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  An Irish man has died after he became ill while climbing Mount Kenya. The climber, 40, developed breathing issues at a stopover hut on the mountain, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service. A statement said the incident occurred at 6am on Thursday. A search and rescue team evacuated the man to Mackinder’s Camp and he was then airlifted to Nanyuki Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The man had been at Mount Kenya National Park since Monday. The service offered condolences to the man's family.

  The United Arab Emirates has provided urgent humanitarian aid to people affected by the recent earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi recently. The initiative was launched on the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, with the monitoring of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in the Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), to support those affected by the earthquake and offer them urgent relief aid. The ERC implemented the directives of the leadership by preparing an ambitious relief programme, which aims to provide large quantities of shelter materials, food, medical supplies and other basic needs to thousands of people affected by the disaster. The ERC coordinated with the UAE Embassy in Jakarta and relevant Indonesian authorities to ensure the fast delivery of the aid, to meet the needs of thos

  The Consolidated Fund Services (CFS), from which the State draws cash to repay public debt as well as meet other constitutional obligations such as retired civil servants' pensions, has received a whopping Sh724.5 billion; the single-biggest allocation of the different expenditure items listed in Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani's budget. The annual budget is ordinarily a strong indicator of any government's top priorities, given the fact that resources are one of the key determinants of quality of service or development projects. "Under-performance of the economy worsens the debt indicators, thus unsustainability. However, with fiscal consolidation, the government aims to contain the pace of borrowing and hence reduce the debt ratios," CS Yatani says in the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) document released on Monday. Marginal growth The education sector will cumulatively receive Sh510.5 billion, a marginal growth from the Sh505.1 billion all

  Israel opened an embassy in the United Arab Emirates Sunday, its foreign ministry said, in a historic move four months after the Jewish state and the Gulf country normalised ties. "Today the Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi has officially been opened, with the arrival of the mission head Eitan Naeh," the ministry said in a statement. "The Israeli embassy in the United Arab Emirates will advance relations between the countries on all levels." The UAE, along with  Bahrain , signed a US-brokered deal in September to  normalise relations with the Jewish state . The agreements, known as the "Abraham Accords", shattered a longstanding Arab consensus that there should be no normalisation with Israel until it reaches a comprehensive peace deal with the Palestinians. The Palestinians  condemned the agreements  as a "stab in the back". The Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi will be operating from "temporary offices" until locating a

  UAE opened two hospitals in the Horn of Africa nation through the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation. The hospitals are Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital in the city of Berbera and another which will be specialised for women, childbirth and neonatal care in Burao town. The hospitals have been built thanks to the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the support of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and the direct follow up of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Foundation. It is part of the UAE’s humanitarian initiatives to alleviate the suffering of underprivileged people, especially given the challenges facing the health sector in Somaliland, and in light of the worsening health conditions the world is witnessing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Under an agreement struck between the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Monday, January 18, DEWA will supply EGA’s smelter with solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, located in Dubai. The solar park has a current installed capacity of 1,013 megawatts using photovoltaic solar panels. DEWA is implementing an additional 1,850 megawatts of projects using solar panels and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). Eventually, its capacity will reach 5,000MW by 2030. DEWA will supply EGA’s smelter with 560,000 megawatt hours of solar power annually from the facility, sufficient to produce 40,000 tonnes of aluminium in the first year itself. EGA will in turn supply this solar-powered aluminium to global customers under the new product name CelestiAL. The fourth phase of the solar park will, upon its completion, have the largest energy storage capacity in the world of 15 hours. It will be operational in stages

  Kenyan scientists have raised an alarm on a coronavirus variant they say differs from the one spreading in South Africa and Britain. About 10 investigators from the Kenya Medical Research Institute, or KEMRI, discovered the mutation of the virus responsible for the COVID-19 disease. Charles Agoti, a principal investigator and researcher, says that the variant unique to Kenya was detected in a batch of samples taken from Taita Taveta county, located in the southeastern part of the country. “Our interpretation is that because in this one place in Kenya we were seeing, it represents the majority of the sequenced samples; it does imply that actually, it could if it has intrinsic properties, be more transmissible," Agoti said. "It could result in an increase in the number of cases locally.” Between June and October of last year, KEMRI sequenced around 205 genomes in the coastal region and further identified around 16 circulating mutations all of which have so far

  UAE airline, Emirates, has today announced its much-awaited global ticket discounts to encourage Kenyan travelers to explore new destinations in the new year. With these attractive offers, travelers in Kenya can look forward to various deals to key destinations in Emirates’ global network with the special Business Class and Economy Class fares. The return ticket prices in Economy Class fares start at Ksh.36,000 (USD 360) to Dubai, Ksh.61,000 (USD 610) to London, Ksh.88,000 (USD 880) to New York, Ksh.106,000 (USD 1060) to Maldives and Ksh.84,500 (USD 845 to Kuala Lumpur. In addition, Business Class passengers can as well enjoy the discounted offering of Ksh.112,000 (USD 1120) to Dubai, Ksh.211,000 (USD 2110) to London, Ksh.3030 (USD 3030) to New York, Ksh.339,000 (USD 3390) to Maldives and Ksh.360,000 (USD 3600) to Kuala Lumpur. The fares are available until January 25th, 2021 and are valid for travel from January 11th, 2020 to 15th June 2021. Emirates customers can travel with peace

