Promoting Africa
Among the sustainable development goals (SDGs), goal number three is to promote and ensure good health and well being of people of all ages by promoting preventive and curative or generally provision and access to universal healthcare. In line with this SDG, focusing on health, actions are encouraged to foster public health, including different actions,…
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On Thursday, October 24, 2019, evening, through a press release signed by the Chairman of the board, the board of directors of Safaricom PLC confirmed that it had settled for Mr. Peter Ndegwa, a technocrat with more than 25 years’ experience in various business areas, as the CEO to take office from April 1, 2020.…
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In the days leading up to the Ineos 159 challenge in Vienna, the social media was awash with scientific demonstrations of how it was virtually impossible for one Eliud Kipchoge, the man who set the World Marathon record in Berlin at 2:01:39 in the 2018 Berlin Marathon, to run a sub-two hour marathon. The arguments…
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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge made athletics history in Austria on Saturday as he became the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, passing a milestone few thought could be reached for decades if at all. "Kipchoge tore up the specially tailored course over 4.4 laps of the Prater Hauptallee, a park in central…
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Kenya’s first human milk bank has opened at Pumwani Maternity Hospital. "Pumwani Maternity Hospital was selected as the site for the pilot human milk bank due to the number of vulnerable neonates in need" (Mike Mbuvi, governor of Nairobi City County). Nairobi’s neonatal deaths (deaths during the first 28 days of life), is the highest…
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Lupita Nyong’o, the Kenya Black Panther movie star shared details on a new project she had been working on, and was so proud about, a children's book called Sulwe. Sulwe, which means "Star" in the Kenyan Luo language, is a new children’s book aiming at encouraging kids to love themselves. Sulwe tells the story of…
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On Sunday March 24, Kenyan Science teacher Peter Tabichi won the 2019 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, as a recognition for his contribution to his school in Nakuru Kenya. Beating 10,000 other nominees from 179 countries, Peter Tabichi was awarded a $1 million prize for the world's best teacher. He is known for giving away…
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