UNICEF has launched the world’s first-period tracker app for girls, Co-created with girls in Kenya. This Oky-Kenya app aims to help girls take control of their periods and their lives by providing information about menstruation in a fun, creative and positive way. The app, which first went live on the Google play store on March […]
More than 30 schools damaged during banditry in Kerio Valley in Rift Valley will be rebuilt by Kenya Defense Forces after President William Ruto gave this directive. This comes after the government’s initiative to restore peace in the region in the ongoing operations in an area experiencing banditry activities. The president directed that Sh100 million […]
To help health workers in nomad communities effectively track pregnant mothers and infants, a hybrid GPS tracker innovation is in the works. The tracker is an innovation by Dahabo Adi Galgalo, a trained medical laboratory technologist-cum-epidemiologist from Marsabit County, alongside engineering experts as reported by Nation. The innovation is expected to help healthcare workers reach […]
Over 450,000 children in Sudan have been displaced internally and externally in the ongoing violence occasioned by rival military forces. According to UNICEF, an estimated 82,000 children have fled to neighboring countries and approximately 368,000 more are displaced inside the country. In addition, at least nine children have reportedly been killed and more than 50 […]
A Form Four student at Faza Secondary School in Lamu died yesterday after being stabbed by a Form Three student during break time. Reports indicate that the 18-year-old was stabbed with a knife after the two were involved in a fight fatally injuring the victim. The suspect is a 17-year-old student at the same school […]
Recent statistics show that an estimated 13.4 million babies were born pre-term in 2020, with nearly 1 million dying from preterm complications.in addition, at least 152 million vulnerable babies were born too soon from 2010 to 2020 This is equivalent to around 1 in 10 babies born early worldwide according to a new report released […]
In an aim to reduce anemia among children and women, World Health Organization has launched a new framework to half its prevalence by 2050. Taking a different path from the previous work-frames, the new framework will tackle the direct causes, risk factors, and broad social inequities that are fundamental drivers of anemia rather than focusing […]
A recent report indicates that Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two-thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years. Category A abuse, the extreme category, represented 20 percent of illegal images discovered online last year according […]
Sixty percent of bodies being exhumed in Shakahola forest are those of children a report privy to our newsroom indicates. This was echoed by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki three weeks ago when he visited the crime scene in Kilifi County. Currently, 133 bodies have been exhumed as the government embarks on the second phase […]
A 16-year-old boy from North Carolina in the USA was severely disfigured, with burns covering nearly 80 percent of his body after he participated in a dangerous Tik Tok challenge. The New York Post reported. The latest TikTok trend sees users trying to make the blowtorch using a lighter and a spray can. According to his family […]