  Kenyan Treasury officials are no doubt worried about what's going to happen next Thursday. The date marks the end of a five year repayment holiday given by the China Exim Bank for the $1.4 billion loan used to build the Nairobi to Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway. Unless officials from both countries come up with a last-minute deal to  restructure either the loan or China’s broader debt portfolio in Kenya , the Treasury’s going to have to cut a pretty large check using what little money it has available. The COVID-19-induced economic downturn has hit Kenya disproportionately hard. Unlike the DRC, Angola, and Nigeria, Kenya lacks the kind of natural resources that even when prices are low are still able to generate badly-needed cash flow. Instead, the Kenyan government has to look for other ways to generate income but with  a slowing economy and declining tax receipts  that isn’t easy. In the meantime,  the country is forced to borrow more , pushing up its already sizable nation

  A move by Kenyan authorities to improve the country’s tourism numbers has resulted in a backlash. Kenya’s tourism sector has taken a nosedive following the spread of the COVID-19 and lockdown measures to contain the spread of the virus. According to a report by  Kenya’s Tourism Research Institute , tourists numbers have fallen by 72% between January and October last year. “The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists’ revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” the report noted. To reverse the downward spiral, Kenya’s Tourism and Wildlife Ministry appointed British supermodel Naomi Campbell to become an ambassador for the industry. The 50-year-old model has 10 million followers on  Instagram  and Kenya is seeking to leverage this mass to revive its tourism sector. “Supermodel Naomi Campbell has agreed to be Magical Kenya International Tourism Ambassador. She will help promote the marketing of Kenya as an ideal tourism and travel de

 With some countries experiencing the second wave of the spread of Corona Virus, it has become a wake up call for countries to purchase and vaccinate their people. UAE is one of the front runners amidst countries that have started vaccination, they have vaccinated over 1million people in first 10days of 2021. Since it's outbreak in 2019, corona Virus has hot 91, 384, 812 case, 1,955,033 deaths and 65,403,676 have recovered all over the world.

  The most important thing that you get out of school is confidence. Grades are secondary. They reflect what you did, not what you will do or can do. Grades are backward looking; the reality is forward looking. That is why we often get surprised by some “low graders” who later become successful in life. Grades or marks would be a great predictor of our future performance if the reality was invariant. The success of low graders is based on a simple fact, our education is conservative, and ideas often get into classrooms long after the general public. The knowledge has to be packaged in journals and books. By the time the “new” ideas reach the classroom, they are outdated or out of fashion. And loudly, you can’t make money out of tired old ideas. That is why connectivity to internet in schools is a great idea. Do teachers use it? Does the curriculum allow? In research, we discourage use of newspapers as sources despite their currency. Yet most ground-breaking ideas are first reported

 The Paris Club of international creditors said on Monday it had accepted a request from Kenya for a debt-servicing suspension from January to the end of June. “Kenya is committed to devote the resources freed by this initiative to increase spending in order to mitigate the health, economic and social impact of the COVID19-crisis,” the Paris Club said in a statement on its website. Kenya is also committed to seeking from other bilateral official creditors debt-servicing treatment in line with the agreed terms of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) of the G20 group of rich nations and big emerging powers, the creditors added in their statement. Kenya changed its mind about the G20 coronavirus debt relief initiative after declining to join earlier in 2020, and Finance Minister Finance Minister Ukur Yatani said in November that it was planning to defer around $690 million in debt payments. Joining the arrangement was important, Yatani said then, as it will help open d

  Kenya’s  health  minister says the country is expected to start receiving 24 million doses next month of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, as countries in sub-Saharan Africa begin to announce progress in obtaining the desperately needed  vaccines . Mutahi Kagwe on Wednesday said  health  workers and teachers will have priority for vaccinations in East Africa’s economic hub and that the shots will be voluntary. The doses are being obtained through the COVAX facility meant to ensure  vaccines  for lower-income countries, Dr. Patrick Amoth, director general of public health, told The Associated Press. Kenya has been participating in a small-scale trial of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which requires two doses administered weeks apart. The vaccine can be stored at what AstraZeneca has called “normal refrigerated conditions,” which is expected to help in parts of the African continent where poor infrastructure will challenge the mass rollout o

  The Mombasa government has lifted the initial order that had axed 86 doctors for failing to report to work. This follows a fruitful discussion between Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Council officials and those from the county government of Mombasa. A statement from KMPDC CEO Daniel Yumbya on Thursday said that the aim of the discussion is to ensure that there is "immediate resolution of the ongoing matter to ensure that delivery of quality healthcare is not affected. Following the discussion, the two parties agreed that: Any doctor who will resume working immediately shall not be victimised nor face any disciplinary action. Doctors who were affected have been asked to report to their various work station immediately. "Any doctor who reports to work immediately shall not be victimised nor face any disciplinary action. In this regard, we appeal to the affected doctors to report to work immediately, " Yumbya said. KMPDU Acting secretary general Chib

  Egypt said on Wednesday that the United Arab Emirates has joined the Cairo-based Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum as an observer. Egypt, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Jordan established the EastMed Gas Forum (EMGF) as an intergovernmental organization in a virtual ceremony hosted by Cairo in September. The Palestinian Authority is also part of the forum. France has applied to join, with the United States and European Union requesting observer status