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By Lamu Reporter Issues of drug abuse, joblessness and mental stress have been named as some of the reasons behind increased cases of sexual and gender based violence in Lamu County. Cases of sexual abuse against young girls are said to be increasing o an alarming rate in the main land within Hindi location in Lamu, with stakeholders raising a red flag on the matter. Speaking in Lamu, the director of Lamu Women Alliance (LAWA) Raya Famau, said that most girls have been abused by their parents. Lamu Women Alliance is a consortium of 11 locally women organizations in Lamu,…

A seventeen years old boy  Emmanuel Chiringa from Mwele village Rabai Kisurutini ward Kilifi is looking forward a well- wishers to assist him get treatment for his shoulder which started swelling after receiving a Coronavirus vaccines. He has been forced to discontinue learning. 0720419707

By Johnston Chengo St Thomas Girls High School in Kilifi Town will represent Kenya in the Pan Africa Debate Competition to be held in South Africa this month. Girls from the school’s Amani Club secured the chance after winning the inaugural Mwalimu Nyerere Schools invitational debate championship of East Africa in Dar-es-Salaam. In the East Africa debating competition, Ribe Boys, Musoli Girls, St. Thomas Girls, Mukumu Boys, Marereni Mixed Secondary and Sigalame Boys represented Kenya. They represented the country in various categories ranging from Debating, public speaking and Essay writing. Students tackled topics including peace, East Africa integration and regional…

By Cicilia Nelima Serving Our Community…That was the slogan that Base Titanium was using while launching the Community Youth Skills Training program targeting villages where Base has its operations. When the mining company launched the program mid this year, the aim was to offer the youth an opportunity to gain valuable knowledge of various technical trades and skillsets for them to be productive in society. The first cohort to benefit from the program were 55 youth from 11 villages neighbouring the Kwale mine. Agnes Mwaka, one of the youths who benefitted from the project said that she is optimistic that…

By Our Reporter Mombasa county governor Abdulswamad Sharif Nassir has said that delay in salaries payment for health workers in the area is due to delayed disbursement of funds from the the national treasury. The governor said that he is initiating programs with different financial institutions to ensure in future county workers are paid even if the national treasury delays. This, he said will be to ensure facilitation of service delivery to citizens. “I am working out in my 100 days in office to have agreements with finance institutions so that county staff can be paid even if the national treasury delays payment. We…

By Coast Times Reporter A group of women welcome us gently as we arrive at Jackson Ndurya’s farm located in Kinondo village in the outskirts of Msambweni in Kwale County. As we are ushered into the vast compound, we notice that some students which we later learn have come for an agricultural field day to learn the practical skills of farming. Mr. Ndurya is a man on a mission. His aim… to transform the lives of the community in Kwale through agriculture. As the Chairman of one of the largest marketing co-operative societies in Kwale (PAVI Co-operative, an acronym for…

By Johnson Chengo In addressing the adverse effects of drought and hunger currently ravaging a big part of Kilifi County, the county government in conjunction with several partners has started a relief distribution exercise to the most affected region of Ganze constituency. Deputy Governor Flora Chibule in the company of donors from Mombasa Cement, The International Association of Lions Club District 411A and the Premchandbhai Foundation donated food stuffs and solar powered lamps to residents of Dodosa in Ndigiria location. The food stuff included maize flour, peas among other consignments in aid of over 600 families. The county government dispatched…

By Coast Times Reporter Four people have been admitted at the King Fahd Referral Hospital in Lamu County after being attacked with knives and pangas. In the first incident, three members of the same family, including two men aged 23 and 21 and their mother, are nursing serious injuries after being cut with a panga by two boys who live in the same neighborhood at Kandahari village of Lamu town. It is alleged the attackers were in a revenge mission. The attackers, while armed with pangas, invaded the home of the three and slashed them, leaving them with serious injuries in their hands. In the…

By Coast Times Reporter Fihoni is a calm and quiet village in Kwale County sandwiched between Gogoni and Buda Forests. Deep in the village,14 years Enock Mweni is championing environmental conservation in efforts to mitigate climate change as well as increasing forest cover. The class seven pupil at Fihoni primary school has planted over 1400 tree seedlings of different species. This is hard work that was inspired by an environmental program carried out by mining company Base Titanium. Base Titanium has been running the Schools Environmental and Social Education Program (SESEP), a module that has been in existence for four years targeting students in Primary and secondary…

By Coast Times Digital Team Lamu cultural festival is one of the world’s most famous Cultural festivals to be held at a UNESCO world heritage city attracting both domestic and foreign tourists. “Don’t ever plan to go to Lamu abruptly without planning during the Lamu cultural festival because you will have nowhere to spend your night, all hotels are always fully booked during that period,” said Kwale resident Aziz Vumbi, who visits Pate Island frequently. This year’s 20th edition of the Lamu cultural festival was hailed as the best after it was heavily attended. It returned after a two-year break occasioned by the coronavirus…