Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen on Tuesday, July 4, announced that school buses and public transport vehicles will be required to install dashboard cameras and vehicle telematics in new regulations proposed to curb the rise of road accidents in the country. Speaking in Kericho County the CS said “Telematics will have a GPS system showing where a […]
At least 350 children drawn from all 47 counties have converged in Kiambu County for the Children Devolution Conference. The five days event being held at M-PESA Foundation Academy in Thika Town aims to provide a platform where children will air their opinions on matters children. The event under the theme Empowering Young Voices. A […]
The 2022 Kenya Demographic Health Survey has revealed that the number of births delivered in hospitals has increased from 65 percent in 2014 to 88 percent in 2022. Further, the survey shows the national fertility rate has declined from 4.9 percent in 2003 to 3.4 percent in 2022 with Mandera County with the highest at […]
Global Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, is set to deploy a six-in-one vaccine to lower-income countries like Kenya with the aim of establishing innovative mechanisms to protect against future epidemic threats. This vaccine aimed to be administered to infants is a combination of the pentavalent vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B and […]
71 UN member states have signed a call to action statement aimed at proactively removing and combating child sexual exploitation and abuse material online. This comes at a time when online child sexual exploitation and abuse continue to rise at exponential rates across the world and increasingly involve younger children. In the Internet Watch Foundation Annual […]
Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) has proposed the increment of capitation from the current figure of Sh22,244 to Sh30,000 per student. This was proposed by the Association’s chairman Kahi Indimuli during the annual conference of school heads in Mombasa. This, he said, is due to the recent increase in commodity prices and late disbursement of […]
Secondary School students will not be able to transfer to other public schools mid-year after the government banned the same. Supporting this directive, the Director of Secondary Education Paul Kibet said that transferring a student mid-year makes it hard for school principals to reconcile the amount of fee to be paid. He added that some […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new package of measures, the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED), to monitor the development of young children at population level up to three years of age. This, the organization says, will allow for a comprehensive assessment of the development of young children up to 36 months of […]
A 17 year- old boy has died in Nyamira County after being beaten by his sibling and parents over missing sh 50. According to police, the incident occurred in Iganeitambe village after the deceased’s elder brother reported his Sh50 was missing and the suspect was his younger brother. This led the brother to start a […]
The Chief Justice of Kenya Hon Martha Koome has today launched the Child Justice and SGBV Strategy and Convicted Sexual Offenders Electronic Register at Kibera law Courts Nairobi. The initiatives are on spar with the strategic focus of the judiciary to transform systems into people centered one that upholds the dignity and rights of especially […]