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FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Maurice Oloo tends to his sukuma wiki farm at Gwassi in Homa Bay county on February 12, 2020. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
Thirty Kenyans have been selected to join the inaugural cohort of a prestigious international fellowship of thought leaders advocating food security, equitable access to markets and sustainable agriculture in Africa.
The African Food Systems Leadership Programme was launched yesterday at a virtual ceremony in Nairobi and Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands.
The fellowship programme targets emerging leaders from the private, public and civic sectors to shape the ambitions, agenda and market dynamics that are needed to transform Africa’s food systems, and ensure availability and access to healthy and sustainable food for all.
THE STANDARD
NATIONAL
James Hayes Saddler. [Courtesy]
The carriage, drawn by a thoroughbred horse, signifies power and tells the story of a century gone by. At the time Kenya had not been conceived as a country and was being governed as a protectorate by the Imperial British. The coachman, in the vintage garb, ensured that his highness, James Hayes Saddler, arrived at Government House in Mombasa (what is now State House) without any hitches.
Saddler was then president of the parchment known as East African Protectorate when this picture was taken in March 1906. He was about three months old as a governor, having been appointed on December 12, 1905. His successor, Donald William Stewart, had died in office on October 1, 1905. Ironically, he died 19 days before the man who had rebelled against the mighty Britain and derailed their pet project, the construction of the railway for the Lunatic Express, had been treacherously killed.
THE STANDARD
POLITICS
National Assembly Minority Leader John Mbadi at parliament buildings on April 27, 2021. [Elvis Ogina]
Just hours to the crucial deliberation on BBI bill in Parliament, ODM is whipping its members to support the proposed law in its entirety.
This is after it emerged that a section of the pact members who sat in the joint committee on Legal and Justice Affairs proposed some changes including the how-to anchor the controversial schedule of the 70 constituencies in law.
ODM Chairman John Mbadi in a statement to newsrooms stressed on the importance to pass the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment), Bill 2020 spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta and party leader Raila Odinga.