By Iminza Keboge Published September 29, 209 Did you know that you can become a globetrotter if you are a bonafide student? Let’s Go Travel, a Nairobi-based tour and travel operations company that handles air ticket booking, says Students flying…
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By Abdi Ali Published September 10, 2019 Sport has ‘unparalleled potential’ to boost equality and peace. Patricia Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, says the wide appeal and reach of sport can be used to accelerate progress in areas such…
By Commonwealth Secretariat Published August 29, 2019 Nominations have opened for the 2020 Commonwealth Youth Awards which will see winners awarded a cash grant to scale-up development work benefiting their communities. The Commonwealth Youth Awards recognise the exemplary work undertaken…
By Irene Gaitirira Published August 27, 2019 Security threats to mobile devices are on the rise. A cybersecurity company called Kaspersky says that unsecured Wi-Fi connections, network spoofing, phishing attacks, ransomware, spyware, improper session handling and ever growing number of…
By Irene Gaitirira Published July 28, 2019 Kenya Airways has increased the frequency of flights from Nairobi to Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Kigali and Juba. Kenya Airways says this is to meet higher demand in the East African regional tourist destinations…
By Iminza Keboge Published July 19, 2019 A 26-year-old mid-wife has won the BBC News Somali Young Female Poet 2019 award. Kaltun Nasir Hussein, from Bur’o in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, becomes the third person to win the award…
By Abdi Ali Published July 15, 2019 Without effective policies and investments millions of youth around the globe face a bleak future. RELATED: United World Colleges Opens School in East Africa A report by United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development…
By Iminza Keboge Published June 21, 2019 Five Africans are among 15 individuals from around the world who have received prizes for their efforts in development. Each recipient of the Commonwealth’s Innovation for Sustainable Development Awards received a trophy, a…
By Iminza Keboge Published May 31, 2019 Leading African festivals dedicated to animation and comic programming have announced joint programming with effect from 2020. RELATED: Documenting Animation, Comics, Cartoons and Video Games in Africa No Easy Task Cape Town International Animation…
By Iminza Keboge Published May 29, 2019 A United Nations agency has announced the launch of a global dance challenge as a clarion call for creating opportunities for youth in rural areas of some of the world’s poorest countries. Through…