UNDP donates robots to help Kenya’s Covid-19 fight
Friday January 22 2021
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe receives three robots from UNDP Kenya that will help the government to fight Covid-19 with a Sh240 million funding from the government of Japan in a handover ceremony in Nairobi on January 22, 2021. PHOTO | BRIAN AMBANI | NMG
By BRIAN AMBANI
The robots, which were made by Chinese robotics company UBtech, have been named Jasiri, Shujaa and Tumaini.
The robots will record audio and video data and notify the manning authorities on anomalies.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Friday received three pilot smart “anti-epidemic” robots from the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) Kenya to support the government’s mitigation measures against the Covid-19 pandemic.
CS Balala Letter Forces UN Agency to Apologise
14 January 2021 - 3:24 pm
Tourism CS Najib Balala speaking during the launch of the Tourism and Travel, Health and Safety Protocols on July 1, 2020.
The United Nation Development Program (UNDP) has responded to concerns raised by Tourism CS Najib Balala over an advertisement it ran in the local dailies.
The published notice included a section that implied a call for proposal by UNDP would allow participants to consume endangered wildlife.
As a result, The East African Wildlife Society Executive Director Nancy Ogonje wrote a protest letter to Balala who in turn sought clarification from UNDP.
United Nations re-affirms support for Africa s conservation efforts By Otiato Opali in Nairobi, Kenya | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-14 20:49 A view of the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon. [Photo/Xinhua]
The United Nations has reiterated it will continue to partner with Kenya and other African countries in their efforts to conserve natural resources and ease pressures on the planet.
This was revealed by Walid Badawi, the resident representative at UNDP Kenya, on Wednesday at the unveiling of the UN s annual Human Development Report 2020 titled The next frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene . The report analyses how humans impact the planet and how that interacts with existing inequalities.
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