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By Bozo Jenje The Sport shooters representing Kenya team and various gun clubs held their First IDPA Tier 3 International shooting competition at the BRC Bamburi Rifle Club on the 3rd and 4th February 2023. The event attracted competitors from all over Kenya with a count of 133 shooters drawn from various clubs and discipline forces. Kenya’s Finest Master shooter Ibrahim Ndungu emerged the overall winner of the international defensive pistol association championship. Ndungu’s accuracy, flexibility and speed ensured him garner 183.49 points to continue his dominance in shooting within the country at the start of shooting competition this season.…

Johnson Chengo Environmental activist in Kilifi County has faulted the decision by the state and County government of Kilifi that allowed the approoting and exporting of baobab trees to foreign countries. Gro With Us founder, Kelly Banda referred to the trend as biopiracy, citing that it has a negative impact on the environment, especially Kilifi which is already grappling with severe drought. He spoke in Kidungu village after planting more than 5000 Mangrove seedlings. It is not clear why the buyers only target the mature trees instead of the seedlings and why the two arms of government rushed into issuing…

Over 500 farmers from Bahari and Witu wards in Lamu County have benefitted from 21 freezers and over 500 bucks and heifers. The Lamu county initiative in partnership with World Bank-funded Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture program support to farmers from 38 interest groups is meant to boost dairy and fish farming across the county. Addressing the farmer group members during the distribution exercise, Lamu County C.E.C.M for Agriculture James Gichu said that the smallholder livestock beneficiary groups, received the heifers, bucks and freezers following a training to equip them with skills on successful dairy and fish farming organized by the…

Thirteen Self-help groups of people living with disabilities (PWD’s) from Mpeketoni in Lamu County have undergone a financial literacy training. The training that was organized by Muslims Women Advancement for Rights and Protection organization (MWARP) is aimed to equip the PWDs with knowledge on how to understand and carry out their financial responsibilities. “We also want the PWDs to take fully charge of their financial future”, said MWARP Programs Officer James Chapa. MWARP believes that people with disabilities should be in charge of their businesses to be financially independent to the degree to which they are capable according to the…

By reporter Kwale county’s health sector to get a major boost following plans by AMREF AFRICA in partnership with the national government to set up a state-of-the-art oxygen plant in the county. The sh 99.065 million project will be constructed at the Lunga-Lunga sub-county hospital where it will serve other county health facilities. The Pressurized Swing Absorption oxygen plant will be the biggest oxygen-generating machine in the region. The county will be supplied with 250 oxygen cylinders, splitters and the installation of manifold and piping to the sub-county health facilities of Samburu, Lunga Lunga and Tiwi Rural Hospital in Matuga.…

President William Ruto has sent parking former president Uhuru Kenyatta appointee at the Coast Water Board that has changed to Coast Water Works Development Agency politician Omar Boga. Ruto replaced Boga with Daniel Katama Mwaringa as the chairperson of the Board of directors of the Coast Water Works Development Agency. Others whose term ended prematurely include Husein Ahmed Farah,Rehana Ismail,Abdul Timimi and Joseph Charo Kambi. Their terms were supposed to end by February 26 2023 when they were appointed by former president Uhuru Kenyatta. In a Gazette notice dated 1 February 2023 also appointed Hafswa Abdalla Dele,Judith Wabosha Mwamburi and…

Residents in Kilifi County should prioritize Mangrove tree planting to improve the economy and address the effects of climate change, Grow with us founder Kelly Banda has said. He also urged environmental defenders to be on the forefront in planting the indeginous trees because they are sources of income through agriculture, and prevent environmental degradation. Banda said the initiative is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and President William Ruto’s Agenda to increase forest cover by 10 per cent. He spoke to the residents after planting more than 10,000 Mangroves seedling in Nzombere -Kidundu in Kilifi North Constituency. Already…

By Coast Times Reporter Barke Mahsen, a girl from Matuga Girls High School, has ended a six-year ‘dry spell’ of Grade A in Kwale County in the just released KCSE examinations. The last time Kwale County produced an A was in 2016 by a boy from Kwale High. Mahsen’s school of Matuga, which is also a national girls’ school, last produced an A in 2013. Mahsen had an A of 81 points making her the best student in the entire county. Mahsen was just doing her normal home chores in Malindi when the 2022 KCSE results were released by Education…

Kwale Non-Government organization, Muslims Women Advancement of Rights and Protection has launched a three-year program to help initiate and oversight the implementation of county development projects. The program has brought together various Civil Society and Rights organizations across the county to strengthen unity in the oversight roles and development. It is supported by Amkeni Kenya through the sponsorship of the United Nations Development Programme. MWARP officer Fahad Changi said they target to strengthen civil society and the community voices in policy-making through an inclusive platform for public participation and civic engagement. Changi said the program will take the CSOs and…

People living with disabilities in Lamu County have been urged to come out in large numbers and register as self-help groups or community based organisations to benefit from the disability funds. Through a program ‘Kuboresha Uthabiti wa Jamii Initiative’ funded by the European Union through the Aghakhan Foundation and implemented by Muslim Women Advancement for Rights and Protection organization (MWARP) held in Lamu town that brought together 8 groups of disabled from the county with the aim of teaching them on matters business and finance management. It wae revealed that parents are still hiding their disabled children at home. Rukia…