The East Africa Community has developed a mobile application to ease traffic congestion across the East Africa border points. The application has a tracking system for surveillance to monitor long…
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and Dr Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, held an inaugural meeting of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation…
The National Treasury and Planning has launched the virtual launch of budget preparation process for the Financial Year 2021/22 and the Medium-Term Budget to the public. The launch will officially…
Kenya on Friday recorded 190 new cases of the coronavirus, rising the total number of confirmed cases to 35,793. In a statement, the country’s health ministry also revealed that a…
The first-ever locally manufactured ventilator developed by Kenya Association of Manufacturers’ (KAM) Automotive Sector, led by Mutsimoto Limited, was yesterday certified by Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). The ventilator, dubbed Pumuaishi 3.0, was unveiled in…
The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors has approved $27.33 million in grants to boost the African Union’s (AU) efforts to mobilize a continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Kenya has recorded 104 new COVID-19 cases taking the country’s caseload to 35, 460 cases. Health Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman says the new cases were identified from 2, 285…
Low- and middle-income countries could soon leapfrog high-income countries in their adoption of new AI-enabled technologies in health, suggests a report led by the Novartis Foundation and Microsoft. Technologies such…
Ethiopia has confirmed stalling its general elections by at least nine months, citing the risks posed by Covid-19. General elections were supposed to be held in Ethiopia on 29 August 2020 to elect…
Kenya’s Ministry of Health says the country still has a long way to go despite a decrease in confirmed cases in the last few days. Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman…