Science & Tech

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Nearly 750,000 miles of cable already connect the continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. Companies have typically pooled their resources to…

By Fauxile Kibet NAIROBI: A report has identified Kenya as a conduit for smuggling donkeys from neighboring East African countries. Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism sponsored by The Donkey Sanctuary, tracked…

By Fauxile Kibet NAIROBI: A committee formed to track the progress of the anti-polio campaign in the Horn of Africa has identified conflict and humanitarian crisis as one of the…

Ingenuity and homegrown. Those two words speak of Fahma Abdi Majiid the university student and mother of two in Mogadishu who is behind one of the first locally made hair…

A consortium of Chinese companies has been licensed to fish in Somali waters in what the Fisheries Ministry said was awarded in a transparent process for the first time in…

By Fauxile Kibet Poor countries will receive more funds to help them adjust to global warming, the World Bank has said. The global body said that it will double its…

On the 30th World AIDS Day, the following timeline shows how the epidemic spread around the world, progress made to combat it and challenges that remain. 1920s – HIV, the…

By Fauxile Kibet Somalia has agreed to an intelligence sharing deal with six countries bordering the Indian Ocean but is yet to append its signature to the deal. The agreement…

Child marriage is costing African countries at least $60 billion in lost lifetime earnings, more than what the world gives the continent in aid each year, the World Bank said…