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22/01/2025

The Kenyan government has announced plans to review the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) a year after its launch.

A cabinet meeting in Kakamega on Tuesday, January 21, agreed to exempt all African countries but two from ETA requirements, citing the need to promote tourism and regional integration.

The two countries that haven't been whitelisted for ETA instant approvals are Somalia and Libya, with security concerns being cited.

Renowned Kenyan environmentalist Wanjira Mathai has won the Sunhak Peace Prize 2025.Mathai is among four laureates to be...
20/01/2025

Renowned Kenyan environmentalist Wanjira Mathai has won the Sunhak Peace Prize 2025.

Mathai is among four laureates to be named for the prestigious award given to 'innovators who have driven tangible change through action, solidarity, sustainability and innovation.'

The other three are Patrick Awuah Jr of Ghana and founder of Ashesi University, Hugh Evans, the founder of Global Citizens, and Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao who offered a new model of cooperation and reconciliation among conflict-affected nations through East Timor's independence and the founding of g7+.

The 6th Sunhak Peace Prize Award ceremony will take place on April 11, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea.

13/01/2025

Kenya topped African funding in 2024. The funding however dropped slightly compared to 2023.

Here's the list of how different countries attracted venture capital funding in Africa last year:

1. KENYA - $638 million
2. NIGERIA - $410 million
3. EGYPT - $400 million
4. SOUTH AFRICA - $394 million
5. MOROCCO - $70 million
6. GHANA - $68 million
7. TANZANIA - $53 million
8. BENIN - $50 million
9. IVORY COAST - $33 million
10. SENEGAL - $22 million
11. UGANDA - $19 million

Source: Africa: The Big Deal

09/01/2025

Meta is getting rid of fact-checkers on Facebook. Instead, it will adopt an approach similar to X (Twitter's) Community Notes.

07/01/2025

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has resigned.

05/01/2025

The Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Ammendment) Bill 2024 seeks to enable Africans in the diaspora but with Kenyan roots to acquire Citizenship through an expedited process.

Apart from acquisition of Citizenship by birth, registration and naturalisation as currently provided for in law, the Bill seeks to I produce a fourth category: Citizenship by ancestry.

The Bill is sponsored by Suba South MP Caroli Omondi.

05/01/2025

Jeff Bezos is preparing to launch a satellite broadband service in Britain in a boost to his challenge to rival space rocket billionaire Elon Musk.

Amazon’s satellite division Kuiper is also courting British defence officials as it targets military contracts

05/01/2025

Below are the top 10 African countries leading in private sector investments as of 2024:

1. South Africa - $5.07 billion
2. Nigeria - $3.96 billion
3. Egypt - $3.37 billion
4. Ethiopia - $2.29 billion
5. Cote D'Ivoire - $2.18 billion
6. Kenya - $1.7 billion
7. Guinea - $1.5 billion
8. Mozambique - $1.32 billion
9. Morocco - $0.87 billion
10. Cameroon - $0.8 billion

Source: Business Insider Africa.

05/01/2025

Germany's Foreign Ministry has launched a new digital platform for visa applications.

The new portal is available since January 1, 2025 to all 167 of Germany's visa offices all over the world.

The digital portal aims to ease access to necessary documents for those wanting to work, study or join their family in Germany.

The applicants can choose between 28 categories of national visa online.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced this in a press release hailing it as "a real administrative revolution".

"Every year, Germany is short of at least 400,000 skilled workers," Baerbock said.

05/01/2025

In 2023, trade between Thailand and Kenya reached $256.16 million, with Thai exports like cars, sugar, and rice totaling $226.82 million, while imports from Kenya to Thailand, including chemicals and jewelry, were valued at $29.34 million.

No More Google MapsGoogle has been forced to remove its Maps functionality from its search results in the European Union...
05/01/2025

No More Google Maps

Google has been forced to remove its Maps functionality from its search results in the European Union (EU) areas.

The EU’s decision to enforce these changes stems from concerns about unfair competition.

The EU inteiduced the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulation to challenge the dominance of major tech companies and level the playing field.

The aim was to give users more choice and control over the digital services they rely on.

Google, the worlds biggest search engine, has integrated some of its services like Maps, Calendar, and Docs within its search results making sure users dont leave its platform.

Hiwever, this has been criticized as stifling competition.

Users in the EU now can see the Maps tab which used to appear alongside other tabs such as Images, News, Videos etc. They have to do further navigation to access the Maps, making it a little more frustrating and they will need time to adjust.

In the USA, Google has been facing another hurdle with pressure from regulators to make Chrome a separate company.

04/01/2025

Kenya has notified India of a compensation demand over the 500 kilogramme ring that fell in Makueni County from the India Space Research Organisation’s Docking Experiment, Spadex.

The metallic ring, measuring about approximately 2.5 meters in diameter and weighing about 500 kilogrammes, was red hot when it landed, according to Nduluku Chief James Mateng’e who was among the first people to respond to the incident.

"Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they re-enter the earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans. This is an isolated case, which the agency will investigate and address using the established framework under the International Space law,” Kenya Space Agency.

04/01/2025

Last week China announced that it is building the world's largest dam in Tibet - even larger than the Three Gorges Dam, which according to NASA, has slowed the Earth's rotation by 0.06 seconds. But unlike that one, which is built in central China, the new one will be built in an environmentally-sensitive Himalayan zone in Tibet, very close to the border with India.
New Delhi responded today, saying India will "protect its interests".

Source: NDTV

04/01/2025

Technical University of Mombasa students have threatened to start protests if the Kenyan government does not release abductees on 24 hours.

04/01/2025

Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails and even lie in chats with humans.

The company said its rectifying a bug.

Ir appears some of the bots have been in existence for two years

03/01/2025

Kenya's Attorney General Dorcas Oduor has said her office cannot go against the interests of the government. The statement came hours after advocacy groups called on her to forward cases of abductions to the ICC.

03/01/2025

This year 2025, borrow from NIKE: Just Do It!

03/01/2025

Research company Gartner projects that by the end of 2025, 30% of generative AI projects could end up abandoned because there isn't a clear payoff from all those ambitious initiatives.

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