Tag: Nairobi
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Floods kill 12 in Nairobi
Kenyan police on Tuesday in Nairobi confirmed that flooding sparked by heavy rains on Monday night killed 12 people in Nairobi.
Benson Kibue, Provincial Police Commander, said the wall of a mosque collapsed on shanty dwellings in Fuata Nyayo slum, and killed 10 people.
He said two other victims were swept away by floods.
Kibue said the flooding, which has left major roads submerged, was believed to have been made worse by blockages in the drainage system in several parts of the city.
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Africa’s spectrum challenges for Nairobi confab
Information communication technology (ICT) stakeholders across Africa and experts around the globe are to converge in Nairobi, Kenya to dialogue and proffer solutions to spectrum challenges in enhancing broadband connectivity in Africa.
The 10th edition of the annual Spectrum Africa Workshop will take place at Hilton Nairobi from 3-5 June this year. The workshop is organised by Kemilinks International, hosted and co-sponsored by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).
The workshop will be held in collaboration with key political and ICT regional institutions in Africa, including the African Union NEPAD Agency, the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), the Communications Regulatory Association of Southern Africa (CRASA), the East African Communications Organisation (EACO), and the West African Telecommunications Regulatory Assembly (WATRA).
In discussing new developments in the management of spectrum in Africa, the workshop, which will be conducted in both English and French will focus on many areas such as Spectrum Planning and Strategies for enhancing broadband connectivity in Africa; Spectrum planning for the next generation of mobile networks: towards 5G, Cognitive Radios, the Internet of Things (IoT) and beyond.
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Kenya bars travellers from worst-hit Ebola countries
Nairobi – Kenya is shutting its borders against travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, the government said yesterday.
Kenya Airways also announced that it would suspend its flights to Freetown and Monrovia when the government travel bar on passengers comes into effect on Wednesday.
Several European carriers have already suspended services to the Sierra Leonean and Liberian capitals, where states of emergency have been declared to try to slow the spread of the disease.
Kenyan Health Minister James Macharia said the measure is also aimed at travellers who have passed through the affected countries.
“In the interest of public health the government has decided to temporarily suspend entry into Kenya of passengers travelling from or through the three West African countries affected by Ebola, namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia,” he said.
The measure does not affect health workers fighting the epidemic, Macharia said, nor Kenyans returning home from the three countries.
However, he warned that both groups would be subject to “strict checks… and it may be necessary to put people in quarantine”.
Kenyan health officials have already spotted four suspected cases of Ebola, which experts say is raging out of control in west Africa, but all proved negative after tests.
Kenyan Airways will continue to fly to Nigeria, despite a much smaller Ebola outbreak in its largest city, Lagos, the company said in a statement.
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After Westgate, Al Shabab targets Kenya high schools
Leaked intelligence reports in Nairobi say the Somali terror group is finding an audience even in prominent prep schools and academies.
But new leaks in Nairobi suggest the radical jihadi message of the Somali-based group is being promulgated much closer to home: In local madrassas and even in some prominent mainstream Kenyan high schools.
The revelations of jihadi recruitment in Kenyan schools adds to a picture – weeks after nearly 70 people were shot and killed at Westgate – of a more extensive underground network of Al Shabab in Kenya than had been understood by the public. And it partly centers on well-known mosques.
But their alleged presence in schools is a new wrinkle: In an unusual National Intelligence Service report, apparently written in late September and leaked to the Kenyan media last week, Al Shabab and other radical actors are described as lecturing and recruiting in schools, mosques, and in “slums” around the Eastleigh area of Nairobi that is often called “Little Mogadishu,” where Somali refugees gather and live.
• Source: Google
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Jonathan to attend Kenyatta’s inauguration
President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja Monday night for Nairobi, Kenya where he is scheduled to join other African leaders at Tuesday’s inauguration of Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya’s fourth President.
He will be accompanied to Mr. Kenyatta’s swearing-in ceremony at the Kasarani Sports Complex in Nairobi by the Acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar, Senator Emmanuel Paulker and the Minister of State (Foreign Affairs), Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed.
The President will return to Abuja Tuesday and will preside over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council as usual on Wednesday.
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Nairobi minibus ‘hit by grenade’
A blast has killed at least six people on a crowded minibus passing through a suburb of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, which has a large Somali population.
A grenade was thrown into the vehicle in the Eastleigh area, police said, ripping the roof and sides off the bus.
BBC says several recent attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa had been blamed on Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group.
Earlier this year, Kenya sent troops into Somalia to pursue militants.
Kenyan forces ousted the Islamist rebels from their last Somalia stronghold, Kismayo, last month.
After Sunday’s blast, police fired into the air to disperse crowds of youths who targeted Somali residents in retaliation.
Kenya began its intervention in Somalia nearly a year ago after a spate of cross-border attacks blamed on al-Shabab.
