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On 21st September 2013 during the Westgate terror attack, a Recce squad officer was shot down by an army officer during a rescue operation in the mall. The incident historically doubles as one of the most failed inter- agency operations by security agencies in Kenya. The occurrence led to the
Read MoreThe Inspector General of police Joseph Boinnet has now put on notice all Kenyans sharing images of the ongoing attack at Duisit Complex along 14 Riverside Drive in Nairobi. According to Boinnet, sharing the images of the attack on social media is one way of aiding the attackers in perpetuating the
Read MoreSecurity officers in Nairobi were on Tuesday afternoon battling armed assailants who staged an attack at 14 Riverside Drive in Dusit Complex, Westlands area in Nairobi. Addressing journalists amid the attack, Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said, that attackers are still holed up in unidentified room in the complex. According
Read MoreDear world, Receive my humble salutations. I come bearing good or bad news, depends on how you’re willing to take them. The millennials are kind of fed up with your judgments. We appreciate the generations that came before us: especially, those who fought for our soul food; freedom. We are quite
Read MoreThe glossy black Land Rover Discovery barrels down the highway with a hum towards the city, effortlessly taking on the seemingly endless stretch of asphalt. It's been a long journey but it's about to come to an end. Jalang'o, born Phelix Odiwuor, sits comfortably in the driver's seat, one hand
Read MoreI’ve read stories, watched movies and sat at the feet of historians. The tales of how our forefathers fought our independence as a continent reflect the true nature of Africans. Brave. Brawn. Brains. Yet after many years of our purported independence, nay, neocolonialism, we have not been able to open our borders
Read MoreMobile Journalism Africa welcomes you to the year 2019. Mobile devices are revolutionizing storytelling. Journalists and trained communication experts are using them to tell stories from different locations at different times altogether. These devices, we choose to call Pocket Studios,are the new way of doing stories. For modern-day storytellers like us it is a
Read MoreAny better description of the post-independence Kenya would only come close to Richard Ntiru’s description of the contemporary society in his classical poem, Introduction, that ‘Society is a market stall/And men goods on display/ Where the label is more important than the labelled/ And the price more fascinating than value’.
Read MoreThere is a great innovation that is currently revolutionizing agribusiness with an aim of helping achieve food security. Just like every other institution is now speaking of aligning its activities to Jubilee Government's Big Four Agenda one of which is food security, IcedTube is (in an additional bid to achieve
Read MoreThere is massive confusion and outcry among citizens in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi after the local government banned the operation of ‘matatus’ in the central business district. The ban effected on Monday, the third, 2018 by the Nairobi County Council comes a month barely after the transport ministry in the
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