the highest mountain in the county to compel authorities to give them equal land ownership rights with men.
From a group…
By: Shadrack Kavilu
Date: July 31st 2016
Source: Reuters
KITENGELA, Kenya, July 31(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's just before sunset, the time of day when Maasai herdsman Josphat Ole Tonkei would have been counting his herd of cows after hours in the grazing fields, a few years ago.
Today…